He is immediate past chair of The Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management; liaison to the United Nations for the Global Alliance and the Public Relations Society of America and a member of The Commission of Public Relations Education.
The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) 1989 national president, John has held many offices in that society and has received a number of professional awards, most recently Public Relations Society America’s 2012 Atlas Award for Lifetime Achievement in International Public Relations.
In 1988, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall he represented PRSA in the first US-Soviet Bilateral Information Talks in Moscow and in the first East-West Public Relations Summit in Vienna. More recently, he has chaired United Nations Global Compact conference in Berlin and Paris. He has also lectured on corporate responsibility and reputation management at ten U.S. Colleges and at business conferences on four continents.
A former journalist, John has written many commentaries for business and academic journals such as Journalism Studies, The Foreign Policy Association’s “Viewpoints” and the CNBC Blog. He is the author of “An American Journey”, his immigrant family’s memoir, and seminal books on corporate social responsibility, “Organizing for Corporate Social Responsibility” (Amacom, 1973) and “Will the Corporation Survive?” (Prentice-Hall, 1977).
A graduate of Manhattan College (B.A management) and a former member of the college’s Board of Trustees, John received a Manhattan College honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, in 2005. He resides in Old Westbury, N.Y.
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