Published By: info@eapc2011.eu. 05/23/2011
Four international experts in political communication have confirmed their participation as speakers in the 16th EAPC Conference, which will be held in Madrid from 2nd to 4th June. They are Ken Feltman, Gary Nordlinger, Bo Krogvig and Jan Juul Christensen.
Continue reading if you want to know their careers:
Ken Feltman
He is former president of International Association of Political Consultants (IAPC). He is currently the Chairman of Radnor Inc., Washington, D.C., which has affiliations with political and legislative firms in several countries. Radnor advises foreign corporations on U.S. political and legislative issues and assists U.S. businesses in coordinating business objectives with legislative and political activity. Radnor works with over 25 of the largest employers in the world. Before founding Radnor in 1985, Feltman directed lobbying and political activities for the National Association of Manufacturers. He ran successful campaigns at the Congressional level and was involved in fundraising and campaign administration for several Senate and House members, including Everett Dirksen, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
Gary Nordlinger
He is the president of Nordlinger Associates, which has provided political strategy, analysis and communication strategies for hundreds of public officials, associations, unions and corporations in 28 countries on six continents. He is an expert in the use of quantitative research for the winning design of communication strategies. He has been rated as one of the 4 best media consultants in the nation by Campaigns & Elections magazine and has won over 120 awards. Recognized expert in survey research, Nordlinger has been Sorensen Fellow of Political Leadership at University of Virginia (2004) and has also been adjunct professor at American University, George Mason University's Graduate School of Public Policy, George Washington and Florida International University. He founded the American Association of Political Consultants (ALACOP). And he has been Vice President of the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) and Director of the International Association of Political Consultants (IAPC).
Bo Krogvig
He served as director of information and campaigning in the Swedish Social Democratic party for 10 years from 1984 to 1994. Between 1994 and 1996, he was elected county council commissioner and served as a member of the government of the Stockholm province. Mr. Krogvig has served as political consultant in 36 countries on 5 continents. He has directly assisted more than twenty heads of state, prime ministers and leaders of opposition in strategy and communications. Between 1995 and 1997, he was the President of the International Association of Political Consultants (IAPC).
Jan Juul Christensen
He is today working as Managing Partner at the consultant company Rud Pedersen A/S. He has recently worked at KODA which is a Danish society that administers Danish and international copyrights for composers, songwriters and music publishers, when their musical works are performed in public. Before that Jan worked as a Senior Consultant at Radius Kommunikation and has worked with media and counselling for several years with particular emphasis on political relations. He worked as campaign manager to the former Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen in connection with his election to the European Parliament in 2004, where Nyrup gained the highest number of personal votes for any Member of the European Parliament. He has in addition been employed as head of the Social Democratic Party’s press office from 2000 to 2003 and prior to that, worked as editor of public opinion at the newspaper ‘Dagbladet Aktuelt’. He has a Master of Social Science in Public Relations from the University of Roskilde in Denmark and is the co-author of the book "Back to freedom".
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