Nominations open July 16 - November 4, 2009 PublicAffairsAsia has unveiled the categories and preliminary judging panel for the inaugural Gold Standard Awards for public policy, government relations and corporate communications.
The Gold Standard Awards will recognise excellence by corporations, governments and NGOs and are the first of their kind in Asia.
Following the announcement of the winners in January 2010, participants will be invited to a series of “knowledge exchange” and networking events around Asia.
The awards, operated by PublicAffairsAsia magazine, will showcase best-practice among public affairs and public policy professionals and were planned after wide consultation with PublicAffairsAsia's advisory board.
The programme is built around peer-to-peer learning and the exchange of best practice. Categories in the awards programme include Government Relations, Crisis Communications and Trade and Investment promotion.
Government bodies will be engaged through categories such as Transparency, sustainability and the use of social media as a PA tool.
Award partners and sponsors will be announced in early July, before the nominations process is formally opened on July 13.
Top level judges
PublicAffairsAsia is assembling an unrivalled group of senior figures from business, consultancies, government bodies, NGOs and trade missions to form the judging panels.
The final group, which is the nucleus of the Gold Standard Awards, will number around 40 top-level professionals.
Between now and the close of nominations, PublicAffairsAsia will use the Augure stakeholder management system to promote the Gold Standard Awards to over 60,000 Asian decision-makers in addition to our global audience of PA professionals working in corporations, governments, trade bodies, chambers and NGOs.
Nominations for the Gold Standard Awards open on July 13 and close in November: giving corporations, consultancies, NGOs, trade missions, chambers of commerce and government agencies an opportunity to frame entries across 11 categories.
“With a judging panel of over 30 senior public affairs figures, the Gold Standard Awards programme is built upon the principles of peer review and knowledge transfer,” said publisher Mark O’Brien.
Judges for the inaugural awards programme include leading China PR and government affairs expert Margaret Ya-Fei Yu, and Steve Okun, UPS government relations chief and chairman of the American chamber of commerce in Singapore.
Other judges include Edelman’s Alan VanderMolen, APCO’s Mark Michelson and Weber Shandwick’s John Russell. Animals Asia campaign chief Jill Robinson and former British deputy high commissioner to India Mark Runacres are also among the top-level judging panel.
FOR MORE INFORMATION Visit the website of The Gold Standard Awards
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