Princeton NJ Events
Events for Thursday April 16, 2026
Higher Education, Free Speech, and the Intersection of University Life with Public Policy and Government Relations, 55-Plus Club
Thursday April 16, 2026
10:00 AM
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Gadi Dechter, Vice President for Communications and Government Affairs, Princeton University |
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THIS WILL BE A HYBRID MEETING (in-person at TJC & via Zoom) |
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To join this meeting on Zoom, please click HERE |
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Gadi Dechter became Vice President for Communications and Government Affairs on January 10, 2022. He provides strategic communications and federal relations advice to the President and other senior University leaders, communicating about and advocating for the priorities of Princeton and higher education more broadly. He oversees the offices of communications and government affairs (located in Washington, D.C.). Prior to joining Princeton, he was head of public affairs at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of APCO Worldwide, a communications consultancy. Before that he served in the White House as senior adviser to the White House National Economic Council and National Security Council under President Barack Obama. He has also served as deputy director of policy and strategic planning at the U.S. Department of Commerce, as managing director of economic policy at the Center for American Progress, and as a reporter at Bloomberg News and the Baltimore Sun. Dechter received a B.A. in literature from Yale University and a master's degree in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He has held lecturer appointments at George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University and the Maryland Institute College of Art.
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