Ray Rudowski

Regional Director, Crisis & Training

Ray currently leads Edelman’s Crisis Planning and Training practice in Asia-Pacific responsible for developing and delivering media, crisis and corporate communication training programs for clients across the region. 

Ray brings solid crisis communication and media handling insights and knowledge coupled with a deep understanding of client issues across a broad range of industries.  He has coached and trained CEO’s and senior managers of some of the biggest names in the corporate world including Motorola, Chevron, Brunei Shell Petroleum, RIM, Alcatel-Lucent, AXA, HSBC, Allied World, SK Telecom, and PetroChina.  He has developed communication strategies and crisis response plans and held message development workshops to help clients communicate their strengths more effectively to all their stakeholders. 

Before joining Edelman Hong Kong in March 2010, Ray spent 10 years at Hill & Knowlton based in Hong Kong and was Regional Director of Hill & Knowlton’s Crisis Planning and Communication Training.   He traveled extensively in the region conducting trainings and workshops in all the major centres as well as India, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Brunei.

Ray holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Video Production from York University in Toronto.  In addition to English, he speaks Spanish, French and Polish fluently and has a working knowledge of Cantonese.  His Mandarin needs work but he’s eager to practice and improve.   He is keenly interested in social networking and the possibilities it offers for raising important community issues and enabling social activism.