For Immediate Release, September 17, 2013
Contact: Allison Sturma, 202-429-4725

(Washington) – Peter Loge, an experienced strategic communications and legislative professional, has been named vice president for external relations for the U. S. Institute of Peace, the Institute announced today.  Loge will lead the outreach and public communications strategy of the Institute and will oversee the public affairs, public outreach, congressional affairs, and intergovernmental affairs portfolios.

“With more than two decades of experience, Peter will enhance the Institute’s ability to play a lead role in the conversation about the intersection of peacebuilding and national security,” said USIP President Jim Marshall.

Loge comes to the Institute with more than 20 years of experience in communications and legislative strategy. Most recently he was principal and founder of Milo Public Affairs where he designed and advised on communications campaigns for clients including the Solar Energy Industries Association, Oxfam America, and AmericaSpeaks.

In 2009, Loge took a leave of absence from his firm to serve as a senior policy advisor on health care to U.S. Representative Steve Kagen, M.D. (D-WI). Prior to launching Milo Public Affairs in 2007, Loge was a senior vice president at M+R Strategic Services, a national public affairs and political consulting firm. He also served as the first director of The Justice Project and as a regional field coordinator for the Concord Coalition.

Loge has extensive expertise in both communications and political strategy, including serving as the chief of staff, communications director, and campaign manager for U.S. Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA); director of constituent services for former U.S. Representative Sam Coppersmith (D-AZ); and deputy to the chief of staff for the late Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA).

Loge is an adjunct instructor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University and is an associate fellow of Timothy Dwight College at Yale University. He is a graduate of Emerson College and holds graduate degrees from Syracuse University and Arizona State University.

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