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American Association of Political Consultants

Board of Directors

Ralph Murphine

Ralph Murphine

Ralph Murphine is a political and public affairs consultant based in Washington, DC and Quito, Ecuador. He has worked for more than 500 candidates for public office, public interest organi- zations, trade associations, political parties, public action committees, corporations, labor unions, and others. He has had more than 37 years of experience in managing political and public affairs projects.

Murphine is one of the leading political consultants in Latin America. He has worked for presidential, congressional, gubernatorial, mayoral, and other candidates in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil. Murphine has worked for ten presidents in office and sixteen presidential campaigns.

In addition, his work on the successful 1991 All-Union Treaty Referendum in the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics marked the first use of American professional political consultants in the Soviet Union. He served as a member of a special ad hoc advisory committee on political technology to former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev. Murphine also taught a month-long course in campaign techniques at the Tavricheski Palace in St. Petersburg. The course was formed for regional officials in the government of then Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

He also has had a substantial practice in candidate, initiative, referendum, and constitutional amendment campaigns in the United States, since 1967.

Murphine is dedicated to an aggressive program of public education in the strategies and techniques of modern political communication. He is President of the Centro Interamericano de Gerencia Politica, a Miami-based non-profit educational foundation offering political training in the Spanish language to Latin American candidates and political party leaders. He also is Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Institute for Political Communication, a foundation working on satellite television and Internet transmission of educational materials in the field of political communication. In addition, he is President of the Board of Advisors of the Centro Geopolítico Interamericano in México.

He has conducted seminars, classes, and workshops at many universities and colleges in the United States, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, Kent State, California State, American, North Carolina, Loyola, Florida International, and George Washington Universities.

Overseas, he has lectured, taught classes, courses, and at seminars, in Spanish, at Universidad Iberoamericano in Mexico City, ITESM (Tech de Monterrey) in Mexico City, Universidad Rafael Landivar in Guatemala, The Andean University in Quito, Ecuador, and Catholic University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He also has taught classes and courses in political communication at the Institute for Social Sciences in Moscow, the University of Leningrad in St. Petersburg, and Belgorod University in Belgorod, Russia.

Murphine is a visiting lecturer on ethics, campaign strategy, and fund raising at the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University. He also is a lecturer on campaign strategy at the Institute for Political Leadership at the University of North Carolina. He is an active member of a number of professional and educational groups and organizations.

Murphine is a former President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Associ-ation of Political Consultants. He also served ten years as Chairman of its Committee on Ethics. He is a member of the International Association of Political Consultants and of the Latin American Association of Political Consultants.

Murphine is author of Voter Technology in Political Campaigns in the USA, published in the Russian language by the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow. In addition, he is the author of a chapter in the recent handbook on election management titled El Arte de Ganar Elecciones, published in the Spanish language by the Latin American Association of Political Consultants. He has published a number of articles and papers on a variety of subjects related to the techniques of political communication.

He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of "Campaigns & Elections" magazine, published in Washington, DC. Murphine was named International Consultant of the Year by the American Association of Political Consultants in 1997 and was granted a special award by the Latin American Association of Political Consultants in 2000 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the practice of political consultation.

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