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Betty
Hudson

Director emeritus and former board member at Aflac, former chief communications officer for the National Geographic Society

Betty Hudson, a member of APCO’s International Advisory Council, is an award-winning communications industry leader with more than four decades of experience in every aspect of corporate and strategic communications, including consumer, employee, financial, and cause-related marketing, as well as brand and communications management. Hudson retired as Chief Communications Officer of the National Geographic Society at the end of 2015, having held similar roles with NBC, The Readers Digest Association, and iVillage. She now consults with business leaders, nonprofit organizations and for-profit entities on a wide range of marketing and communications issues.

Hudson was a member of the AFLAC Board of Directors from 1990 until May 2018, serving as a member of the company’s Finance and Investment Committee, and chair of the Sustainability Committee. She is co-chair of the Washington Chapter of Women’s Corporate Directors, an international organization of more than 3,000 women serving on more than 5,000 corporate boards worldwide and is a member of the WCD global advisory council.

She is a member of the Board of Kakenya’s Dream, a member of the Board of Planet Forward, past president of the New York Women’s Agenda and the Montclair Board of Education in Montclair, New Jersey, and a former chairman of the Inova Fairfax Children’s Hospital Quality Committee. She is also a former board member of the Inova Health Care Services Board and the Associates Board of Directors of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. She is also a member of the Mentor Network for the Unreasonables Group, an accelerator working globally with for profit entrepreneurs focusing on one or more of the UN Sustainability Goals.

She is a graduate of the University of Georgia Grady School of Communications.