{"id":126949,"date":"2019-11-27T15:24:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T14:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=126949"},"modified":"2019-11-27T15:24:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T14:24:15","slug":"weber-shandwicks-rachel-friend-elected-prca-2020-2022-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/weber-shandwicks-rachel-friend-elected-prca-2020-2022-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Weber Shandwick\u2019s Rachel Friend Elected PRCA 2020-2022 Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has elected Rachel Friend, CEO of UK &amp; Ireland, Weber Shandwick, as its 2020-2022 Chairman, following a vote at the AGM.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friend is responsible for Weber Shandwick\u2019s network of offices across the UK. With over 20 years\u2019 experience in the industry, she has spearheaded marketing and communications campaigns some of the world\u2019s leading brands.<\/p>\n<p>Friend will succeed Jim Donaldson when his term as Chairman concludes Autumn 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Ingham, Director-General of the PRCA said: \u2018It\u2019s a sign of the PRCA\u2019s strength and size that someone of Rachel\u2019s global standing will become our Chairman in 2020. In following Jim Donaldson, she will oversee the next phase of the PRCA\u2019s story, as we build on our status as by far the world\u2019s largest and most dynamic PR association.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Friend said: \u2018I am pleased to take on the role of Chairman of the PRCA. We are living through a period of unprecedented change; politics, sustainability, diversity, technology. \u00a0Our industry must continue to evolve at a rapid pace to engage audiences. \u00a0I\u2019m very much looking forward to working with the PRCA to fuel the change.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has elected Rachel Friend, CEO of UK &#038; Ireland, Weber Shandwick, as its 2020-2022 Chairman, following a vote at the AGM.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":126950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7365,7272],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126952,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126949\/revisions\/126952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}