Iris E Harvey

Iris E. Harvey serves as vice president of University Relations and oversees the offices of Government Relations, University Communications and Marketing and WKSU-FM. Before coming to Kent State, Harvey had overseen Wright State's advertising, enrollment marketing, brand and integrated communications, Web media, publications, visual identity, media-public relations and speechwriting. Harvey served as worldwide director of faculty recruitment for the University of Maryland University College. From 1993 to 2004, she was founder and chief executive of Market Strategies and Solutions Inc., which served a clientele of large multinational organizations and emerging enterprises and was based in Tokyo and Washington, D.C. She also served nine years with Citigroup Global Consumer Bank Group in Chicago, culminating in her role as vice president-senior director of marketing for Citibank's National Marketing Division. Harvey earned her bachelor's degree in marketing and Master of Business Administration in international marketing from the University of Southern California, as well as an education specialist degree from George Washington University.