Michelle S. Giuda is the founding CEO of the Krach Institute for
Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University, a policy and strategy
organization operating at the intersection of technology, national
security, and foreign policy.
Giuda was appointed by President Trump and served as U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State for Global Public Affairs from 2018
to 2020, where she also held the authorities of the Under
Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. In
2019, she led the largest restructuring of the State Department in twenty years, creating the
Bureau of Global Public Affairs and modernizing the Department's public diplomacy
capabilities.
Prior to her government service, Giuda was Senior Vice President of Global Corporate
Communications at Weber Shandwick, and following her government service, she returned to
Weber Shandwick as Executive Vice President of Geopolitical Strategy & Risk. She began her
career as Deputy Press Secretary for former Speaker of the House and presidential candidate
Newt Gingrich.
In 2023, Giuda was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to the International Broadcast
Advisory Board of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. She currently serves as a Nonresident
Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a member of Business Executives for National Security
(BENS), Senior Advisor to Concordia, and an Advisory Board member of the American Foreign
Policy Council (AFPC).
In 2022, she was named to the Ad Age 40 Under 40 List, PRovoke Media’s Innovator 25 List,
and was honored in 2016 with the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Award by the
Asian American Business Development Center.
Giuda holds a Master's in Political Management from George Washington University and a B.A.
in Political Science from UCLA, where she was an NCAA Team Champion and team captain of
the UCLA Women's Gymnastics Team