Amaudry Named Vice President of Corporate Communications, Europe, for the Walt Disney Company

Business Wire, Oct 13, 1998

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1998--Monique Amaudry has been named vice president of corporate communications, Europe, for The Walt Disney Company, it was announced Tuesday by John Dreyer, senior vice president of corporate communications, and Executive Vice President Pierre Sissman, Disney's top European executive.

In this newly created Paris-based position, Amaudry is responsible for Disney's corporate news media and financial press relations throughout Europe.

"Monique has a superb international background as a business journalist and a communications and public affairs executive," said Dreyer. "With Disney's increasing business in Europe, she will serve as the company's spokesperson there, helping formulate and communicate the company's positions on various issues. She also will provide advice and counsel to senior management on public relations issues affecting the company in Europe."

Noted Sissman: "Monique's perspectives as a journalist and a business person in the international marketplace especially qualify her for this new position. We very much look forward to her arrival on staff."

Amaudry previously was consultant and head of a country promotional program for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. Working with the news media and international investment community, she directed a program to promote business opportunities in 26 countries.

Before that, she was director of communications and public affairs for MTV Europe, and earlier was director of communications for Goldman Sachs International, Ltd. Both positions were in London.

Before moving to London, she was chief of media relations and spokesperson for International Finance Corporations in Washington, D.C. -- a private sector affiliate of the World Bank. For more than 10 years, Amaudry was a journalist, starting as an editorial assistant for McGraw-Hill World News in Paris. Later, she became an assistant editor for McGraw-Hill's "Business Week" in New York City, before moving to Washington, D.C. as associate editor of "Kiplinger Washington Letter." She then became New York correspondent for the French publication "Le Nouvel Economiste."

A native of Auvergne, France, Amaudry holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Paris and a master's degree in management from the London Business School Sloan Fellowship Programme. She is married and has one child.