Institute for Public Relations

Mark Hass is President and CEO of Edelman U.S., the agency’s largest region, with more than 2,100 employees, 14 offices and $400 million in annual revenue. He also serves on the firm’s global nine-person operating committee.

Throughout his public relations career Hass has been a leader in integrating digital into the communications activities of large organizations, and he continues to champion innovative work with blogs, social networks, data mining and mobile technologies, as well as media and influencer strategies for building and managing reputation.

He served as the global CEO of Publicis Groupe’s MS&L Worldwide from 2005 to 2009, overseeing 51 offices and more than 1,200 employees and counseling top executives at companies such as General Motors, Procter & Gamble, and United Airlines. He joined MS&L Worldwide in 2002 when Publicis acquired his first agency, Hass Associates, a Michigan-based digital communications specialty firm. Before entering the public relations field, Hass worked as a reporter and editor in Washington, Miami and Detroit, where his staff won the Pulitzer Prize.

In addition to serving as a trustee of the Institute for Public Relations, Hass is also a member of the Arthur Page Society and the author of chapters in two important marketing textbooks: Reputation Management, 3rd Edition and The Handbook of Strategic Public Relations and Integrated Communications. He graduated magna cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a baccalaureate degree in contemporary American and British literature. He and his family live in New York City.