Associate Consultant: Mary Jo Jacobi

Mary Jo Jacobi applies to client projects her unique blend of brand and reputation management expertise honed in the public, private and voluntary sectors in both the UK and USA.

She is one of Her Majesty’s Civil Service Commissioners, chair of the Forensic Science Service’s Independent Advisory Board, a visiting fellow of the Leeds University Business School and a member of the advisory boards of Pittacus and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Wilton Park. Mary Jo is a non-executive director of the American Council on Germany and Benjamin Franklin House and a trustee of the Educational Trust for Russia, the Heinz Koeppler Trust and the Reform Club Conservation Charitable Trust. She also serves on the advisory boards of the Oxford University and George Washington University business schools and the Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity.

She was the chief reputation officer for some of the world’s largest corporations including Royal Dutch Shell plc, Lehman Brothers and HSBC Holdings plc, whose corporate brand strategy she devised and executed. She also held senior public affairs positions with 3M and the US’s National Association of Manufacturers. She was an executive director of Drexel Burnham Lambert, a non-executive director of Tate & Lyle PLC and the Ladies European Golf Tour and she chaired the Board of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).

Mary Jo was appointed Assistant Secretary of Commerce by US President George H W Bush and Special Assistant to US President Ronald Reagan, who also appointed her to his Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations.

She was elected to the Academy of Women Achievers and was names as one of America’s 100 Young Women of Promise for the centenary of Good Housekeeping Magazine.

She earned her MBA from the George Washington University and BBA Loyola University of New Orleans, where she was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma National Honour Fraternity.

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