Craig Snyder

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.