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We shape favorable policy and regulatory outcomes to help meet your business objectives.
Edelman’s Public & Government Affairs team of consultants are trusted and experienced public affairs advisors—including former government officials, political advisors, policy and regulatory experts, lawyers, economists, and industry professionals.
We help our clients engage with government, politics, policy, and regulation to help them achieve strategic business objectives. Typically, we partner with our clients over the long term, helping tackle challenges and seize opportunities as they arise over time. We also work on issue-specific campaigns designed to solve a particular challenge.
Our 300-strong team is rooted firmly in local markets and local public affairs, and works seamlessly across geographies and time zones, combining deep local knowledge with regional and global perspective. Our best-in-class consultants ensure our services are business-driven and add value for clients through their insight and impact. We work seamlessly with Edelman’s 6,000+ other world-class communications professionals to integrate Edelman’s unparalleled suite of services—public and media relations, brand, crisis, digital advocacy, data analytics, and more—to add further value in building client confidence and stakeholder trust.
Public and Government Affairs Insights is your hub for analysis of today's most consequential geopolitical developments.
Edelman's Public and Government team can provide businesses with expert guidance in government affairs, public policy, risk management, and corporate communications to help them navigate and lead through the uncertainties of election cycles and evolving political landscapes.
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PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Building stakeholder support to establish credibility and achieve results
We help organizations engage effectively with policymakers, stakeholders, opinion formers, and the media in order to achieve policy outcomes that serve business objectives. We operate at the local, regional, and global levels, depending on client needs.
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
Helping you navigate relations with government
We advise and support our clients to develop and implement strategies and plans to understand, engage with, and advocate towards policy makers, decision makers, regulators, and relevant stakeholders. Our work is evidence based, commercially aware, and politically astute.
REGULATORY & POLICY ADVISORY AND SUPPORT
Anticipating, navigating, and shaping regulatory and policy change
We prepare our clients for regulatory challenges and help them pursue the policy solutions that serve their business objectives—though never at the expense of people or planet. As policy and regulatory environments evolve, we work with our clients to anticipate changes that impact their business and shape outcomes aligned with their vision.
ADVOCACY & ISSUES MANAGEMENT CAMPAIGNS
Shaping conversations to drive action and evolve reputations
We specialize in developing and implementing international advocacy and communications advisory strategies for clients in business, government, and civil society. By developing integrated international public affairs and communications campaigns, we help clients elevate critical issues, connect with strategic stakeholders, and build a strong voice to protect and advance reputational and business goals.
STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS
Earning trust through impactful targeted communications solutions
We help our clients message effectively to government and other public policy stakeholders, enabling their understanding of client perspectives and building trust. We help clients craft and deliver the right messages, through the right channels, to the right people, at the right time—with the creativity you’ve come to expect from Edelman—so that our clients’ priorities rise above the noise, protecting license to operate and evolving reputation.
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ASIA-PACIFIC
APAC Public & Government Affairs works at the intersection of the public sector, private sector, and civil society to help clients navigate legal, regulatory, communications, and public relations issues and achieve business success.
EMEA
EMEA Public & Government Affairs helps clients engage with government, politics, policy, legislation, and regulation across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
LATIN AMERICA
Latin America Public Affairs helps clients navigate the political and commercial landscape in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, building trust and driving success across sectors like tech, finance, health, and agribusiness.
NORTH AMERICA
North America Public & Government Affairs helps clients navigate the convergence of global policy, politics and culture to earn trust, and achieve business success.
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We are trust-makers, business builders, and culture creators. For more than 70 years, we have led campaigns with real impact on consumers, society, and the bottom line.
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We are executives, civil-servants, regulatory experts and industry professionals. We’ve worked in government and every industry affected by it, so we know how to navigate complex regulatory and political environments to help our clients achieve their goals. We design innovative strategies, we build trusted partnerships, and we get things done. Sound like your people? Join us!
Global Leadership
Rocco Renaldi
EMEA and Global Chair
Aaron Guiterman
U.S. Head of Public Affairs
Públio Madruga
Chair, Latin America
Emma Peacock
Chair, EGA Health
