Clyde C. Tuggle is a Global Public Affairs and Communications Adviser to the Chief Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company.
Mr. Tuggle joined the Company in 1989 and has served in many capacities, including the office of the Chairman, the Central European Division office and as the president of the Russia, Ukraine & Belarus Business Unit. From 2009 to 2017, he served as Senior Vice President, Global Public Affairs and Communications, a position reporting directly to the Chairman, Board of Directors, and Chief Executive Officer.
Mr. Tuggle serves on the boards of directors of the Georgia Power Company and Oxford Industries, Inc.
Mr. Tuggle is President of the Atlanta Rotary Club. He is a trustee of the Georgia Research Alliance, and serves on the boards of the Atlantic Council, the Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse, Georgia Historical Society, the U.S. Russia Business Council and is chairman of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Goizueta Business School Advisory Board, the Yale University International Advisory Board, and the Leadership Council of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School. In 2013, Mr. Tuggle was elected a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.
Mr. Tuggle holds a bachelor’s degree in German Studies and Economics from Hamilton College and a Master of Divinity from Yale University. He studied at the Ludwig-Maximillian Universität in Munich, Germany, and completed the Executive Program at the University of Virginia’s Darden Business School.