EMILY D’ALBERTO
Managing Director
Emily D’Alberto joins MAD Global Strategy after more than a decade at Mercury, a bipartisan global public affairs strategy firm. At MAD Global, Emily advises clients on media relations, public relations, crisis communications and thought leadership across a variety of sectors including health care, real estate, energy, and manufacturing, among others.
Emily has deep experience on both sides of the wall between politics and media. Emily spent the first half of her career in television news, covering some of the seminal stories of our time: September 11th, Hurricane Katrina and the 2000 and 2008 presidential elections.
Prior to joining Mercury, Emily served as a producer for CNN’s morning program, where she produced high-profile interviews with cabinet level officials, presidential candidates and sitting members of Congress. Emily was in the field for major news events like the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Tucson Shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the BP oil spill and the inauguration of President Barack Obama. She was part of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody award for its BP oil spill and Hurricane Katrina coverage.
Emily worked for a major presidential campaign during the 2008 election, managing the television and surrogate operations. Emily began her career in television news at MSNBC covering the 2000 presidential election and Florida recount. She worked in MSNBC’s Washington Bureau coordinating guest interviews, focusing primarily on the September 11th attacks and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She joined CNN in 2002 as a guest producer for the political debate program Crossfire.
In 2016, Emily was named a “Hero” by the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund for her volunteer work helping to launch the $40 million non-profit by New Jersey’s First Lady that aided long-term recovery efforts in her home state. Emily has a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Emily and her husband Mario live in northern New Jersey with their two children.