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Media organizations requesting interviews or appearances should contact cpd@usc.edu,
Tel: (213) 821-2078
Head of Dillen Communications LLC
Mark E. Dillen, head of Dillen Communications, is a leading authority on international media and cross-cultural communication.
During a career with the US State Department, Dillen managed media and cultural relations for US embassies in Rome, Berlin, Moscow, Sofia and Belgrade.
He was also Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the US Embassy in Rome. From 2000-2001, he was an advisor to the State Department’s office handling assistance programs in the former Soviet Union.
In 2001-2002, he was senior media and political advisor to the US Agency for International Development in Moscow and later managed a U.S. Treasury public awareness campaign in the Russian Federation.
Also, during 2001-2002, he twice served as election observer and organizer for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) during elections in Belarus and Kosovo.
In government and private sector work, Mark has supervised budgets of up to $10 million. He has led crisis management, developed new business, lead award-winning teams and taught media and public relations seminars.
Dillen’s first trip to the then-USSR was in 1971 as an undergraduate Russian-language student at the University of Michigan. Since then he has worked and traveled extensively in Russia, the countries of the former USSR, and throughout Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
He has a Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University, where he was an International Fellow. He has been a Diplomat-in-Residence at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies of Johns Hopkins University and attended the program for Senior Managers in Government at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Dillen is a member of the German American Business Association,and the Business Association Italy America (BAIA). He has lectured at Berlin’s Freie Universitaet and many other universities in Eastern Europe.
In 1994 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of National and World Economy in Sofia for his contribution to post-Communist educational development. While in government service, he set up the first international gathering of civic education specialists, held in Prague in 1994.
While in Rome, he led the US Embassy’s organization of a five-nation summit for Clinton, Schroeder and other world leaders. Before founding Dillen Communications, Mark was a senior member of The PBN Company in Moscow, where he was responsible for the firm’s largest account, the U.S. Treasury Department, and represented PBN in its dealings with the European Roundtable of Industrialists, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and many other clients.
Prior to joining PBN, Dillen conducted research analysis for the leading Italian concern, Alenia Aerospazio. He also provided pro bono assistance to the Pushkin Charitable Foundation, which assists hospitals in St. Petersburg and offers scholarship support to young Russian artists, and to Transparency International, the anti-corruption watchdog.
Mark speaks Russian, German, Italian, Croatian, Serbian and Bulgarian.
Recent Publications by Mark Dillen
October 6, 2009 - Obama's PR Team Drops One CPD Blog
September 22, 2009 - Under Attack CPD Blog
July 21, 2009 - "Uncle" Walter and the American Image CPD Blog
July 3, 2009 - A Tale of Two Posts CPD Blog
June 15, 2009 - Pay to Play CPD Blog
June 4, 2009 - Mount Everest in Cairo CPD Blog
June 2, 2009 - Setting the Scene CPD Blog
May 28, 2009 - The U.S. Foreign Offices CPD Blog
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