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Waggener Edstrom PRCA Yearbook 2004

Waggener Edstrom
===Contact===
*David Ingle
===Address===
:Descartes House
:First Floor
:8 Gate Street
:London WC2A 3HP
:Telephone: 020 7269 4770
:Fax: 02072694771
:Email: davidi@wagged.com
:Website: www.wagged.com
===Quality Assessment Achieved===
:N/A
===Business Commenced===
:2001
===Employees===
: 21
==Range of Services==
One of the largest independent public relations firms in the world, Waggener Edstrom founded its first European office in 1998 with an aim to serve Europe’s foremost technology pioneers. With deep roots in the high technology sector, the firm today also offers expertise in the science sector and beyond.
Waggener Edstrom has extensive experience working with both large and small companies that need global messaging. We work with clients on a variety of levels to establish international and local campaigns that make a difference. This can be at global headquarters, at the regional level or on the ground in individual markets. While there is a common bond between European states, there are key differences in the way people live their lives at home and in the workplace. Waggener Edstrom’s European teams recognize this and apply their expert knowledge to ensure straightforward communications — whether local, continental or global.
Waggener Edstrom Europe has the entrepreneurial flair of a start—up, meshed with the longstanding expertise and resources of its U.S. parent. As industry specialists, Waggener Edstrom’s European teams have inherited the same passion for science, technology and PR that their U.S. colleagues have developed over nearly two decades.
===Fee Income===
:£1,100,001 - 1,200,000
*An Associate Member of the PRCA
==Current Clients==
*Alcatel
*Global Knowledge
*MasterCard International
*Microsoft
*Motion Computing Inc
*Philips Dictation Systems
: * = client retained for more than three years
: ** = client retained for more than five years
==Ad Hoc Clients==
:N/A
==Partners / Directors==
*Melissa Waggener Zorkin, D, FT BA, 1983 CEO
*Michael Bigelow, D, Ft, BSc, CPA, 199.? CFO
*Claire Lematta, D, FT BSc, A’IJPR, 1987 EVP Europe
===Holders of Public Office===
:None
==Parent or Principal Company==
*Waggener Edstrom Inc
===Subsidiary Companies===
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===Associate Companies===
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===Overseas Owned Offices Within===
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Category:PRCA Yearbook
Waggener Edstrom Worldwide

Waggener Edstrom are a public relations agency, founded in 1983 and with offices in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the USA. They work mainly with technology companies and have done a lot of work with Bill Gates and Microsoft throughout their history.
==Background==
Timeline of Waggener Edstrom's history:
:*1983 - Melissa Waggener Zorkin creates The Waggener Group in Portland, Oregon.
:*1984 - Pam Edstrom joins the company.
:*1990 - Pam Edstrom awarded a partnership in the company and Waggener Group becomes Waggener Edstrom.
:*2000 - Waggener Edstrom Bioscience, now the Healthcare practice, formed.
:*2001 - London office opened.
:*2003 - Purchase New-York based PR firm Maloney & Fox.
:*2005 - Acquire Shout Holdings Limited, which has offices in Hong Kong, China and Singapore.
:*2005 - Name changed to Waggener Edstrom Worldwide Timeline Waggener Edstrom, accessed 4 November 2014 
==APPC==
Waggener Edstrom are not members of the Association of Professional Political Consultants, therefore their clients and staff do not appear on the registers.
==People==
*Melissa Waggener Zorkin, CEO, president and founder
*Pam Edstrom, agency partner and co-founder, North America technology leader
*Julie Allport, executive vice president, chief of staff
*Dawn Beauparlant, president, Microsoft account
*Michael Bigelow, chief administrative officer
*Jennifer Granston Foster, chief operating officer
*Corey Kalbfleisch, chief financial officer
*Chris Talago, executive vice eresident, EMEA
*Matthew Lackie, senior vice president, Asia Pacific Leadership Waggener Edstrom, accessed 4 November 2014 
==Clients==
Abbott | Avanade | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | Bing | BMC Software | Casio | Chevron | Clinton Foundation | Connected Car Pavilion | Earth Networks | Emergent Biosolutions | GE Healthcare | Get Fit | GIPC | Half the Sky | Hey Big Fish Web App | HTC | Jagermeister | Nethope Academy | Net Impact | Microsoft | Office 365 | Pfizer | Sasquatch Music Festival | Shire | Staples | Texas Instruments DLP | Trilogy International Partners | United Nations Foundation | Tweet-A-Beer | Unicef | Volvo | Women for Women International | Xplore Technologies What we do, our work Waggener Edstrom, accessed 4 November 2014 What we do, clients Waggener Edstrom, accessed 4 November 2014 
===Former clients===
Symantec Corp | Mentor Graphics | Mindset Software | Sequent Computer Systems | IBM Personal Systems | Data I/O Corp | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | Dell Computer Corp | Scientific American Inc | Disney Interactive | Virgin Interactive | Sega Corp | EMI Record Group | SAP AG | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | VoiceStream Wireless (now T-mobile) |MSR Cambridge | DLP | Zappar | Johns Hopkins International Medical Center | Cloudant | Skype | Akamai | GameStop
==Publications, Contact, Resources and Notes==
===Publications===
===Contact===
====London Office====
:Address: Tower House
:Fourth Floor
:10 Southampton Street
:Covent Garden
:London, WC2E 7HA
:United Kingdom
:Phone: +44 20 7632 3800
:Email: careers@waggeneredstrom.com
:Website: http://waggeneredstrom.com/
===Resources===
===Notes===
Category:Lobbying
Waheed Alli

