Robert Schäfer is a multi-lingual communications consultant with international experience in both the commercial and non-profit sectors. Based in Berlin, Germany, he travels extensively to meet his clients' needs and has established a network of senior communications consultants around the world to add specific expertise to each project.

Prior to becoming a self-employed communications consultant, Schäfer spent more than 12 years in Public Relations and communications, including working for major German theatres; the Frankfurt Goethe-University; the Central Bureau of the German Family Planning Association, Pro Familia; and Fleishman-Hillard International Communications, one of the largest PR agencies in the world.

 
As Vice President, he coordinated domestic, European, and global accounts on behalf of his clients. He also served as a communications consultant to the World Health Organization and helped develop, implement, and evaluate a EU-funded national family planning communications programme in Bulgaria.