Alan Capper

After an early career as a Journalist in London with the Daily Express. Alan Capper accelerated his international career by selling his public relations company to the Saatchi & Saatchi Group in 1985. After a period as Chairman of European Operations, he became Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi's global PR firm in 1992, headquartered in New York.

He has advised some of the world’s leading corporations on communications and public relations, including Procter and Gamble, Dupont, IBM, Canon, News International, Mars,Yamaha, Hewlett Packard, Johnson and Johnson, British Airways, 3M, Sandoz, and Gillette. He led the groups highly successful new business program, expansion into new services such as sponsored boadcastng, and specialized in providing personal and corporate counsel to the Chairmen and CEO’s of his clients.

He was the personal media advisor to Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber for seven years, and has advised individuals and business leaders and presidents and Prime Ministers of countries including Romania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Ghana, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and acted as the U.S. Spokesman for the Sultan of Brunei.

In 1996 he set up as a media consulktant to give communications advice to clients in media, government and finance. Capper is an authority on media, particularly television, and has worked extensively with television networks, handling media relations for the launch of Channel 4 and TV-AM in the United Kingdom and for CNN in Europe, working with Ted Turner and his European management team. He handled international media for the first United Nations World Television Forum in New York.

He has produced a number of award winning films for television and screen, including Wagner (1983), Hotel du Paradis (1988), Mozart in Japan (1989), Maria Callas (1990) and Testimony (1992), winning five awards from the New York Film and Television Festival. He is Executive Producer of “The Face of War,” the Story of Martha Gellhorn, the first woman war correspondent and wife of Ernest Hemingway, now in pre-production with MR Film Developments in Europe, and West 9th Street Productions inc. in New York.

He is the co-author of “The Public Relations Casebook”, a text book used by universities and colleges around the world, published by Kogan Page, London, now reprinted in paperback. He is currently working on his second book, “Media-Culture and revolution”.

Since February 2001 he has also been the New York correspondent for LBC 97.3 FM, one of London’s leading news radio stations and for ITN, Independent television News, particularly for ‘London Tonight’. He broke the news of the September 11th attacks on LBC and ITN two minutes after the first plane hit the World Trade Center. Since then he has broadcast to the British audience on New York and US political, social, financial and military matters. He also broadcasts regularly on WOR Radio, New York.

He is a member of the Dean's Council of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government; The National Press Club in Washington. Alan Capper is President of The Foreign Press Association in New York and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

In 2002, recognizing his experience and achievements in media, he was offered, and accepted, an Adjunct Professorship in the Culture and Communications Department of New York University.