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Anna Tunkel, senior director, leads strategic initiatives and external partnerships for the office of the founder & chairman of APCO Worldwide, one of world’s largest privately owned communication, stakeholder engagement & business strategy firms. Ms. Tunkel oversees global projects and teams, counseling multinational clients on a broad gamut of public affairs and communications issues, public-private partnerships, government relations, market entry and global reputation building strategy with a focus on emerging markets. She also manages the firm’s external partnerships with global organizations, including World Economic Forum, United Nations, World Bank, APEC, Fortune Magazine and others In her previous positions at APCO she served as an associate director in Shanghai, managing a number of projects with Chinese multinational firms, an emerging market sovereign wealth fund and a number of global companies seeking expansion in China. She also worked in Washington DC on a variety of business development and special projects for the firm, spanning APCO’s offices across North America, Europe and Asia. Prior to joining APCO in 2005, Ms. Tunkel worked for the Division of External Relations at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva and also had stints with Physicians for Human Rights – Israel and an Anti-Human Trafficking Campaign in Israel. Ms. Tunkel received a Master of Science with academic distinction from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and a Landegger Honors Certificate in international business diplomacy. She was named as one of the 99 most influential foreign policy leaders under the age of 33, by the Diplomatic Courier and is an alum of the Bucerius Global Governance Leadership program. Raised and schooled in Russia, Israel and India, she is fluent in Hebrew, Russian, English and Spanish and maintains a working knowledge of Mandarin Chinese.