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Harold Pachios
hpachios@preti.com

Presents Lecture on Influencing Foreign Public Opinion

Harold C. Pachios, a member at Preti Flaherty and the chairman of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, presented a lecture entitled “Influencing Foreign Public Opinion – America’s Role” at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

The U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, created by Congress in 1948, is responsible for assessing public diplomacy policies and programs of the U.S. State Department, American missions abroad, and other agencies.  Advisory Commission responsibilities extend to international exchanges, U.S. government international information programs, and publicly funded non-governmental organizations.  Pachios was nominated and confirmed as a member of the commission in 1993, and designated chairman by President Clinton in 1999.
Pachios’ prior government service includes three years as a deputy congressional liaison for the Peace Corps during the agency’s early years.  President Johnson appointed him Associate White House Press Secretary in 1965, where he served as a principal aide to Press Secretary Bill Moyers.   Pachios then served as a director of scheduling and advance in the Vice Presidential Campaign Staff of U.S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie.  In November 1968, he joined the law firm of Preti Flaherty, where he still practices.
Pachios resides in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.