Josh Block is a founding partner and principal at Davis-Block LLC. Block is a veteran communications, foreign policy and political strategist who has been involved in national politics and policy for over twenty years. Shortly after 9/11, Block joined the senior staff of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), where he was the group’s Spokesman and Director of Strategic Communications. A former Clinton Administration official and spokesman for the State Department’s U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Block got his start on Capitol Hill in the office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. A Spokesman for the Clinton/Gore and Gore/Lieberman presidential campaigns, the 1996 Presidential Inaugural Committee, the Ohio Democratic Party and several House and Senate races, Block was also the founder of Direct/IMPACT, a boutique communications firm that specialized in politics and international issues, where his clients included the United Nation’s World Health Organization, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency and several high-profile political and advocacy campaigns. Last August, Block was included by Foreign Policy Magazine in the Twitterati 100, the top 100 Foreign Policy authorities on twitter, @JoshBlockDC, and he was recently named a Senior Fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute. Block also worked in the newsrooms of three top-five market TV stations in Boston and San Francisco and hosted a radio talk show in Boston.

Quotes and Views

• Obama Said Likely to Name NSC’s Dan Shapiro as U.S. Ambassador to Israel by Nicholas Johnston and Hans Nichols, Bloomberg, Feb. 23, 2011
• Jews in U.S. Are Wary In Happiness For Egypt by Laura Goodstein, New York Times, Feb. 13, 2011

Contact

Email: jblock@davis-block.com