Chris Deri

Chris Deri is Senior Adviser at Rud Pedersen, a long experienced counsellor to public and private sector leaders around the world at the intersection of business strategy, societal expectations and reputation.

His particular areas of expertise include executive positioning campaigns, U.S.-China relations, environmental and social issues as well as making enterprises more tech-enabled.

Chris has launched, led and scaled new businesses, practices and markets at Teneo, Burson, Weber Shandwick and Edelman. Earlier in his career he worked in US presidential campaign politics, AIDS advocacy and international education.

Some of his current and past select clients include Amnesty International, The Coca-Cola Company, the Government of Abu Dhabi, Liquid.ai, Huawei, J&J, FIFA, HSBC, IBM and Qualcomm.

Chris was a WEF Young Global Leader and a Council on Foreign Relations Term Member. He is currently a Senior Advisor to Business Insider’s Workforce Innovation Board, CUNY’s Office of Diplomatic Engagement and Training as well as University of Southern California’s Institute of Public Relations. He received his B.A. from Washington College.

Chris is also the founder of KRG Advisors, which is based in New York and consults on reputation risk & management, societal issues and geopolitics.