Lord Waheed Alli is the multi-millionaire founder and former Managing Director of Planet 24 Television, the makers of the Big Breakfast and The Word. BBC, Profile: Lord Waheed Alli He and his partner, Charlie Parsons, made £5 million each when Planet 24 was sold to Carlton in March 1999. He is now Managing Director of Production at Carlton, considered an important New Labour asset by the Chairman, Michael Green (a friend of Margaret Thatcher). He has made Labour Party election broadcasts for free and Planet 24 gave the Labour Party £12,500 in 1998. Alli, the former Head of Investment Research at Save & Prosper, was given his peerage in the same year. Available through: Red Star Research search function
==Affiliations==
* Panel 2000
* Creative Industries Task Force
* Matthew Freud
* Robert Bourne
* Baroness McDonagh
==Donations==
Date
Name of donor
Amount
Donated to
Subsidiary (parties only)
08/11/2004
Lord Waheed Alli
£9,200.00
Labour Party
Scottish Labour Party
31/03/2005
Lord Waheed Alli
£600.00
Labour Party
Central Party
28/01/2005
Lord Waheed Alli
£5,000.00
Labour Party
Islington South and Finsbury CLP
01/04/2005
Lord Waheed Alli
£15,000.00
Labour Party
Central Party
01/04/2005
Lord Waheed Alli
£1,400.00
Labour Party
Central Party
01/09/2005
Lord Waheed Alli
£10,000.00
The Rt Hon David Lammy MP
18/08/2005
Lord Waheed Alli
£1,000.00
Labour Party
Central Party
06/07/2005
Lord Waheed Alli
£775.00
Labour Party
Central Party
11/06/2007
Lord Waheed Alli
£10,000.00
The Rt Hon David Lammy MP
02/09/2008
Lord Waheed Alli
£1,320.00
Labour Party
Central Party
10/11/2008
Lord Waheed Alli
£10,000.00
Labour Party
Mitcham and Morden CLP
09/11/2009
BM Creative Limited, C/O WAHEED ALLI
£10,000.00
Labour Party
Islington South and Finsbury CLP
22/03/2010
BM Creative management Ltd, c/o Waheed Alli
£5,000.00	
The Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP
24/09/2010
Waheed Alli
£10,000.00
The Rt Hon David Miliband MP
Central Party
14/01/2013
Lord Waheed Alli
£15,000.00
Labour Party
Central Party
03/05/2013
Lord Waheed Alli
£1,000.00
Labour Party
Central Party
21/08/2013
Lord Waheed Alli
£911.00
Labour Party
Central Party
31/12/2013
Lord Waheed Alli
£15,000.00
Labour Party
Central Party
10/10/2014
Lord Waheed Alli
£21,000.00
Labour Party
Central Party
11/12/2014
Lord Waheed Alli
£5,000.00
Labour Party
Cities of Brighton and Hove
 Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 9 March 2015 
===Labour leadership contest===
In May 2015, Alli donated £2,000 to support Liz Kendall's campaign to succeed Ed Miliband as leader of the Labour Party. Parliament.uk Liz Kendall, accessed 21 July 2015.
==References==
Alli, Waheed
Alli, Waheed
Alli, Waheed
Wahied Wahdat-Hagh

