Paul S. Clark Senior Vice President
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With more than 30 years of experience in the journalism and public affairs fields, Paul Clark has extensive litigation and crisis communications expertise, and is among the most seasoned communications professionals in the country in counseling clients on how to work with the media during times of crisis. He also has considerable experience conducting executive-level media training, speech/presentation training and congressional testimony training.
His recent crisis and litigation clients include Enron’s new corporate leadership after the company declared bankruptcy; the new management at a Fortune 100 health care company that was faced at the time with the largest Medicare fraud settlement in health care history; American POWs captured during the First Gulf War in Iraq who brought suit against Saddam Hussein for months of torture; a financial institution, and its management, faced with Justice Department and congressional investigations; the new management of a local chapter of a prominent national charitable organization faced with corruption charges; an entertainment company under assault by extremist animal rights groups; a national youth services organization facing public disclosure of Internet pornography by employees and possible charges of discrimination; and a global retail chain facing expanding negative media coverage as a result of a biased, unbalanced story in a major financial magazine.
In addition to being an associate and senior vice president with TheWadeGroup, Inc., Clark is the principal of Paul Clark Communications. Before establishing his own communications consultancy, Clark was a senior vice president at The Walker Marchant Group. Prior to that, he spent nine years with Hill & Knowlton, most recently as U.S. director of crisis media. He previously served as communications director and spokesperson for the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs during the Senate’s high-profile investigation into campaign finance abuses during the 1996 federal election cycle. In this role he conducted thousands of media interviews with key national print and broadcast reporters.
From 1989 to 1992, Clark was communications director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. He also led the grassroots effort for the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution from 1985 to 1989. In 1980, Clark served as executive director of the Republican National Convention. Clark also was associate publisher of Saturday Review magazine, news editor of National Journal magazine and a senior editor with McGraw Hill.
In 1991, he received the Chairman’s Award from the million-member Public Employees Roundtable for his support of excellence in government and public service. In 2004, he won the Public Relations Society of America’s Bronze Sabre Award for placement of a national media story with CBS’s “60 Minutes” on American POWs tortured during the First Gulf War.
Clark received a Master of Arts degree in international relations from American University’s School of International Service, and is a graduate of Gettysburg College.