Robert Nolan
Robert Nolan
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Editor-in-Chief, WorldView Magazine | Peace Corps & National Service Advocate | Global Affairs & Nonprofit Leadership | Communications Strategist | Writer & Spe
France
Robert has held executive and senior communications leadership roles at top-tier foundations and nonprofit organizations, with a special focus on civic engagement and international affairs. He was executive director of communications at Carnegie Corporation of New York, America's oldest grantmaking foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to improve international peace and security, create educational opportunity, and foster civic engagement.
Robert is the founder of Contemplative Content, a strategic communications consulting group.
He was editor-in-chief of content at the Foreign Policy Association, and producer of the television series Great Decisions in Foreign Policy on PBS. In this role, he interviewed heads of state, Nobel laureates, foreign ministers, international religious figures and other key players on the global stage. He also produced the 2009 documentary "From Pharaohs to Facebook: Egypt Today," and has been a frequent contributor of opinion and analysis for U.S. News & World Report and The Huffington Post.
A former Peace Corps volunteer in Zimbabwe, Robert is the author of "The Quest for African Unity: 50 Years of Independence and Interdependence," a monograph about the African Union, and he’s written extensively on African politics, transatlantic relations, the United Nations, and public engagement on U.S. foreign policy.
He was also director of communications at the University of San Francisco's St. Ignatius Parish, one of the city's most iconic churches founded in 1914, where he created and executed strategic communications for a successful $25 million capital development campaign.
Robert was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a member of Network 20/20 and Service Year Alliance. He is an alumnus of the European Union Visitors Program, served as a U.S. delegate to the Atlantic Council’s “Young Atlanticist” convening at the 2010 NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal and was awarded a Democracy Fellowship by the Polish Foreign Ministry.
Specialties: Strategic Communications, Content Creation, Digital Marketing, Television/Web Production, Writing and Reporting, Photography, African Affairs, Global Music, French
Robert is the founder of Contemplative Content, a strategic communications consulting group.
He was editor-in-chief of content at the Foreign Policy Association, and producer of the television series Great Decisions in Foreign Policy on PBS. In this role, he interviewed heads of state, Nobel laureates, foreign ministers, international religious figures and other key players on the global stage. He also produced the 2009 documentary "From Pharaohs to Facebook: Egypt Today," and has been a frequent contributor of opinion and analysis for U.S. News & World Report and The Huffington Post.
A former Peace Corps volunteer in Zimbabwe, Robert is the author of "The Quest for African Unity: 50 Years of Independence and Interdependence," a monograph about the African Union, and he’s written extensively on African politics, transatlantic relations, the United Nations, and public engagement on U.S. foreign policy.
He was also director of communications at the University of San Francisco's St. Ignatius Parish, one of the city's most iconic churches founded in 1914, where he created and executed strategic communications for a successful $25 million capital development campaign.
Robert was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a member of Network 20/20 and Service Year Alliance. He is an alumnus of the European Union Visitors Program, served as a U.S. delegate to the Atlantic Council’s “Young Atlanticist” convening at the 2010 NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal and was awarded a Democracy Fellowship by the Polish Foreign Ministry.
Specialties: Strategic Communications, Content Creation, Digital Marketing, Television/Web Production, Writing and Reporting, Photography, African Affairs, Global Music, French