Wahied Wahdat-Hagh (born 20 October 1957) is a German-Iranian neocon scholar based in Berlin. He is a senior fellow with the European Foundation for Democracy and was previously an approved expert listed by the London based neocon project Réalité EU. He is also an online contributor with the German conservative daily Die Welt.
==Background==
Wahdat-Hagh was born in Ludwigsburg, Germany on 20 October 1957. Welt Online, Debatte > Autoren > Wahied Wahdat-Hagh, accessed 9 July 2009 According to a CV posted in January 2007 Wahdat-Hagh's parents were Iranian and he lived in Tehran for a number of years during his childhood. Internet Archive, REALITE-EU - Expert Sources, 23 January 2007 The website of the European Foundation for Democracy however describes him as 'an Iranian scholar based in Germany', European Foundation for Democracy, The Team, EFD Website, Accessed 03-June-2009 and the first reference to Wahdat-Hagh on the newspaper database Lexis Nexis (in the German daily Frankfurter Rundschau on 1 April 2003), described him as an author and an Iranian exile. Von Rolf Paasch, 'Balanceakt auf der "Achse des Bösen"', Frankfurter Rundschau, 1 April 2003
According to a CV posted in January 2007 Wahdat-Hagh 'holds degrees in political scientist and sociologist [sic]' and 'earned his doctorate at the Freie Universitat in Berlin'. Internet Archive, REALITE-EU - Expert Sources, 23 January 2007 His PhD disseration which was published as a book in 2003 was titled: 'Die islamische Republik Iran: die Herrschaft des politischen Islam als eine Spielart des Totalitarismus' or 'The Islamic Republic of Iran: The Rule of Political Islam as a Form of Totalitarianism.' 
Wahdat-Hagh was previously listed as an approved 'expert' on the neocon website Réalité EU where he was described as 'an expert on Iran terror, Basiji movement and the recruitment of European terror cells.'
According to his European Foundation for Democracy 'he writes regular columns in the German media addressing the threat of Iran as well as violations of human rights and minority rights. He is also consulted on a regular basis by media and policy-makers.' European Foundation for Democracy, The Team, EFD Website, Accessed 03-June-2009
==Affiliations==
:European Foundation for Democracy
:Réalité EU, former 'Expert Source'
==Notes==
Wahdat-Hagh, Wahied
Waldorf Astor

Waldorf Astor (1879-1952), the second Viscount Astor was MP for Plymouth from 1910 until 1919, when he retired from public life having succeeded to his father's title. He was proprietor of The Observer 1919-1945.Papers of Waldorf Astor, University of Reading, accessed 30 October 2012.
==Notes==
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Waleed Ziad

Waleed Ziad, a Pakistani, is the son of a World Bank official who, according to Topf, led the "first World Bank mission into Russia with a group of Texas oil men". Ziad is a a principal at the Truman National Security Project, a think-tank that "envisions a Democratic Party that is preeminent in national security once again". It's advisory board is composed of individuals from various right-wing think-tanks, from the Hoover Institution to the Council on Foreign Relations. According to its founder Rachel Kleinfeld the organization was set up "very much as a counterpart to the neoconservatives of the 1970s". 
A biographical note on the center's website states that Ziad "is currently an Economist with Deloitte & Touche's International Economics Group in Washington, D.C. He was a consultant in Eastern Europe on public sector restructuring with Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young, and continues to advise and work with major grassroots development initiatives in Pakistan." 
Ziad has written for the New York Times, International Herald Tribune and The News (Pakistan). In one of these articles Ziad writes: 
 
:Yes, the Muslim world had an unfortunate introduction to post-Enlightenment ideals, which came in the context of invasion, colonialism and exploitation. But the Arab philosophical and political movement that came out of that experience was not inherently anti-Western. In fact, in traditional Islamic thought the concept of violent resistance against an unjust ruler was virtually unheard of; for classical jurists, tyranny was preferable to the anarchy that accompanies revolt...
 
