Ryan Toohey is senior managing director in the Strategic Communications segment at FTI Consulting. He is also part of the segment’s Corporate Communications practice, and serves as head of its Crisis & Issues Management specialty practice in the Americas. Toohey specializes in providing strategic counsel to companies and executives facing complex communications, government relations and regulatory challenges. He frequently serves as the lead strategist on multidisciplinary campaigns, where corporate reputation and long-term value creation are at the center of the outcome. Toohey’s more than 15 years of agency-based communications and public affairs work are augmented and informed by many ventures into the domestic and international political space — where he has served as a campaign manager, communications strategist and pollster. He joined FTI Consulting after four years as a partner at a New York-based public affairs firm, Global Strategy Group. Toohey began his agency career in the research and consulting group at Weber Shandwick. He holds a B.A. in classics and government from the University of Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo), and attended Columbia Law School.