Lisa Shields

Lisa has extensive media and communications experience with political, news and non-profit organizations. She leverages her strategic communications expertise for GPG clients and is also the host of Giving, a program created by a partnership between GPG and the Plum Television network. Giving profiles the work of innovative philanthropists, including many GPG clients.

Lisa is currently the Vice President for Communications and Marketing for the Council on Foreign Relations, the nation's leading foreign policy think-tank. She manages media relations for the Council , its nearly 50 scholars and president. She also oversees media strategy for its publications, award-winning website and its Foreign Affairs journal. Lisa is a life member and the former co-chair of the Term Member Advisory Council of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Prior to joining the Council on Foreign Relations, Lisa provided communications services to media and non-profit organizations including the New York State Council on the Arts, ABC News, WNET, the A&E Network, and the United Nations. As a producer, Lisa produced international events such as UNIFEM's “A World Free of Violence Against Women”, a global videoconference on the floor of the U.N. General Assembly. She worked as a producer for news programs including Barbara Walters Specials and Primetime Live for ABC News.

Lisa is on the board of directors of Global Green USA, the US chapter of the international environmental organization founded by former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev and dedicated to fostering a sustainable and secure future for humanity. Lisa graduated from the American University in Paris and holds a Master of Science from Colombia University's Graduate School of Journalism.