Robert Zimmerman
Zimmerman/Edelson Inc.
Co-founder and partner of Zimmerman/Edelson, Inc., Robert Zimmerman has extensive experience in national and international media relations, branding communications and crisis management. Robert oversees all of the agency’s public relations, crisis management and branding communications activities, while personally leading account teams servicing some of the agency’s largest clients.
Most recently, Robert was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo to the New York State SAGE Commission, charged with the most extensive restructuring of state government since the 1920’s. He served as member of the Board of the American Museum of Natural History representing Speaker of the New York City Council Christine Quinn, and was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the Center for an Urban Future located in New York City. In 1995, Robert was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Presidential Commission on the Arts. He held that position through June of 2001. A Democratic National Committeeman from New York, Robert appears regularly on CNN, Fox News Channel, Fox Business News, and MSNBC discussing a wide range of public policy issues. In 2013, he was the recipient of the lifetime achievement award by the Public Relations Professionals of Long Island.
Zimmerman participated in The Common Good Forum 2015 on May 14th, 2015, on the “Lead Up to 2016 and Beyond: US Politics Now” panel alongside Jim McLaughlin and Margaret Hoover, moderated by Dana Bash.
