Michael Anton

Michael Anton has extensive experience in speechwriting, media relations, and communications at the highest levels of government and business.

Anton most recently served as chief speechwriter for News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. He was also deputy foreign policy advisor (under Yale professor and former career diplomat Charles Hill) to the Giuliani presidential campaign.

Prior to moving to New York, he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Foreign Policy Speechwriting in the National Security Council, at the White House. He was the principal drafter and editor of President George W. Bush’s speeches on foreign and defense policy. He also served, until her confirmation as Secretary of State, as the chief speechwriter for National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.

Before joining the White House speechwriting staff, Anton was Director for Communications at the National Security Council. In this capacity, he served as a principle strategic communications planner for all issues and events relating to American foreign policy. He organized and facilitated all interviews with the President by foreign media, and foreign and domestic interviews with Dr. Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley. He also served a White House spokesman on all foreign and defense policy issues