Debora Comenalli Murray serves as Senior Managing Director for International Public Affairs at Edelman Global Advisory. She joined the company in 2008 to lead strategic communications in Brazil and transferred to Washington, DC in 2012. Today, Ms. Murray is responsible for overseeing some of EGA’s largest international public affairs and communications advisory clients, building thought leadership and issues management campaigns for clients in business, government and civil society.
Ms. Murray is experienced in international public affairs, corporate communications, thought leadership and issues management. She joined the International Public Affairs team in Washington, DC to manage several high-profile projects for Edelman internationally, including assignments for clients in the areas of sustainability, energy, climate, human rights, among others. Ms. Murray is also specialized in strategic stakeholder engagement and has directly led global risk management and corporate reputational campaigns across several countries globally, including most recently the communications campaigns for the Presidency of the G20 Summit in Argentina and the Business 20 in Saudi Arabia.
Prior to EGA, Ms. Murray led global communications in sustainability and corporate responsibility for Cargill, one of the world’s largest food and agricultural companies. She also worked for IFS, a Swedish global company that supplies business management system solutions, as marketing coordinator for Latin America.
Ms. Murray is fluent in English and Portuguese and has working language capabilities in Spanish. She has a bachelor's degree in social communications, specialized in public relations from UNESP University in Brazil, one of the top three universities in the country.