As an EVP in the Weber Shandwick Corporate Advisory, Peter Carson helps devise and oversee integrated communications programs on behalf of corporations, coalitions, trade associations, government agencies, and nonprofits.  He also leads the Global Senior Advisors Council comprised of senior strategists who provide the firm’s clients with critical insights and perspectives from their areas of expertise.

Peter’s work with clients includes: corporate reputation, CEO visibility; crisis communications; third party identification and advocacy.  He has counseled clients and executives in multiple industries, including: telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, transportation & logistics, health care, food and beverage, government services, and hospitality.

In 2020, Peter led crisis communications counsel to the U.S Postal Service Postmaster General and the Executive Leadership Team. He also helped launch, the Postmaster General’s 10-year plan to modernize the agency. His work with the Postmaster General is ongoing.  In 2023, he led reputation recovery efforts with Norfolk Southern, working with the company’s C-Suite executives. Those efforts contributed to a Sabre Award for best Crisis Management in 2024.

Earlier in his career, his work with the FDIC was awarded PR Week’s “Public Sector Campaign of the Year.”  Following the great recession, he led a team hired by Bank of America to focus on reputation recovery.  And his work managing a coalition that successfully fought for new federal legislation, signed into law by President Obama to combat unregulated pharmaceutical manufacturing, was recognized by both the Holmes Report and PR News as a top Public Affairs Campaign.
 
Peter’s career began working for former Representative Christopher Shays (R-CT). Over the course of his time with the Congressman, he served in policy positions including two years as Legislative Director and five years as Chief of Staff.

In 2014, Peter was appointed to the national board of Mental Health America (MHA), the nation's leading community-based nonprofit dedicated to addressing the needs of those living with mental illness and to promoting the overall mental health of all Americans, serving as Chair from 2021-2022. He previously served on the board of the Public Affairs Council, and for the past six years he has been a faculty member of the Washington Campus, a non-profit consortium of higher education institutions through which MBA students learn about the interaction of business, government, and public policy.

Peter holds a BA in English from Kenyon College and resides in Alexandria, Virginia.