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Shea Agnew is a Vice President at Breakwater Strategy, where he leads the firm’s earned mediastrategy and executive positioning work. A storyteller by nature, clients turn to Shea for creativeideation, speechwriting, byline composition and placement, and corporate narrativedevelopment.Shea joined Breakwater after spending four years in Suva, Fiji, where he headed communicationsfor the Fijian government. As speechwriter to the Prime Minister and advisor to the Attorney-General and Minister for Economy, he projected the voice of Fiji and other Small IslandDeveloping States on the global stage, amplifying the stories of the world’s most climate-vulnerable populations.Of note, Shea’s portfolio includes remarks at the United Nations General Assembly, the UNFCCCConference of Parties climate summits (COP23, 24, and 25), World Bank Group Annual Meetingsand Small States Forums, the Asian Development Bank Annual Meetings, the inaugural UNHabitat Assembly, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, the World Urban Forum,and the Pacific Islands Forum. His audiences have included some of the world’s most influentialfigures –– various heads of state and government, royalty, secretaries-general, and majorcorporate leaders.Shea’s experience covers issues of immense geopolitical significance and complex interculturalsensitivity, from climate change to interfaith healing. He worked on the ground in the wake ofthe mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand and Easter bombings in Colombo, Sri Lanka.He represented Fiji in the planning of its country exhibition at EXPO 2020 Dubai, and was amember of the Fijian delegation at landmark international climate negotiations in both Tuvaluand Spain.His career in strategic communications began at Edelman, where he specialized in executivepositioning, C-suite thought leadership, and corporate branding. He worked to publicize thecreation of the Star in Frisco, the multi-billion-dollar headquarters and practice facility of theDallas Cowboys, from groundbreaking to ribbon-cutting.Shea majored in international studies and government at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.While there, he studied marine biology in Culebra, Puerto Rico, Eastern culture in Beijing, China,and ancient history in Greece. He now splits his time between the U.S., Portugal, and Brazil.

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