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Norman Kurz
Professorial Lecturer - Congress, Media and Foreign Politics
(PSC 250.1)
President, The Kurz Company
Norm Kurz is founder and President of The Kurz Company, LLC, a Washington-based consulting firm focusing primarily on international business and public policy matters, working at the intersection of politics, policy and strategic communications. Kurz helps clients understand the dynamics of politics and media in Washington and abroad, shapes and executes foreign policy and national security messages, and positions clients to their best advantage before diverse audiences.
Since opening his firm in 2006, Kurz has worked on behalf of a consortium of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Azerbaijan dealing with sensitive regional issues and the country’s bilateral relationship with the United States; the major reformist political party in Kazakhstan; the former Prime Minister of Romania; and a range of issues concerning Israel, the Palestinians and Iran.
He also participates in an ongoing strategic communications process for the U.S. military’s Central Command (Centcom) and a similar process for Boeing’s Missile Defense development activities.
In addition, he consults to Astraea Productions and its efforts to develop and bring to market its documentary on domestic violence in the United States.
Prior to starting The Kurz Company, he served from 2000–2006 as Communications Director for U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and as senior communications and policy advisor and spokesman for Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Kurz served previously on Capitol Hill as Press Secretary to U.S. House Armed Services Committee chairman Les Aspin and Communications Director to U.S. Senator Wyche Fowler of Georgia.
Earlier in his career, Kurz was a Senior Public Relations professional in Washington, with clients including the AFL-CIO and several major labor unions, environmental groups, trial lawyers and non profit organizations. In addition, he was a founding partner at Kurz and Volk, a political consulting company whose clients included U.S. Senators Joe Lieberman, Paul Wellstone, Tim Wirth and Evan Bayh; Rhode Island Governor Bruce Sundlun; several U.S. House members and non profits.
Kurz is a graduate of UCLA and attended The Johns Hopkins University on a graduate fellowship. In addition to English, he speaks passable Hungarian, Hebrew and Spanish. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife, Mimi Guernica, an environmental attorney at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and their two sons.
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