David Demarest will retire after 14 years as vice president for public affairs. (Image credit: Nancy Rothstein)
David Demarest, who is a former White House communications director, will continue teaching at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. David Demarest, vice president for public affairs at Stanford for the last 14 years, has announced that he will retire from the position at the end of February. Demarest, who also serves as a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, will continue to teach a management course on political communication and an undergraduate seminar on strategy. "It has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life to have served this great institution and to have led an extraordinary team of people here," Demarest said. "I'm enormously proud of our accomplishments, and at the same time, I'm excited by the opportunity to devote more of my time to teaching and research in my favorite subjects - communications, politics, government and leadership." Demarest served as White House communications director for President George H. W. Bush and is writing a book of reflections on the experience. Demarest later served as executive vice president and director of corporate communications at BankAmerica Corp.
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