PA Pro Copeland Lands at APCO Worldwide
Mon, Oct. 31, 2022
By Kevin McCauley
Ami Copeland, who has more than 20 years of public affairs and political experience, has joined APCO Worldwide as PA head in its Washington, DC office.
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Ami Copeland, who has more than 20 years of public affairs and political experience, has joined APCO Worldwide as PA head in its Washington, DC office.
Americans believe that our current form of government is under threat of disappearing, yet most don’t think this threat is the biggest problem facing the country, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll.
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Ann-Nina Finne, who most recently led the public affairs teams at IKEA, is coming on board at Hill+Knowlton Strategies as senior VP for global public affairs.
The U.S. House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today held a hearing focused on PR agencies’ work for the U.S. energy sector and what impacts their messaging has had in the ongoing climate-change debate.
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Tommy Binion, VP of government relations at the Heritage Foundation, has joined OnMessage Public Strategies.
Ed Matovcik, who has more than 30 years of PA, strategy and government relations experience in the wine and spirits sector, has joined alcohol beverage marketer Constellation Brands as VP-public affairs.
Citi promotes Jennifer Lowney to global head of communications, part of an overall reorganization of the company’s global public affairs division.
David Donaldson, who was VP-external affairs & corporate communications at Birmingham-based Vulcan Materials Co., has signed on as senior advisor at Summit Strategy Group, the corporate reputation, PA and ESG advisory in Los Altos, CA.
Brian Bartlett, who served in George W. Bush’s White House and co-founded the Rational 360 shop, has joined Kekst CNC to open its Washington office and expand its PA offering.
New York Republican Congressman Tom Reed has stepped down from Congress and will join BCW’s Prime Policy Group government relations/public affairs shop next week as vice-chairman.
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BCW, H+K Strategies, VMLY&R, Group M and Kinetic are the WPP shops that donated creative content and advertising space for New York mayor Eric Adams' move to run digital billboards in Florida to denounce its “Don’t Say Gay” law and to welcome members of the LGBTQ+ community to the Big Apple.
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ExxonMobil has hired Matt Furman as VP-public and government affairs, effective April 1. He will replace Suzanne McCarron, who is retiring after a 24-year run.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reached a critical juncture as a desperate Vladimir Putin nears his breaking point as a country that he said didn't exist stymies his military adventure.
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There is a sense of terror in Moscow as Vladimir Putin has put an undeclared state of martial law into place in the aftermath of his invasion of Ukraine, according to Arkady Ostrovsky, Russian and Eastern European correspondent for The Economist.
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Former North Dakota Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp has resigned as co-chair of Actum LLC, which was launched Jan. 27 by former executives of Mercury Public Affairs.
D’Seantè Parks, who has more than a decade of PA and advocacy experience in the public, private and nonprofit sectors, has joined SKDK in New York as senior VP.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has named Jon Selib, who was senior VP of global policy & public affairs at Pfizer, managing director & global external affairs leader.
Gadi Dechter, who heads APCO Worldwide's PA unit, is heading to Princeton University, where he will take on the role of VP for communications and government affairs, effective Jan. 10.
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