Charles H. Dolan Jr.
Lecturer, Senior Vice President, Ketchum

Phone: (202) 835-7286
Fax: (202) 835-8879
E-mail: Charles.Dolan@ketchum.com
Office: MPA 425

Expertise

Courses Taught

PCM 190, Political Campaign Ethics

Selected Works

Background

Charles H. Dolan, Jr., is a Senior Vice President at Ketchum one of the world's leading public relations agencies. In 2002 it was named as Agency of the Year by PRWeek and ranked 7th in the Council of Public Relations Firms' global list of largest public relations agencies according to revenue. His campaign work includes experience as a campaign manager, press secretary, convention manager, field organizer, and fundraiser in elections on the city, state and federal levels.

He was a member of the Clinton for President Exploratory Committee and served as the state chairman of the Virginia Clinton-Gore campaigns in 1992 and 1996. He is the former executive director of the Democratic Governors' Association, where for seven years he participated in the election and re-election of Democratic governors in all fifty states.

He has been a guest political analyst for the BBC, MSNBC, Fox News and CNN. Mr. Dolan was a founder of the Democratic Leadership Council and continues to serve as a member of the Board of Advisors. He also serves on the Executive Advisory Committee for the Pamela Harriman Foreign Service Fellowships at the College of William and Mary.

Mr. Dolan is also the former Vice-Chairman of the presidentially appointed United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. The seven-member Commission is a bipartisan panel established by the Congress to advise the President, the Secretary of State, and the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs on educational and cultural exchanges, press and information activities of U.S. missions abroad, and the government's international radio and television operations.

Prior to his work with the Democratic Governors' Association, Mr. Dolan served as a Special Assistant at the U.S. Embassy in Ireland. He also worked for three years as a Legislative Assistant in the U.S. Congress with responsibility for Appropriations Subcommittees on Justice, Commerce and Foreign Operations.

Education

M.P.A., Government and Business, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, 1980
B.A., Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1974