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Peter Schechter specializes in the management of international business and public policy communications. His clients’ diversity ranging from a major credit card company, an aerospace manufacturer and large wine producers speak to the success of his advice. He has helped various large international energy companies on key transactions in Latin America and has advocated for regional beer producers on a large merger fight. In addition, Mr. Schechter advised major corporations such as General Electric and Hyundai on trade-related disputes. Mr. Schechter has also served as principal advisor in key initiatives for the United Nations Foundation, the World Bank and the World Health Organization and has assisted countries such as Colombia, Congo, Ecuador, Spain, Peru, and Portugal in business and tourism promotion programs. Mr. Schechter has helped governments implement communications to internally mobilize public support for a variety of policy initiatives. In the past years, the governments of Brazil, Georgia, Serbia and Nicaragua retained him to create public education initiatives on issues such as economic reform, land reform, environmental preservation efforts and the rights of indigenous peoples. Beyond corporate and public policy work, Mr. Schechter also served as principal consultant to a number of elections worldwide. This includes work for the Social Democratic Party of Nigeria, President Ernesto Zedillo in Mexico, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in Brazil, and Presidents Alvaro Uribe and Cesar Gaviria in Colombia. He served previously as senior staff for the Subcommittee on International Development Institutions and Finance and worked at National Public Radio and the Inter-American Development Bank. A graduate of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Schechter has lived in Europe and Latin America and is fluent in six languages. He is on the Board of Directors of BriteSmile, trading on the Nasdaq, and on the Board of Directors of a number of prominent Washington restaurants. He published Point of Entry, his first novel with Harper Collins in January 2006. | 