:At the same time, our corporations should guide local entrepreneurs to promote a free market, the backbone of democracy. If anything is going to come of the neoconservative hope of making Iraq into a beacon of our values, it will be along these lines. (emphasis added)
In another article, Ziad offers advice on opening a new front in the War on Terror: "Permanently dislodging these extremists calls for educational, economic and cultural development" through funding "functional education" and "real economic opportunities" with "Western money"(emphasis added) so that the US is seen not as an occupier but a "purveyor of prosperity".
Walid al-Kubaisi

300px|thumb|right|Walid al-Kubaisi, Source: [http://knirk.no/2012/11/bokhammam-pa-rumifestivalen-i-oslo-pa-sondag/ Knirk] 
Walid al-Kubaisi is a Norway-based, Iraq-born proponent of the Eurabia thesis who was cited in Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik's 'Manifesto - 2083: A European Declaration of Independence'. 
Norwegian anthropologist Sindre Bangstad notes: 
:Walid al-Kubaisi (1958 -), an Iraqi-born atheist, writer, and propagator of Eurabia-views, confirmed to the reporter in question that “Islamists” were behind this attack. To Finansavisen the next day, he solemnly declared that he had for a long time “anticipated this”, and that one should now ask Norwegian Islamists (read: most Muslims, for the lines are extremely blurred in al-Kubaisi’s public fantasies) to “integrate, or get out.”Sindre Bangstad, Norway: terror and Islamophobia in the mirror, openDemocracy, 22 August 2011
==Notes==
al-Kubaisi, Walid
al-Kubaisi, Walid
al-Kubaisi, Walid
al-Kubaisi, Walid
Walkers

Walkers is an offshore law firm, dubbed one of the "Offshore Magic Circle" of law firms. It provides legal and management services: "The Walkers Group comprises leading International Financial Centre law firm, Walkers and Walkers Management Services, which specialises in corporate and fiduciary services."Walkers, About Us, accessed April 2011
It has offices in the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Delaware, Dubai, Dublin, Hong Kong, Jersey, London and Singapore.
==Contacts==
London office:
6 Gracechurch Street
London, EC3V 0AT
Website: http://www.walkersglobal.com
==References==
Category:Law FirmsCategory: Financial sector lobbyingCategory:Tax avoidance
Walter Bedell Smith

General Walter Bedell Smith served as Chief of Staff to Dwight Eisenhower during World War Two. He served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1948, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1950 to 1953.Walter Bedell Smith (1946-1948), Embassy of the United States - Moscow, accessed 25 May 2012.
 
==affiliations==
*American Committee for a United Europe
*Central Intelligence Agency
==Notes==
Bedell Smith, Walter
Bedell Smith, Walter
Walter Bell

Walter Bell was a former barrister who helped to run the MI6 office in New York prior to World War Two. During the war he joined British Security Coordination where he worked closely with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). On his return to London, he became MI6 liaison officer with OSS.Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Fourth Estate Limited, 2000, p.51.
Bell returned to Washington in 1945 as First Secretary to the British Ambassador, Lord Inverchapel.Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Fourth Estate Limited, 2000, p.53.
==External resources==
*NameBase: BELL WALTER
==Notes==
Bell, WalterBell, Walter
Walter Citrine

Walter Citrine (1887-1983) was General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress 1926-1946.David Butler and Gareth Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900-2000, Macmillan, 2000, pp.387-388.
Citrine was President of the International Federation of Trade Unions 1928-1945.Walter Citrine, The Union Makes Us Strong, TUC History, London Metropolitan University, accessed 26 September 2013.
==Notes==
Citrine, Walter
Walter Eucken Institut

A German liberal economic think tank located in Freiburg im Brisgau.
The Walter Eucken Institute was founded on 11th January 1954 in Freiburg im Breisgau, four years after the death of Walter Eucken, by a number of his friends and pupils. The Institute's creation was supported by Professor Dr. Ludwig Erhard, then Secretary of Economic Affairs. The Institute is privately structured as an independent registered society, with a board of directors, a committee of trustees and the general member meeting. From 1964 to 1970, Professor Friedrich A. von Hayek was a member of the board and from 1970 until his death he was Honorary President of the Institute. Presently, Professor James Buchanan is the Institute's Honorary President.
The Walter Eucken Institute is an independent economic research institution dealing with constitutional and institutional questions in economics and social sciences. The Institute puts a great emphasis on the solution of problems crucial for preserving and developing a free market order. By ways of lectures, conferences and publications, the Institute serves the goal of explaining the characteristics of a free economic and social order to the public, thus seeking to promote an understanding of economic and social phenomena.
The main task of the Institute in the future will be to work as a major centre for basic research on classical liberal ideas and their institutional realisation. Our work is inspired by a special emphasis on the connection between the Freiburg School of Law and Economics, founded by Walter Eucken and Franz Böhm with the evolutionary constitutionalism of Friedrich A. von Hayek and the constitutional political economy of James M. Buchanan. In addition, the ordoliberal research agenda tries to find answers for questions dealing with an international economic order as well as an economic constitution of the European Union.
Official website: http://www.walter-eucken-institut.de
==Notes==
Walter Hamilton

