People

Director

Professor Anne Gregory

Professor of Corporate Communication

Partners

Jesper Falkheimer

Professor in Strategic Communication at Lund University, Sweden

Jesper Falkheimer, Ph.D., is Professor in Strategic Communication at Lund University, Sweden. He has been Rector for Campus Helsingborg since 2011, starting as Executive Director for Research, Collaboration and Innovation at Lund University in 2017. He is Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Communication Management, a member of Arthur W. Page Society and Honorary Fellow at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Katerina Tsetsura

Director at the University of Oklahoma, USA

Katerina Tsetsura, Ph.D., is Gaylord Family Professor of Public Relations and Strategic Communication and the Director of Graduate Studies at the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma in the USA. Dr. Tsetsura is internationally known for her work in global public relations and media transparency.

Dr. Gregor Halff

Chair of the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management

Dr. Gregor Halff is Professor of Corporate Communication Practice and Deputy Dean at Singapore Management University as well as Visiting Faculty at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT, Berlin). He is the Chair of the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management.

Gabriel Sadi

Director of the Public Relations program, Interamerican Open University (UAI)

Gabriel Sadi. Professor, Researcher and Director of the Public Relations program, Interamerican Open University (UAI, Argentina). Associate lecturer in undergraduate and graduate courses, Belgrano University (UB, Argentina). Ph.D. (C.) in Social Communication, Austral University (UA). M.Sc. in Institutional Communication and Image, CAECE University (UCAECE). B.Sc. in Journalism, Salvador University (USAL). Member of the Board, Argentinian Public Relations Professional Council.

Amy Thurlow

Associate professor, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada

Amy Thurlow, PhD, APR, is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada. Amy teaches public relations management, communication studies, and organizational communication. Her research interests focus on the areas of identity construction, critical historiography and organizational communication.

Dr. Elena Gutierrez-Garcia

Director of the Master in Political and Corporate Communication at Navarra

Dr. Elena Gutierrez-Garcia, Professor at the School of Communication, University of Navarra (Spain). She teaches and researches in corporate communication. Her publications cover the role of strategic communication and the chief communication officer in strategic decision-making processes. She is currently the director of the Master in Political and Corporate Communication at Navarra.

Ronel Rensburg

Head of Communication Management Division, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Ronel Rensburg, PhD, CPRP, FPRISA Is senior professor and head of the Communication Management Division, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is also Director of the Centre for Communication and Reputation Management (CCRM). Ronel teaches corporate communication management, reputation management and government communication. Her current research focuses on communication and reputation management in an era of non-compliance.

Alex Sévigny

Past President of CPRS Hamilton / CPRS National Board and Accreditation member

Alex Sévigny, PhD, APR, is an associate professor of communications management at McMaster University (Canada). He is the director of the McMaster-Syracuse Master of Communications Management program. He is active in the Canadian Public Relations Society, currently serving as Past President of CPRS Hamilton and sits on the CPRS National Board and Accreditation Council.

Marianne D. Sison

Convenor/chair of the Asia Pacific Public Relations Research & Education Network

Marianne D. Sison, FPRIA is Senior Lecturer and former Deputy Dean (International), School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include social responsibility, organizational and cultural values, stakeholder engagement, diversity, inclusion, multiculturalism and global public relations with a specific focus on Southeast Asia. She is the convenor and chair of the Asia Pacific Public Relations Research and Education Network.