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backroom boy

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Noun1.backroom boy - an expert adviser involved in making important decisions but usually lacking official status
adviser, advisor, consultant - an expert who gives advice; "an adviser helped students select their courses"; "the United States sent military advisors to Guatemala"


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The brainy backroom boy, who bagged the big one for Best Sound Mixing in Slumdog Millionaire, is enjoying every moment of his life in front of the cameras but is at the same time trying to be himself.
For example, Bona Malwal, a South Sudanese political opportunist and al-Bashir backroom boy exposed the regime's dirtiest plan against foreign nationals in Sudan by calling for their outright expulsion.
As chancellor, Brown was the ultimate backroom boy.
 
 
 
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