Matt J. Lauer is partner of Qorvis’ international and crisis communications clients.  His 15 years of public affairs experience, gained from working in the most intimate of American media markets to informing vast international audiences, serves a breadth of Qorvis Communications clients in the fields of crisis communications, international affairs, online search strategy and media relations. Prior to joining Qorvis, Lauer was the executive director of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy at the Department of State. The commission, a bipartisan panel appointed by the president, analyzes and evaluates the U.S. government’s international public relations capabilities.
 
Lauer continues to utilize his unique skills at Qorvis to foster understanding between foreign governments and multinational companies and the American people. He brings experience from numerous interest groups, the government and political campaigns to provide crisis communications advice and media counsel to a wide variety of foreign governments, corporations and industry coalitions.

• At the State Department, Lauer audited America’s communications capacity in Indonesia, China, Korea, Senegal, the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Turkey, Russia and Serbia.
• For multiple international government agencies, he coordinated mechanisms for conveying information  to foreign publics through online and search strategies.
• During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lauer coordinated the public diplomacy initiatives in the State Department’s operations war room.
• While as senior director of media relations for America’s Promise, he worked with the organization’s chairman General Colin L. Powell to rally resources for youth through a national media campaign.
• At America’s Promise, he organized and conceptualized highly publicized events with prominent officials, such as President Bill Clinton, President G.W. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• While the director of communications for the South Carolina Democratic Party, Lauer coordinated research, polling, earned media and paid advertising efforts for successful state legislative, gubernatorial and U.S. Senate campaigns.
• As a deputy finance director on the first senate campaign of John Edwards, he formulated and implemented a successful early fundraising strategy in select North Carolina counties prior to the candidate’s official launch of the campaign.
• For the successful presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore, Lauer was an instrumental part of the messaging and organizational activities directed at college students during both campaigns.
• As a veteran of initiatives from grassroots campaigns to international communication projects, he has served as a media advisor to numerous government and political officials in local, national and international media markets.

Education

Lauer is a graduate of North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Arts in history.

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