Gigi Georges

Managing Director

Gigi Georges is a Managing Director of The Glover Park Group. Georges has an extensive background in education policy within the public and private sectors and in political strategy. She brings to The Glover Park Group a deep understanding of complex public policy issues. Georges analyzes high-impact challenges and offers clients solutions that deliver results. She has been a chief strategist for some of New York City’s high profile public affairs campaigns and an advisor to top leaders in New York’s public policy arena.

Prior to joining The Glover Park Group, Georges served as Communications Director for the New York City Department of Education, where she was a key strategist in the development of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s reform agenda for the nation’s largest public school system. She previously served as State Director for Senator Hillary Clinton and as a Special Assistant to the President in the Clinton Administration, where she coordinated domestic policy issues for the National Economic Council. Georges has also held key roles in a number of political campaigns, including Hillary Clinton’s 2000 and 2006 Senate campaigns.

In 2008-09, Georges was a Harvard Kennedy School Visiting Fellow, and a contributing author to Stephen Goldsmith’s The Power of Social Innovation: How Civic Entrepreneurs Ignite Community Networks for Good (Jossey-Bass, 2010). She is also co-author and editor of two books: 100 Successful College Application Essays and The Harvard Independent’s Insider’s Guide to Prep Schools, both published by Penguin Books. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College, received her master’s degree in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and is a Ph.D. candidate at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service.

Georges serves on the Advisory Board of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Policy Institute for the Region at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.