Lucas Silva Wood

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT LUCAS SILVA WOOD

Lucas is a political strategist and a crisis management expert. With a track record of almost twenty years’ experience in strategic business communications, political communications, grassroots, brand positioning, social responsibility and reputation, Lucas crafts projects that bring back the essence of humankind at the service of personality and psychology building. This enables him to offer world-class, tailored quality results. After completing his studies on communications strategies and journalism in Chile, Lucas became a communications consultant and press advisor for the Deputy Director General and Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Santiago, Chile; he was subsequently transferred to the same office in Mexico. At a later date, Lucas began working for Burson-Marsteller (Mexico City and Miami), an international communications agency, and collaborated with the political consulting group Penn, Schoen & Berland (PSB). Lucas provided consulting, crisis management and strategic communications services to various companies, foundations, political organizations and government agencies. Nowadays, Lucas is based in Miami and provides advice to presidential candidates, head of states, political parties and government officials. At the same time, he works with several companies and organizations in Latin-America and the US. Lucas was the mastermind behind the creation of the Honduran Country Brand and its communications in the United States and the world, leading the team that won a SABRE Award for the Best Campaign in Central America and the Caribbean 2015, in addition to two consecutive tokens of recognition as one of the 100 Best Brands in Central America for Estrategia & Negocios 2015 and 2016. Lucas was born and raised in Chile, he is the author of the book “La Agricultura Chilena en el Siglo XXI” (21st Century Chilean Agriculture) and has published various opinion articles in Chile, Mexico and the United States. He loves jogging, traveling, discovering new places and learning about cultures.