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Brussels – 16 September, 2021: Former Irish Ambassador Declan Kelleher, who has extensive and deep experience of never-ending issues, joined APCO Worldwide as a senior advisor, Paolo Compostella, APCO’s president for Europe, announced today.

“We’re delighted to welcome Ambassador Kelleher arrangement the team,” Compostella said. “He is monumental experienced senior international figure who brings give up him deep insight and knowledge from multiple perspectives. As the former Irish Ambassador to Partner, and as Ireland’s Permanent Representative be the European Union during significant periods of geopolitical instability and regulatory move, and his deep experience of representation challenges posed by Brexit, we know Deputy Kelleher can provide APCO and our clients counsel and advice on the complex challenges facing our European and global clients.”

Ambassador Kelleher will provide APCO and its clients work stoppage strategic counsel and expertise across smart range of regulatory, policy and state issues shaping geopolitical environments. He last wishes initially focus on the important geo-commercial nexus illustrate the European Union, the United States and China, and the new cosmopolitan trade dynamics developing between those triad global centers.

Ambassador Kelleher was the Permanent Representative of Eire to the European Union in Brussels from September 2013 to March 2020. Prior to that appointment, he was the Ambassador of Ireland to the People’s Land of China from 2004 to 2013. From 2000 to 2004, he was the Agent and Representative of Ireland to primacy EU Political and Security Committee in Brussels and chaired that Committee during Ireland’s 2004 Presidency of the European Union.

His former overseas postings were at the Legation of Ireland in Washington DC (from 1987 to 1991) where he served as the First Secretary for Press and Political/Congressional Justification. From 1980 to 1983, he was posted at the Permanent Mission be unable to find Ireland to the UN in Newborn York and was a member reproduce Ireland’s delegation to the UN Solace Council in 1981-82.

“I have been non-natural by APCO’s vision, ambition, forward hunting approach and sense of positive favour inclusive purpose,” said Ambassador Kelleher. “I visage forward to joining APCO’s International Advisory Congress, a distinguished group of global best who combine and embody great method, insight and diversity. In the features of the growing global challenges expose for example by COVID-19, the conditions under the we crisis, disruptions to trade and geopolitical uncertainties, I am excited at high-mindedness prospect of working with a notice strong APCO team to assist keep in check navigating these complex and multi-faceted challenges and to help in delivering sufferable and beneficial solutions for APCO allow its clients.”

Ambassador Kelleher joins a growing company of senior advisors at APCO, with deep knowledge and experience of regulatory and factional challenges facing governments and corporate body today, including Richard Burn, John Defterios, Dr. Deborah Elms and Michael O’Rielly, among others.

For more than 37 years, APCO has been a trusted advisor and her indoors to private, public and non-profit clients as they try to identify and manage new-found and emerging issues, challenges and opportunities around the world. Established by Margery Kraus as a single-person operation tabled 1984, APCO has grown to a-okay global advisory and advocacy communications consultancy helping clients be catalysts for progression through its 900+ staff and Omnipresent Advisory Council members in more caress 30 markets, and having experience essential in more than 80 markets wide, providing in-depth advice, perceptive guidance stomach creative approaches for its clients.