Ron Gibbs
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Ronald F. Gibbs is president of National & International Public Affairs Consulting. |
Ron Gibbs is a nationally recognized expert in public policy. He has a track record of implementing highly successful public affairs and public relations campaigns by using coalition building, grassroots organizing and public awareness initiatives to change public opinion. Mr. Gibbs has provided effective leadership on numerous public awareness and legislative campaigns dealing with urban and rural affairs, child welfare, health care, hunger relief, diabetes education, Medicare reform, veteran's affairs, immigration and global poverty.
Currently, he is head of National and International Public Affairs Consulting (NIPAC) and provides strategic counsel to businesses and non-profits on public policy, marketing/branding, fund raising and corporate reputation management. In addition, he founded the Legis Institute which conducts seminars on public policy issues and the legislative process at all levels of government.
Mr. Gibbs has worked in high level public policy positions for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, for Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, first black mayor of the city and he was selected as a Congressional Fellow to work in the U.S. House and Senate. He has worked for major non-profit organizations including Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest-The Nation's Food Bank Network) and for UNICEF. He established the Kim Foundation to help child victims of war, which is chaired by Kim Phuc, whose Pulitzer Prize winning photo was captured by Nick Ut as her village was napalmed during the Vietnam War.
Mr. Gibbs was a senior vice president at Edelman Worldwide and Fleishman-Hillard, two world class public relations firms. He was a candidate for the Illinois State Senate and for the U.S. Senate from Illinois. Mr. Gibbs has been nationally recognized for his work in building a national coalition and spearheading the passage of the legislation that established the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, the most visited memorial in our nation's Capitol. As Jan Scruggs stated in his book, To Heal A Nation, "Ron spent many hours walking the halls of Congress. He never asked for public recognition or acclaim. His only desire was to see the 58,000 names inscribed in a place of honor." He served as an Army Infantry Captain in Vietnam and Germany.
Mr. Gibbs received a Master's Degree from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government and BA in Political Science from Drake University. He has studied at The Hague Academy of International Law, the London School of Economics and Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies.
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Phone: 312-543-1455
