Mark Penn

Mark J. Penn is worldwide CEO of the PR firm Burson-Marsteller and the president of the polling firm Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates. [1]

Career

Penn also served as NPI Fellow at the New Politics Institute. He advised United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair "for his successful run for a third term." Penn is "best known for serving as President Bill Clinton's pollster and political adviser for the 1996 re-election campaign and throughout the second term of the administration. He also ran the polling and messaging and was part of the media team for the successful Senate campaign of Hillary Clinton, serving as her chief campaign adviser. He advises organizations and companies on a wide range of image, branding and competitive marketing assignments. Mark has been a key adviser to Bill Gates and Microsoft for the last 6 years." [2] [3]

2008 Clinton Campaign

• Hillary Clinton: U.S. presidential election, 2008

External Links

• James Carville and Mark J. Penn, "The Power of Hillary," Washington Post, July 2, 2006.
• Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, "A Few Degrees of Separation From Hillary Clinton's Top Adviser", Washington Post, February 20, 2007; Page A11.
• Anne E. Kornblut, "Clinton's PowerPointer. With Data and Slides, a Pollster Guides Campaign Strategy," Washington Post, April 30, 2007.
• Ari Berman "Spinning Hillary Centrist," The Nation, May 16, 2007.
• Mark Schmitt "Penn, Inc.," The American Prospect (web only), March 22, 2007.