Ken Rietz

Ken Rietz is Chief Operating Officer and Chair of the global public affairs practice at Burson-Marsteller. Ken Rietz career has encompassed more than 30 years in public affairs, public relations and marketing positions. Mr. Rietz now works in New York, after serving as President and CEO of Burson-Marsteller Europe. He has also been CEO of the Western Region, Global Public Affairs Practice Chair and President and CEO of the Washington Region, for B-M.

Before joining Burson-Marsteller in 1989, he was a chief legislative adviser to a senior member of Congress, deputy chairman and political director of the Republican National Committee, executive vice president of MGM Records, a founding partner in Mike Curb Productions and the strategic and media adviser to several members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He has experience in four Republican presidential campaigns. He was implicated in Nixon’s scandalous 1972 re-election campaign, for hiring agents provocateurs for demonstrations.