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DAMIAN COORY
managing director

Damian Coory is the founder and Managing Director of Coory & Associates. Damian has eight years experience in crisis communications and issues management, 18 years experience as a media trainer and spent 13 years as a senior broadcast journalist. He holds an MBA from Australia's leading business school and has studied Crisis Management at Harvard University.

Since leaving television and radio in the 1990s, Damian has specialised in training, crisis communications and issues management as a Director in regional roles in Asia and Australia with two of the world's leading public relations firms.

He has trained more than 1,000 executives in 18 countries and developed and implemented crisis communications strategies, issues management programs and media spokesperson training for numerous clients including: Standard & Poor's, ABN-AMRO, Microsoft, AIG, GlaxoSmithKline, The Walt Disney Company, The Carlyle Group, Nomura, Caltex, Exxon Mobil, Unocal, Sarasin Rabobank, Jones Lang Lasalle, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Telstra, Shui On Group, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, British Telecom, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and BASF Chemicals.

Damian spent three years as a Senior News Reporter with Network Ten Australia. He was the network's Olympics-issues reporter for 12 months in the lead-up to the Sydney 2000 games, and specialised in issues-based reporting. Prior to moving to television he spent 10 years in radio. Damian hosted and produced a prime-time daily current affairs program on Brisbane 's Radio 4BC, part of Australia's leading commercial radio news network. He has also worked as a prime time news anchor and editor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, a producer at Independent Radio News' ( London ) international desk and spent two years as Brisbane News Director for Australia's Triple M FM Radio network.

Damian has an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management (Universities of Sydney and New South Wales, Australia ) and has completed an Executive Education Program in Crisis Management at the Kennedy School of Government
( Harvard University, USA )

Damian is 40 and lives in Hong Kong with his wife and two young daughters.