CEOI MEMBER SINCE 2021

Nik Deogun has served as CEO of the Americas and U.S. senior partner for Brunswick Group, a critical issues advisory firm, for some five years, following a 25-year career as a media executive and journalist. From Brunswick’s New York office, Mr. Deogun oversees the firm’s core advisory, as well as creative, arts, research, and digital practices in the Americas and has navigated a transformational period of growth since he took the helm in 2018. He is also an adviser to the leaders and boards of corporations, universities, nonprofit organizations, and cultural institutions, drawing on his nearly 30-year career at the intersection of journalism and business to counsel these entities on their most reputation-defining moments. Mr. Deogun joined Brunswick from CNBC, where he held several senior management and leadership roles, including editor in chief and senior vice president, business news. He previously held senior management and leadership roles at the Wall Street Journal, where he was deputy managing editor and international editor overseeing the Journal’s network of international bureaus and correspondents as well as its Money & Investing section during the 2008 financial crisis. Prior to this, he was a well-respected M&A reporter for the paper; he also served as deputy bureau chief in Washington, DC, for three years. Mr. Deogun is on the board of directors of the U.S. India Strategic Partnership Forum. He is on the American board of trustees for the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship and of Muskingum University, his alma mater; the board of advisers of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University; and the board of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. He received his master’s degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia.