Develops and implements integrated communications strategies to help leaders navigate complex situations, capital markets transactions and build and protect their corporate reputations. Extensive healthcare experience.

Kirsti Hastings is a Managing Director at Finsbury Glover Hering with more than a dozen years of experience in crisis communications, reputation management, and financial communications. Kirsti advises business leaders on integrated communications strategies and has experience helping companies navigate complex corporate issues, including financial and regulatory issues, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, cybersecurity, leadership transitions, and corporate reorganizations. Kirsti has extensive experience in health care and financial services. Kirsti is based in New York and also spent two years in our Los Angeles office.
Prior to joining the firm, Kirsti spent 12 years working as a journalist at The Wall Street Journal, WSJ.com and Dow Jones Newswires, including eight years as a foreign correspondent in Shanghai and Hong Kong. She also has lived and worked in Paris, Brussels and Taipei. Kirsti graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University and earned a Master’s degree from Columbia University, where she studied international affairs and journalism. She speaks fluent French and conversational Mandarin Chinese.

Journalist at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and New York. 
Graduated from Tufts University and Columbia University.

Avid skier, runner, cyclist and aspirational tennis player.
Proud mother of two children who are quickly becoming adults. 
Madly in love with Paris.

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