Global Alliance appoints Justin Green as Chief Executive Officer
The Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management has created the position of Chief Executive Officer. The current President, Justin Green, is taking on the additional role of chief executive with a focus on delivering the programme of activity, ensuring the flow of income and managing stakeholder relationships. He will be working with Mateus Furlanetto who continues his role as Chief Administrative Officer.
Justin Green joined Global Alliance in 2017 as a board member. He was elected President in 2019 and was re-elected President in 2021 for another two-year term. Global Alliance has doubled its membership numbers, enhanced membership benefits, established a global Accreditation for academic and training organization and opened five offices in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America and Latin America, under his leadership.
His global leadership was recognised in 2019 by the Public Relations Society of America with their Lifetime Achievement Award in International Public Relations and by the European Institute of Communications with their Lifetime Achievement for Excellence in Public Relations Award. In January 2021, the Public Relations Society of Kenya awarded Justin their World Excellence in Public Relations Award.
The world communications profession has honoured and appointed Justin as Global Ambassador & Honorary Life Fellow to the African Public Relations Association, Brazilian Association for Business Communication, Asian Public Relations Network, China’s Public Relations Global Communications, European Institute of Communications, Portuguese Association for Corporate Communications, Spain’s Corporate Excellence Centre for Reputation Leadership, Kenya’s Peterson Integrated Communications and to the Public Relations Society of Kenya.
He is CEO of Dublin, Ireland-based Wide Awake Communications which he founded in 2011 and a director of public relations agencies in both Kenya and Nigeria.