Bill Nielsen to Deliver Annual Distinguished Lecture
"The Character of Public Relations at 2005"
The lecture will take place Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005, at the historic Yale Club in New York City, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tickets and tables for the event can be purchased by visiting the Institute's website, www.instituteforpr.org, or calling 352-392-0280. Tickets are $300 each or $3,000 for a table of 10, including cocktail reception, dinner and lecture.
The event is sponsored in part by the biopharmaceutical company Cephalon, Inc. "Bill Nielsen's 30-year career offers testimony to the character of this profession at its best, and this event promises another thoughtful addition to 'the science beneath the art of public relations,'" said Robert W. Grupp, vice president-corporate and public affairs for Cephalon and a Trustee of the Institute.
The evening will also include presentation of awards and scholarships for outstanding achievements in public relations education and research, and the Alexander Hamilton Medal for life-time contributions to the public relations profession.
Nielsen joined Johnson & Johnson in 1988, following an 18-year career as a public relations agency consultant, first with Carl Byoir & Associates and then Hill and Knowlton. His professional accomplishments include leadership of a 10-year, nationwide child injury prevention campaign that reduced the rate of unintended injury and death by nearly 30 percent. He served two terms as president of the Arthur W. Page Society and was inducted into that organization's Hall of Fame in September 2003. He was also Chairman of The Public Relations Seminar. He served on the Board and the Executive Committee of the Global Public Affairs Institute. Four PRSA Silver Anvils have been awarded to programs he either managed or supervised. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Josephson Institute of Ethics and a Trustee of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. He also served on the Board of the Foundation of Children's Hospital, National Medical Center, Washington, D.C. for eight years.
The Institute for Public Relations is an independent nonprofit dedicated to the science beneath the art of public relations. The organization exists to build and document the intellectual foundations of public relations, and to mainstream this knowledge by making it available and useful to practitioners, educators, researchers and client organizations.
Founded in 1987, Cephalon, Inc. is an international biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development and marketing of innovative products to treat sleep and neurological disorders, cancer and pain. Cephalon currently employs approximately 2,300 people in the United States and Europe. For more information, www.cephalon.com.
Photo of Mr. Nielsen available on request.
