Vatican Hires Large American Consultancy
Firm to Advise on Media Operations
by Dr. Susan Berry 20 Dec 2013
The Vatican has announced it will hire McKinsey & Co., a large U.S. media consultancy firm, to
advise it on media operations, including a modernization of its communications
operations.
According to Edward Pentin at National
Catholic Register, the Vatican issued a statement Thursday morning indicating
that following a bidding process, management consultants McKinsey & Co.
would be hired “to provide advice contributing to the development – in close
collaboration with the heads of the relevant departments – an integrated plan
to make the organization of the means of communication of the Holy See more
functional, efficient, and modern.”
The Register report indicates the Vatican has also chosen Netherlands-based
auditors KPMG to study the Vatican’s
internal accounting.
The decisions were made on Wednesday by
the commission that was appointed by Pope Francis to study the Vatican’s
overall finances, part of the pontiff’s effort to reform the Roman Curia.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Vatican did not disclose the value
of the contracts.
The Vatican said the media consultancy
effort seeks to “provide the commission with the information needed to make
appropriate recommendations to the Holy Father.”
According to the Register:
For some years, officials have argued for
a better communications system in the Vatican, especially after a string
of perceived media gaffes and the Vatileaks scandal. Observers have criticised
the curia for lacking a centralized office of communications, leading to
unnecessary duplication in various Vatican
media outlets. Other observers have also proposed having a coordinated network
of media spokesmen in some or all of the dicasteries (Vatican departments),
overseen by the Holy See's Press Office director.
McKinsey & Co. identifies itself as a
“global management consulting firm,” and says it is the “trusted advisor to the
world’s leading businesses, governments, and institutions.”
The company’s website states it “strives
for world-shaping client impact” and is “committed to social impact and
sustainability.”
In June, Catholic World News reported that
Pope Francis had asked Thomas von Mitschke-Collande, a German manager
consultant from McKinsey & Co., to suggest administrative changes at the Vatican.
Mitschke-Collande was recommended to the pontiff after he advised the
archdiocese of Berlin
and the German bishops’ conference.
Mitschke-Collande, who is the author of Is
The Catholic Church Self-Destructing?, has argued that despite a popular demand
for spiritual direction, the Church is failing because its leaders have not
responded to that demand.
The WSJ reports that McKinsey will work on
integrating the Vatican’s
numerous media outlets, including newspaper, television, and radio.
Meanwhile, auditors KPMG will “study and
address” the economic and administrative activities of the Holy See. KPMG is
expected to collaborate with Pope Francis’ commission as it takes “whatever
steps are necessary to align the accounting procedures of all agencies of the
Holy See with international standards.”
Other Vatican
outsourcing has included regulatory compliance firm Promontory Financial Group,
which has installed two dozen people at the beleaguered Vatican Bank to review
accounts and ensure procedures conform to international norms to combat
money-laundering and terror financing. Promontory also advises APSA, the
financial institution that administers Vatican
real estate.
In addition, consulting firm Ernst and
Young has been hired by the Vatican
City State,
which controls the Vatican Museums, to assess its finances.
In June of 2012, Reuters reported that
Pope Benedict had hired American journalist Greg Burke of Fox News, a member of
the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei, to help improve its media relations
in the wake of the Vatileaks scandal.
Burke assumed the post of “senior
communications adviser” to the Vatican Secretariat of State – similar to that
of White House communication advisers – a role that revolutionized the Vatican’s
communications structure.
Vatican
Raymond
L. Burke is the top judge for the Vatican,
and a cardinal for the Roman Catholic Church.
Note: Vatican
Bank is the bank for the Vatican.
Carl A.
Anderson is a board member for the Vatican Bank,
the supreme knight for the Knights of Columbus,
a trustee at the Catholic University of America,
and was an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation.
Mikhail
Gorbachev is an advisory board member for the Wheelchair
Foundation, and was general secretary for the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union.
William
E. Lori is the supreme chaplain for the Knights of
Columbus, and was a trustee at the Catholic
University of America.
Francis
E. George is a trustee at the Catholic University of
America, a cardinal for the Roman Catholic Church,
and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
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A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Mellody
L. Hobson is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
a trustee at the Sundance Institute, and William W. Bradley is her mentor.
