Michelle Giuda

Michelle S. Giuda is the CEO of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, an organization dedicated to accelerating the innovation and adoption of trusted technology. Previously, Giuda was Executive Vice President of Geopolitical Strategy & Risk at global communications firm Weber Shandwick. Giuda served as Assistant Secretary of State for Global Public Affairs from 2018 to 2020. In 2019, Secretary of State Pompeo also delegated to Giuda the authorities of the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. In this capacity, she also served as a Board Member of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. In 2019, Giuda led and executed the largest restructuring at the State Department in twenty years to create the Bureau of Global Public Affairs.