Thomas Fitzsimons Email & Phone Number

Geneva Area, Switzerland

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is the global organization of national parliaments. It was founded more than 130 years ago as the first multilateral political organization in the world, encouraging cooperation and dialogue between all nations. Today, the IPU is made up of nearly all the world's national and supranational parliaments. It promotes democracy, helps parliaments to become stronger, younger, gender-balanced, greener and more innovative. It also defends the human rights of parliamentarians through a dedicated committee made up of MPs from around the world.

Région De Genève, Suisse

Responsible for communicating the work of the Office of the Inspector General of the Global Fund. The Office of the Inspector General safeguards the assets, investments, reputation and sustainability of the Global Fund by ensuring that it takes the right action to end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Responsibilities included: WRITING AND MESSAGING -Writing support, positioning, and content development for the Inspector General in all communications to the Board, partners, media, donor and recipient countries (reports, thought leadership, speeches, presentations…)-Redesigning main-message-first and reader-focused outputs to ensure effective communications -Organizing writing and media workshops for technical staff to encourage use of plain English LIAISING ACROSS A MULTI-STAKEHOLDER ORGANIZATION-Liaising with different teams, countries, partners to understand needs and influence change-Designing and implementing a communications strategy for more effective stakeholder engagement with built-in safeguards for sensitive Inspector General reports -Managing media response and crisis communications following publication of high profile corruption reportsDEVELOPING MEDIA -Media outreach for positive messaging of the work of the Inspector General-Creating and cultivating new channels to amplify the Inspector General’s messaging (LinkedIn group, Twitter, YouTube, friendly media…)COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGNS IN CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENTS-Designing and project managing anti-corruption communication campaigns in Malawi, Côte d’Ivoire and Ukraine to encourage whistle-blowers to speak out about abuse of medicines -Creating a multimedia e-learning platform to raise awareness of corruption http://www.ispeakoutnow.org-Developing public radio announcements, visuals for billboards, printing assets for illiterate populations -Launching campaign to local media in Malawi, Côte d’Ivoire and Ukraine in partnership with local stakeholders to fight corruption

Région De Lausanne, Suisse

Responsible for repositioning and revamping HEC Lausanne's communications on the occasion of its centenary.BRANDING -Creating new institutional positioning and implementing new brand visual identity -Writing, researching and vulgarizing multi-language editorial content in French, English and German: news, events, copy for external and internal newsletters (traffic on website +10 % in 2012 vs 2011)MEDIA DEVELOPMENT-Community manager for social media outlets (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Sina Weibo…)-Intense development of Swiss media relations (no. of press clippings +150% in 2012 vs 2010)-Proactive international press coverage for HEC research (Placement of Op-Eds in The Guardian, The Economist, The Huffington Post, The Financial Times…)-Creation of new videocast series ‘HEC Lausanne decodes the news’: 10 short videos produced with over 15’000 views within a yearCENTENNIAL PROJECT MANAGER-Overall operational coordination of all centennial activities in 2011 including:-Project lead on centennial Faculty book ‘Responsible Management for the 21st Century’ written by thirty professors, translated into three languages and published by Pearson in paper and ePub format-Management of over twenty centennial events: conferences with Nobel Prize winners, debates, gala diner with Swiss President and local VIPs, student concert…

Région De Paris, France

-Management of team of six (publicists, editorial and web)-Editorial coordination all corporate publications: (annual report, quarterly newsletters, on-line content, press releases, corporate brochure, presentations, testimonials…) -Implementation of advertising campaign in The Economist and The Financial Times to promote French business environment: media planning, messaging, negotiation and post-campaign evaluation

Région De Paris, France

-Management of team of six (publicists, sales reps, editorial and web) -Media relations with French literary press (x 4 times more press cuttings in Le Monde in 2007 vs 2006) -Implementation of marketing plan to boost web traffic and sales (traffic + 150% in 2007 vs 2006) -Budget supervision and optimization

Région De Paris, France

-Management of team of three (publicist, editorial and web) -Trade marketing with main book chains: specific tailor-made promotions for FNAC, Virgin, Amazon…-Implementation of marketing strategy: +5% turnover in 2003 (market average in 2003: –5%)-Marketing research leading to relaunch and rebranding of French travel guide books in 2004

Région De Paris, France

Région De Paris, France

M.Sc., Social Anthropology

Dess, Marketing Vente

Ba, History And French