David Steel

Dr. David Steel is a corporate reputation leader, who has worked across global communications, public affairs, marketing, and corporate citizenship for Samsung, the fifth most valuable brand in the world. Most recently, he was Executive Vice President and Head of Corporate Affairs for North America. Before that, he was head of Global Communications, based in Seoul, South Korea.

He first joined Samsung in 1997 in the Global Strategy Group, where he managed strategy and business development projects. He went on to hold several other high-level positions, becoming Samsung’s first non-Korean corporate executive when appointed to serve as Vice President and Head of Marketing for the Digital Media Business in 2002. He then oversaw worldwide marketing strategy for the mobile phones business and led corporate strategy, marketing, and communications in his capacity as Executive Vice President of Samsung Electronics America. Prior to joining Samsung, Dr. Steel worked at McKinsey & Co. and Argonne National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy. He holds a PhD in Physics from MIT, an MBA with Honors from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Physics from Oxford University. He spent 2017 as an Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University.