Geoffrey
K. Sands is a trustee at the Sundance Institute,
and the chief media partner at McKinsey & Company.
William
W. Bradley is Mellody L. Hobson’s
mentor, a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), and was an outside adviser for McKinsey & Company.
Roger
W. Ferguson Jr. was a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), and a partner at McKinsey & Company.
R. Eden
Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama
was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP, and is the president
for the Barack Obama administration.
Diana
Farrell was the deputy assistant to the president on economic policy for
the Barack Obama administration, and is a director
at McKinsey & Company.
Nancy
Killefer was the nominee for chief performance officer for the Barack Obama administration, and is a senior director for McKinsey & Company.
David G.
Knott is a director at McKinsey & Company,
and was a senior partner at Booz & Company.
Booz
& Company is a spinoff company for the Booz Allen
Hamilton.
Booz
Allen Hamilton is a contractor for the National Security Agency
(NSA).
Edward
Snowden leaked information about the National Security Agency
(NSA), and an employee at Booz Allen Hamilton.
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S. Osborne is the EVP & general counsel for Booz Allen
Hamilton, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Newton N.
Minow is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Cyrus
F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Susan E.
Rice was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), a management consultant for McKinsey
& Company, and is the White House national security adviser for
the Barack Obama administration.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Sundance
Institute, the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), the Brookings Institution (think tank), the Aspen
Institute (think tank), the Committee for Economic
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Committee, the Millennium Promise,
and the Hudson Institute (think tank).
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is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society, and the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Catholic
Relief Services.
Kenneth
F. Hackett was the president for the Catholic Relief Services,
and is the U.S.
ambassador for the Holy See.
Lael
Brainard was the VP & director for the Brookings Institution (think tank), a consultant for McKinsey & Company, William J. Clinton’s
deputy national economic adviser, and is the under secretary for international
affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury
for the Barack Obama administration.
William
J. Clinton’s deputy national economic adviser was Lael
Brainard, and is Chelsea V. Clinton’s
father.
Chelsea
V. Clinton is William J. Clinton’s
daughter, and was an employee at McKinsey & Company.
Dominic
Barton is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a global managing director for McKinsey & Company.
D.
Ronald Daniel was an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and is a director at McKinsey
& Company.
Martin
N. Baily is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and a principal at McKinsey & Company.
Sheryl
K. Sandberg was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and a management consultant for McKinsey
& Company.
James M.
Manyika is a partner at McKinsey & Company,
and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
W.
James McNerney Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company.
Barbara
G. Fast was a VP at the Boeing Company,
and a VP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI
Group Inc. was the Obamacare
contractor that developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
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Morea was the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.,
and a trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development.
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T. Mendonca is a co-chairman for the Committee for Economic
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C. Waite III was a trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development, and is a director emeritus at McKinsey
& Company.
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William Barnett is an overseer at the International Rescue
Committee, and was a director at McKinsey
& Company.
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Gupta was a director at the Millennium Promise,
and a senior partner at McKinsey & Company.
Bill
Matassoni is a trustee at the Hudson Institute (think
tank), and was a partner at McKinsey & Company.
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W. Miller was a partner at McKinsey & Company,
and a director at Silver Lake.
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and a partner with Soros Fund Management.
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is the founder of Soros Fund Management,
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society, the founder & chairman for the Open Society
Foundations, and was a benefactor at the Human Rights
Watch.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights
Watch.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Human Rights
Watch, the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and the Catholic Relief Services.
Kenneth
F. Hackett was the president for the Catholic Relief Services,
and is the U.S.
ambassador for the Holy See.
John
J. Studzinski is a director at the Human Rights Watch,
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and a papal knighthood
knight.
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knighthood is an honor conferred by pope from the Roman
Catholic Church.
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(Joseph Ratzinger) is the pope
emeritus at the Roman Catholic Church,
and was the pope for the Roman Catholic
Church.
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reason to think that Ratzinger has been less than fully candid about his past.
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L. Burke is a cardinal for the Roman Catholic Church,
and the top judge for the Vatican.
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