Spring Global helps corporations, multilaterals, nonprofits, and foundations meet critical positioning and public policy goals. Working with our network of diverse experts, we deliver strategies that engage stakeholders and influencers in conversations that matter to them. We are passionate about helping our clients create social engagement movements, campaigns, events, and partnerships that deliver lasting, positive impact.

Spring Global founder and Principal Abby Spring has worked for over two decades at the intersection of social change, global sustainability, and international development. A seasoned global communications professional with extensive political experience, Spring has served as a communications and engagement strategist for top private firms, multilateral agencies, foundations, and NGOs, and has led many of the most high-profile development campaigns of the past 20 years.

As Senior Vice President for Global Social Responsibility at Edelman, one of the world’s leading public affairs firms, she assisted Fortune 500 companies with their communications strategies to support business initiatives, enhance visibility, and respond to public policy issues. She was instrumental in developing successful reputation and public policy campaigns and influencer engagement platforms on a wide range of issues, including women’s economic empowerment, health and wellness, food and agriculture, and sustainable development. She also directed projects involving United Nations agencies, foundations, and nonprofit organizations.

Spring has extensive experience working directly with multilateral organizations. At the World Bank, she directed communications activities for the Global Partnership for Education, which has allocated $4 billion in grants to 60 of the world’s poorest countries to help ensure that every child receives a quality basic education.

At the United Nations, Spring led communications efforts for the Millennium Development Goals Campaign, which the UN has called the “most successful anti-poverty movement in history.” As the US spokesperson for the UN’s largest humanitarian agency, the World Food Program, she served in high visibility missions to North Korea, Kosovo, East Timor, and Mozambique, raising awareness and mobilizing resources for breaking humanitarian crises around the globe.

Spring has advised the leadership of NGOs, foundations, and multilaterals to drive effective policy and advocacy agendas. For example, she oversaw the 2008 Arctic Expedition for Climate Action, bringing together the Aspen Institute, National Geographic and 50 influential leaders including Google founder Larry Page, philanthropist Ted Turner, President Jimmy Carter, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, HP CEO Meg Whitman, and the heads of environmental organizations leading to new alliances and the creation of the Ocean Elders, a collective of leaders working to protect the ocean.

Her work with NGOs includes the World Wildlife Fund, where she spearheaded advocacy efforts to put climate change on the US agenda and kept attention focused on critical issues at international conferences such as the Earth Summit in Brazil. Spring began her career as an aide on the Labor and Human Resources Committee, for Senator Edward Kennedy.

Spring is proud to serve as a member of the UN Advisory Group for the Global Compact Food And Agriculture Business Principles. Spring is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.