Sean McCormack (born 1964) is the Vice President of Communications at Chevron U.S.A. Inc. McCormack is responsible for corporate and brand communications, in addition to reputation management, employee and executive communications. He is a former

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, sworn in as

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and Department Spokesman on June 2, 2005, and served until January 20, 2009. He is also the former VP of Communications for

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Education

McCormack graduated from Colby College in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in economics. He received an M.A. in international relations from the

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in 1990.

Career

McCormack started as an analyst at the Meridian Corporation, working on issues related to arms control and non-proliferation. In 2001, he became the Deputy White House Press Secretary and NSC Spokesman at the White House. He then worked at the U.S. Department of State as the Spokesman and Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. McCormack joined Boeing in 2009 and served as the Vice President of Communications in Government Operations in the Washington DC office of

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until 2014. McCormack was then a Managing Director at TrailRunner International, a global communications consultancy, prior to joining Chevron. In November 2022, McCormack joined Chevron as the Vice President of Communications.

Department of State

McCormack began his career in the

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in 1995. He served at the U.S. embassy in

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from 1996 to 1998, where he was assigned as the Persian-speaking officer in the consular section. He was posted to the U.S. embassy in

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from 1998 to 1999, with responsibility for economic reporting and consular issues. McCormack was posted to the State Department Operations Center in 1999 before moving to the Executive Secretariat Staff ("The Line"). He was detailed to the

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Staff in 2001. Immediately prior to returning to the State Department, McCormack was Special Assistant to the President, Spokesman for the National Security Council, and Deputy

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Press Secretary for Foreign Policy.

References

External links

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