Gadi Dechter, a former journalist and senior advisor for the National Security Council and National Economic Council of the Obama administration, has moved to APCO Worldwide to heads its public affairs operation in Washington.
PA is a central offering of APCO, which had revenues of $118M last year.
Dechter was director for international economics at the NSC and deputy director for the US Dept. of Commerce under Secretary Penny Pritzker over the past two years in the Obama administration.
A former reporter for the Baltimore Sun and Bloomberg News, he also did a three-year stint at the Center for American Progress as managing director for economic policy.
APCO executive chair Margery Kraus noted Dechter's "first-hand knowledge of the inner workings of government," along with his experience in the current administration as keys to his appointment.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
Public Strategies Washington has added Abbie Sorrendino, a former aide to now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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