The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia has signed an $80K monthly contract with Harbour Group for strategic communications work and support on general policy matters and ties with the US.
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Harbour veteran Richard Minitz, who also held top posts at Brunswick Group, Burson-Marsteller and Ogilvy PR, heads the one-year contract that went into effect May 1.
He reports to Sama Al-Sadhan, deputy of the Mission.
The Saudis must approve other senior staff members on the account in advance.
Harbour has extensive communications experience in the Arab World, knowledge gained from representation of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi and Libya.
Joel Johnson, ex-senior advisor for policy & communications for President Clinton, established Harbour in 2001. He left in 2005 for Glover Park Group, which is now part of WPP.
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