Amaudry Named Vice President of Corporate Communications, Europe, for the Walt Disney Company.BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1998--Monique Amaudry has been named vice president of corporate communications, Europe, for The Walt Disney Company, it was announced Tuesday by John Dreyer, senior vice president of corporate communications, and Executive Vice President Pierre Sissman, Disney's top European executive. In this newly created Paris-based position, Amaudry is responsible for Disney's corporate news media and financial press relations throughout Europe. "Monique has a superb international background as a business journalist and a communications and public affairs executive," said Dreyer. "With Disney's increasing business in Europe, she will serve as the company's spokesperson there, helping formulate and communicate the company's positions on various issues. She also will provide advice and counsel to senior management on public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most issues affecting the company in Europe." Noted Sissman: "Monique's perspectives as a journalist and a business person in the international marketplace especially qualify her for this new position. We very much look forward to her arrival on staff." Amaudry previously was consultant and head of a country promotional program for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Bank targeted at Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. in London. Working with the news media and international investment community, she directed a program to promote business opportunities in 26 countries. Before that, she was director of communications Director of Communications is a position in the private and public sectors. The Director of Communications is responsible for managing and directing an organization's internal and external communications. and public affairs for MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. Europe, and earlier was director of communications for Goldman Sachs International, Ltd. Both positions were in London. Before moving to London, she was chief of media relations and spokesperson for International Finance Corporations in Washington, D.C. -- a private sector affiliate of the World Bank. For more than 10 years, Amaudry was a journalist, starting as an editorial assistant for McGraw-Hill World News in Paris. Later, she became an assistant editor for McGraw-Hill's "Business Week" in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , before moving to Washington, D.C. as associate editor of "Kiplinger Washington Letter." She then became New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of correspondent for the French publication "Le Nouvel Economiste." A native of Auvergne, France, Amaudry holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Paris and a master's degree in management from the London Business School Around 800 degree students, from 70 countries, graduate from the school each year. Over 80 percent of students, and over 70 percent of faculty, come from outside the UK. A further 6,000 executives attend the school executive education programmes each year. Sloan Fellowship Programme. She is married and has one child. |
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