Padraic Riley
Padraic Riley is a Senior Managing Director with Teneo’s Strategy and Communications business, based in New York. Padraic works on a variety of public affairs, issues management, crisis communications and corporate communications programs for the firm’s international clients.
Padraic has significant experience helping companies with projects at the intersection of communications, public affairs and media scrutiny. This includes legal disputes, international development related to the Middle East, utility and pipeline siting, legal issues involving sports organizations and a major sovereign development project. He led Teneo’s work in support of COP29, the UN Climate Change Conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2024. He has also led work for Teneo’s clients that are facing organized labor campaigns.
Before joining Teneo, Padraic served as Director of External Affairs and Communications for the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Padraic was a member of the executive team responsible for launching the Middle East’s first nuclear energy corporation and the largest and most complex nuclear energy procurement program in history.
Prior to his work for ENEC, Padraic worked for the Atlantic Philanthropies, a New York-based charitable foundation, specializing in communications in the United States and Ireland.
Previously, Padraic spent more than a dozen years at Burson-Marsteller, the international communications consultancy, serving as one of the firm’s senior international crisis and issues management experts. He was involved in significant work for multinational clients facing intense governmental, legal, and media challenges, in Ukraine, Russia and the Middle East, and across the United States.
A former newspaper journalist and editor, Padraic received a B.A., in English Literature from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. He holds dual U.S./Republic of Ireland citizenship.