Media relations, issues management, speechwriting, event planning, media training.

Working from clients across the NAFTA region on communications issues.

Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Boston• Media Relations Management• Speechwriting• Preparation of talking points, briefings• Event planning and management• Crisis management• Staff supervision

• Led the design and implementation of the federal government foreign communications strategy in the second half of the government’s term.• Led international crisis communications response.• Provided direction for and coordinated cross-government foreign press outreach and messaging.• Effected a significant turnaround in foreign press coverage from almost entirely negative to largely positive, helping to cement the president’s international legacy.• Led international media outreach for the president at home and during foreign trips.• Responsible for shaping the president’s international messaging in speeches and press interviews.• Represented the President’s Office in the development and implementation of A multi-million dollar public-private country branding initiative.• Set up the Mexican government’s first ever in-house international media monitoring unit to improve analysis and response to evolving press environment. Modernized analysis of coverage, boosted use of data for communications response and strategy.

• Led the relaunch of Mexico City’s only English language daily.• Established news coverage priorities.• Recruited top editors, commentators and journalists and built an effective news team. • Supervised 60 staff.• Responsible for the annual budget and adjustments, reporting directly to the board of directors.

USAID project to reduce HIV-related workplace discrimination in MexicoFounded and ran the first business council focused on the rights of people living with HIV in Latin America.Recruited 50 companies, including Ford and Pfizer to the business council.Promoted human rights and corporate social responsibility by enabling businesses to proactively address a controversial topic.Editorial Consultant 2004World Bank special reportsEdited country reports by bank economists on education and health in Latin America

Covered business and government as a stringer for the paper.Wrote well-received profile of Lorenzo Zambrano and covered Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, as he began his expansion into Latin America with America Movil.

Wrote and presented daily half hour news show in English about Mexico on the public radio network.

Covered financial markets, economy and politics.Interviewed then candidate Vicente Fox as he campaigned to become Mexico's first democratically elected president in 2000 and then covered the victory celebrations.Developed a specialized knowledge of the energy beat including new natural gas distribution regulations and the state oil company, Pemex, during its struggles to maintain production.; Bridge News, formerly Knight-Ridder financial news, Mexico CityCovered stock and currency markets as well as the economy, including the aftermath of the 1994 Mexican peso collapse. Reporter 1995The News, Mexico City's English-language dailyWrote about business, the economy and the financial markets.