Emmanuel Tchividjian, chief ethics officer at Ruder Finn, has earned the annual President's Award for his outstanding contributions to PRSA's New York chapter. He will receive the honor at the chapter's Big Apple Awards gala ceremony slated for May 23.
Tchividjian, who is senior-VP, executive director & chief ethics officer at RF, joined the independent firm in 1997. He has been working with the Government of Switzerland regarding Holocaust-related issues.
Lea-Ann Germinder, chapter president, said in a statement that Tchividjian is the "embodiment of dignity and volunteerism and serves as a role model for PR practitioners."
The RF exec is a former president of the PRSA group and currently its ethics chair. He’s certified as a compliance & ethics professional from the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics and is a member of the Ethics & Compliance Officers Association.
PRSA-NY also announced that Paul Gennaro, senior VP-corporate communications at AECOM, won the John W. Hill Award for leadership in the practice of PR, while David Grant, founder of LVM Group, earned the Philip Dorf Award for mentoring.
The event will be held at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Columbus Circle. David Ushery, NBC 4 New York's veteran anchor and reporter and the 2013 “Big Apple Award for Excellence in Journalism” will keynote the ceremony.
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