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RF Binder Partners has picked up a $360K pact to handle US media relations for the Qatar Foundation. The one-year effort runs through April 2021.
The independent firm will focus on QF's goals of furthering education, research and community development. It will promote newsworthy events and develop themes for op-ed and bylined articles by QF's leadership.
Founded in 1995, QF is currently pushing a "Qatar Reads" program to highlight the benefits of reading while in isolation during the coronavirus pandemic.
CEO Amy Binder and executive managing director Bill McBride lead RF Binder's 10-member QF team.
RF Binder is working as a subcontractor for Memac Ogilvy & Mather, which is part of WPP. Previously, Ogilvy New York handled QF's US PR.
Since 2017, Qatar has been under a political and economic blockade erected by Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt for its alleged support of terrorism and cozy ties with Iran.
Gabriel Attal, who heads France’s Renaissance Partie, is relying on Gabriel Laurent Eshaghian, a Woodland Hills, CA-based real estate, aviation and investment executive, to boost his profile in the US ahead of France’s April 2027 elections.
TSG Advocates has inked a $240K one-year pact to provide PA and government relations services to the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency.
KARV is providing strategic communications to the American-Uzbek Business and Investment Council to promote US economic ties with the central Asian country.
Bethesda-based Tricuro has signed on South Korea for strategic communications support, messaging development, and media outreach related to US-Korea economic relations.
Ballard Partners has signed on to represent Turkiye’s Ministry of National Defense on matters regarding security issues related to the U.S.
