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Israel’s Ministry of Finance has retained Weber Shandwick to provide institutional investor relations support services connected to the issuance of international debt offerings.
The Omnicom unit may also conduct other PR and communications services as agreed by both parties. It will bill the MOF a fee based on time spent on the project.
Ben Branham, Weber Shandwick ’s executive VP-corporate reputation, leads the effort.
Prior to joining Weber Shandwick, Branham was executive VP & chief strategy officer at the New York City Economic Development Corp, under mayors Michael Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio.
He also was chief communications officer at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, and executive VP-corporate & public affairs at Edelman.
Weber Shandwick’s contract includes an artificial intelligence clause in which it “agrees not to upload or disclose any of client's confidential information or other data to any artificial intelligence tool, application, model, algorithm, or other system, including those that generate content, texts, images and/or multimedia ("Tool"), without client's prior written consent.”
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Kuwait has hired Mercury Public Affairs to handle strategic communications in connection with the Oct. 24 dedication of the Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm Memorial in Washington.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky has sanctioned his former press secretary Iuliia Mendel for allegedly promoting Russian propaganda.
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.
