June 7 - Corporate Communication International

Conference on Corporate Communication 2011
as a founding member, and has served on the Board of Directors for the New York Chapter of the
International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).
Rachel Kovacs has taught since 2006 at the City University of New York (CUNY). She is currently a fulltime
Adjunct Associate Professor at the College of Staten Island and John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
CUNY. She has taught Public Relations, Corporate Communication, Media Writing, History of Print
Media, Media Analysis, Media Industries, Introduction to Media, and Introduction to Communication at
CSI, as well as Criminal Justice and the Media and Public Speaking at John Jay. She has also been an
adjunct professor at several private New York and public New Jersey colleges and universities, where she
has taught writing, women's studies, and communication courses. Dr. Kovacs formerly taught at Fairleigh
Dickinson University, the University of Hartford, and Bradley University. At Hartford and Bradley, Dr.
Kovacs was advisor to the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) chapters; she headed
Hartford's public relations emphasis and directed its 2001, award-winning PRSSA entry in the national
Bateman Competition. She received two Interdisciplinary Top Paper Awards (PRSA Educators Academy,
1999; Institute for Public Relations [IPR], 2001) for her studies in British broadcasting activism. Since the
mid-1990s, Dr. Kovacs has lectured, presented, and published, in the U.S. and abroad, on international
broadcasting, NGO activism, and cultural integrity in the U.K. She was awarded a 2001 Yale Visiting
Faculty Fellowship, during which time she conducted research on international broadcasting regulation and
activism at the Law and other Yale Libraries, nations and regions. Her most current research projects have
focused on CSR and ethics. Formerly Assistant Editor of the Journal of Communication and Assistant
Director of the University of Maryland Writing Center, Dr. Kovacs has lived, studied, and traveled
extensively in the U.K. and Europe.
Liang-Tong Lau is a final-year undergraduate at Nanyang Technological University’s Wee Kim Wee
School of Communication and Information, Singapore. She specializes in Public Relations and Journalism,
and is currently on a six-month exchange program at the University of Washington, Seattle. In her last
internship, she was involved in publicity efforts for Singapore’s inaugural Youth Olympic Game’s Opening
and Closing Ceremonies (2010). She also interned at Public Relations agency GolinHarris International,
servicing accounts covering corporate, consumer, healthcare and government/public affairs (2009), and
spent half a year in Hong Kong as an editorial intern with regional travel magazines Business Traveller
Asia-Pacific and MIX (2008). Prior to her exchange, Lau was the sub-editor for her school newspaper
Nanyang Chronicle and was active in school ambassadorial activities. She graduated from Ngee Ann
Polytechnic’s Mass Communication with a Diploma with merit.
Bo Laursen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Business Communication at the Aarhus School
of Business, University of Aarhus, Denmark, where he teaches public relations and organizational
communication. He holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus.
Between 1999 and 2009 he worked in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union in
Brussels, Belgium, first as a translator and later as a press officer. His research interests are public relations
and in particular media relations and corporate social responsibility communication. He has published
various articles in the field of linguistics.
John S. Leipzig, Ph.D., enjoyed a successful academic career at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks
(UAF), where he was awarded the titles of Professor of Communication, Emeritus and Dean of the College
of Liberal Arts, and Emeritus at UAF 's commencement ceremonies in 2003. He was one of the founders of
the UAF Faculty Senate and served as the Senate's second president. As a Department Head, he helped to
create and taught in the M.A. in Professional Communication program. Dr. Leipzig is a life member as well
as a Past President of the Northwest Communication Association and currently serves on the Board of
Advisors of Corporate Communication International (CCI) at Baruch College/CUNY. From 2002-2005,
Dr. Leipzig served as the Chancellor of the St. Thomas Campus of the University of the Virgin Islands,
where he also held a tenured appointment as Professor of Communication. From January through March of
2006, he served as a Visiting Scholar in Corporate Communication at the University of Johannesburg in
South Africa, lecturing there as well as serving as a guest speaker on leadership communication at the
University of Pretoria and North-West University. He continues to serve on the editorial board
of COMMUNICARE: Journal for the Communication Sciences in Southern Africa. From June 2006
through December 2009, Dr. Leipzig was the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation Leadership Chair
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