Walter Hamilton is a British National Party activist and candidate for Glasgow North East in the 2010 General Election.BNP BNP Scotland Runs 14 Candidates, Qualifies for Election Broadcast April 4, 2010, accessed 6 April 2010
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Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson (born May 20, 1952) is a writer and biographer. He is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of TIME. 
In 2009 he was appointed by President Obama to be Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which runs Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and the other international broadcasts of the U.S. government.The White House, President Obama announces new appointments, November 18, 2009, accessed 23 February 2011. 
Originally of New Orleans, Isaacson was educated at Harvard and studied as a Rhodes scholar at Pembroke College, Oxford. His first journalistic role was with Britain's Sunday Times.
Isaacson joined Time magazine in 1978, where he would remain for twenty-three years as political correspondent, national editor, and new media editor, being appointed editor of Time in 1996. In 2001 he was appointed CEO and chairman of CNN, also part of the Time Warner group.
==Notes==
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Walter J. Schloss

==Background==
Walter J. Schloss - Chartered Financial Analyst and partner in firm Walter & Edwin Schloss Associates LP for over 47 years (in 2009). He previously worked for investment company Graham-Newman Corporation. Schloss is on the Board of Trustees with Freedom House, where he has been a member for over 30 yearsFreedom House Board of Trustees Accessed 15th May 2009
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Category:Think Tanker
Walter Paepcke

Walter Paepcke (1896–1960) was an executive of the Chicago-based Container Corporation of America, and founder of the Aspen Institute.
In 1922 he married Elizabeth Nitze. Her brother, Paul Nitze, later became head of Policy Planning in the State Department.
In 1949 Paepcke made Aspen, Colorado the site for a celebration of the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Albert Schweitzer, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Thornton Wilder, and Artur Rubinstein all attended the celebration. The next year, Paepcke created what is now the Aspen Institute.
Paepcke hired Bauhaus designer Herbert Bayer and brought him to Aspen to promote the project through poster design and other design work; Paepcke was also the patron of fellow Bauhaus figure László Moholy-Nagy by financing the re-birth of the American New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1939. The New Bauhaus also had links to the Armour Institute of Technology. 
==References==
==External links==
*Reference to personal papers archived in the University of Chicago
Walter Purdy

Walter Purdy is Vice President of the Arlington, Virginia based Terrorism Research Center. He has developed and directed the training of law enforcement officers in areas such as Law Enforcement Response to Terrorism, Responding to WMD Incidents, Critical Incidents-Command and Control, Counter-terrorism Techniques Advanced SWAT Techniques, and Lessons Learned from Terrorism over Twenty Five Years. Mr. Purdy has undertaken a number of special projects and research projects and has supported efforts by the U.S. State Department, U.S. Department of Justice and the IACP. Mr. Purdy received a Bachelor's Degree and did graduate work at George Mason University. He later obtained a Law degree from Thomas Cooley School of Law in Lansing, Michigan. Mr. Purdy has served in the United States Marine Corps. Mr. Purdy has traveled extensively to include the Middle East, and Asia.
==Notes==
Purdy, Walter
Walter Reich

::Walter Reich is the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at The George Washington University; a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center; and a former Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.Elliot School Faculty Profile, Walter Reich, accessed 28 May 2008.
==Affiliations==
*Euston Manifesto United States
==References==
Walter Wanger

Walter Wanger was a US film producer.Mark Lincoln Chadwin, The Hawks of World War II, University of North Carolina Press, 1968, p.64.
Prior to US entry into World War Two, Lord Lothian sent John Wheeler-Bennett to Hollywood to discuss making pro-British films with him. Oneof the films Wanger made in 1940 was Alfred Hitchcock's fervently anti-Nazi Foreign Correspondent.Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.68. 
==Affiliations==
*Century Group
==Notes==
Wanger, Walter