Mr. Brad Minnick
Director, Office of International Visitors
U.S. Department of State

Brad Minnick joined the U.S. Department of State in July 2007 as Director of the Office of International Visitors after five years as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL). He has been involved with the NCIV network since the early 1990s, serving as a professional resource, local and National CIV Board Member and chair of the 2004 NCIV National Meeting.

Prior to his tenure at ACYPL, Mr. Minnick spent three years as a managing director with Weber Shandwick Worldwide, a global public relations firm, where he led the firm’s public affairs and crisis practice in New England. He has conducted communications training in Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Moldova, Nigeria, and Zambia, and led seminars on communications and policy issues at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics. In 1998 and 2000, he participated in the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and in 1997 – 1998 he directed a technical assistance program to strengthen the management and communications skills of the Government of Romania, working with the offices of the President, the Prime Minister, the Cabinet and Parliament.

From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Minnick was Vice President of the Massachusetts International Trade Council where he promoted Massachusetts products and companies overseas and organized gubernatorial-led trade missions to emerging markets. He was Deputy Chief Secretary to Governor William F. Weld from 1991 to 1995, and Chief of Staff to the Minority Leader of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1987 to 1990.

Mr. Minnick has managed statewide political campaigns in Massachusetts and Michigan, and coordinated media relations for statewide campaigns in Indiana and West Virginia. He spent two years working with candidates and party officials nationwide as a communications advisor for the Republican National Committee and has served as a press secretary and advisor to several members of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.

A magna cum laude graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., Mr. Minnick holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He was a member of the National Council for International Visitors Board of Directors from 2000-2006 and the board of directors of WorldBoston from 1994-2006. In 1992 he was recognized by the Boston Jaycees as one of the city’s 10 Outstanding Youth Leaders.