Michelle Giuda Named Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
Michelle Giuda has been named an Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. Giuda has been the Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Communications at Weber Shandwick in NYC since 2014. At Weber Shandwick, she worked on global communications strategy across 81 countries.
During her tenure, Weber Shandwick became the most awarded public relations firm at the 2016 Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity, the first firm to be named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year for three consecutive years, and the only PR agency on Advertising Age’s A-List in 2014 and 2015.
Giuda was named one of the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business by the Asian American Business Development Center in 2016. Previously, she served as Deputy National Press Secretary to Speaker Newt Gingrich and Communications Director for GOPAC in Washington, D.C.
Giuda graduated, cum laude, with a B.A. from the University of California Los Angeles, where she won an NCAA Championship and captained the UCLA Women’s Gymnastics Team; and she earned an M.P.S. from George Washington University.
