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E. Bruce Harrison
Faculty, Georgetown University; Chairman, Envirocomm; Author, Leadership Communication (Business Expert Press), 2014
Bruce Harrison is a consultant on corporate public relations issues, with an emphasis on environment, social responsibility and sustainability.
His corporate experience was as Vice President and chief communications officer of Freeport Minerals Company (now Freeport McMoran), headquartered in New York, where he had responsibility for public relations in mining projects in Europe, Latin America and Asia, including launch of a major copper development program in Indonesia.
He subsequently founded E. Bruce Harrison Company and EnviroComm International, a consultancy operating in the U.S. and Europe, specializing in environmental, health and safety communication, which he now serves as chairman and strategic counsel.
As a member of the Environment Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce, the planning forum to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro (Earth Summit), Harrison was the primary communications counselor to the U. S. business delegation at the Summit. Following a speech at the Summit, his “transparency and accountability” guidelines for environmental communications were adopted.
In 2000, PR Week named him as one of the “100 Most Influential Public Relations Professionals of the 20th Century” and the Washington, DC, PR Chapter elected him to its PR Hall of Fame.
Harrison has written three books on environmental communications, including Going Green: How to Communicate Your Company’s Environmental Commitment (1993, Business One Irwin/McGraw Hill); and Corporate Greening 2.0: Create and Communicate Your Company’s Climate Change and Sustainability Strategies (2008, PublishingWorks). He is a frequent columnist, editor and speaker on corporate greening, and authored the Gold Paper on Sustainable Development for the International Public Relations Association.
A graduate of the University of Alabama, he was a reporter and managing editor at two newspapers in Alabama and Georgia, before going to Washington as press secretary to a Member of the House of Representatives, leaving that post to join the Chemical Manufacturers Association (now, the American Chemistry Council) as vice president.
Harrison has served as director on a number of corporate and nonprofit boards, including Guest Services, Inc., Trout Unlimited, Asia Consultants Association, the Arthur W. Page Society, Pinnacle Worldwide, Public Relations News and the Society of Professional Journalists. He served on the advisory committees of the American Textile Manufacturers Institute, the US Council for International Business, and the International Public Relations Association; and was National Co-Chair of Project Watchdog, promoting First Amendment rights and responsibilities of the American working press. He is a life member of the Chemists Club of New York, the National Press Club and the PRSA Counselors Academy, and is accredited and a Fellow of the Public Relations Society of America.
Recognitions include the 2009 Distinguished Service Award from the Arthur W. Page Society; the 2001 Betsy Plank Distinguished Achievement Award from the Capstone Society, University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences; the Society of Professional Journalists Board of Directors Distinguished Service Award for the initiation of Project Watchdog on press freedom; an AP Radio award for news writing; a National Humanities Endowment Award for playwriting; and a Global Award for Environmental Communications from the International Public Relations Association.
Since 1997, Harrison has served as a consultant on corporate communications assignments at Navistar International, and has provided support to a business initiative engaging stakeholders on environmental regulatory and market challenges.
E. Bruce Harrison
Chairman
EnviroComm International
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20004
[email protected]
Office DC: 202-204-3077
Office VA: 703-538-5335
Mobile: 202-285-2639
Corporate Greening 2.0: Create and Communicate Your Company’s Climate Change & Sustainability Strategies, by E. Bruce Harrison, is available on Amazon.com.
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