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Craig Snyder is President and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia. Mr. Snyder had two previous positions at the World Affairs Council, serving as program director from 1983-89 and vice president of programming in 1991.
Craig graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., Philosophy and Political Economy, ’83) and earned a J.D. from Temple University School of Law in 1989. He served as a Commercial Litigation attorney at Dechert from 1989-91. He twice ran for public office – once for the Pennsylvania General Assembly (1990) and once for the U.S. House of Representatives (1992).
In 1997, he founded IKON Public Affairs. It has represented not-for-profit, corporate and political campaign clients, including many prominent Philadelphia civic and cultural institutions. One of the firm’s long-standing clients has been Autism Speaks, for whom IKON helped secure the passage of four major pieces of federal legislation and autism insurance reform legislation in 31 states.