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Peter Parussini
Visiting professor at George Washington University’s School of Business

Peter Parussini has been involved in New Zealand’s communications industry for more than twenty years. He started his career as a journalist and worked for more than a decade in the industry, primarily with Wellington’s daily circulation broadsheet newspaperThe Evening Post and the New Zealand Press Association. In his time as a journalist he covered major international sporting events at home and abroad, and finished his career as a political reporter in the New Zealand Parliamentary Press Gallery.

On Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at 7:30 pm, Parussini delivered an address on “The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation: Into the 21st Century” in Hartness Pavilion at Furman University.

His love of politics led him to become the speech writer, and later press secretary and media advisor for former Prime Minister and World Trade Organization Secretary General Right Honorable Mike Moore. Peter’s involvement in politics led him to public office in 1992 at the age of 30, the youngest member and highest polling Labour Party candidate of the Wellington City Council.

Since early 2004, Peter has been Head of Internal Communications and Sponsorship for Telecom New Zealand Ltd, the country’s largest publicly listed company. He is currently on sabbatical from Telecom and is a visiting professor at George Washington University’s School of Business where he is teaching a graduate class in sports marketing and an undergraduate class in event management and sports business. He is also an “Executive on Loan” to Washington, DC based educational NGO, the Virtual Trade Mission.

Peter was educated at Victoria University of Wellington, the Beijing Foreign Studies University in the Peoples Republic of China and at the Wellington Polytechnic School of Journalism. He has wide interests in sports and is an active rugby union referee, as a member of Wellington’s “intermediate” squad. A native of south Auckland, Peter now lives in Wellington.