Susan Rita Ruel

About Susan Rita Ruel

Communications Professional, Electronic/Print Journalist with stellar accomplishments in internal/external communications, recognition programs, digital media & public affairs, including creation of innovative Intranet websites for McKinsey, IBM, and a large NYC not-for-profit home healthcare agency; global experience as online/print wire-service correspondent and World Desk editor; researcher/writer & consultant for UN; former professor who has lectured widely and authored books on U.S. media; Fulbright scholar (Africa); Mandarin speaker. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: • Played key communications and editorial roles at IBM and McKinsey, developing and launching Intranet websites. At IBM, saved annually by switching to electronic publication. At McKinsey, personally contributed 100+ articles and several special issues (from Brazil, China, & Day in the Life of McKinsey); • Designed communications strategies for UN agency, IBM, and (at Edelman Public Relations) governments of India, Taiwan, etc,(personally negotiating and developing Taiwan’s program); • Reported, wrote articles, and sometimes photographed in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and Caribbean for UN, UNICEF, travel section of New York Post, Time Inc, People, Reason, Downbeat, and other magazines; • Broke exclusive stories as reporter/World Desk editor (AP and UPI): e.g, scoops on smuggled prison diary of leading Chinese dissident, U.S. citizen arrested for spying in China, etc.

Experience

1. Health Editor (Hematology Oncology) Medscape Mdedge

   Mdedge

   Sep 2021 — Present · NY, US

Education

• University of Denver

  PhD, Writing and Literature

• Harvard University

  B.A., English and American Literature

• Indiana University Bloomington

  M.A., Writing and Literature (English)