Functional Leadership

Clyde C. Tuggle is Senior Vice president, Global Public Affairs & Communications, The Coca-Cola Company.

Mr. Tuggle joined the Company in January 1989 in the Corporate Issues Communications Department. In June 1992, he was named Executive Assistant to Roberto C. Goizueta, then Chairman and CEO of the Company, where he managed external affairs and communications for the Office of the Chairman.

In 1998, he transferred to the Company's Central European Division office in Vienna where he held a variety of positions, including Director of Operations Development, Deputy to the Division President, and Region Manager for Austria.

In January 2000, Mr. Tuggle returned to Atlanta as Executive Assistant to chairman and chief executive officer Doug Daft and was named Vice President.

In February 2003, he was elected a Senior Vice President and named Director of Worldwide Public Affairs and Communications, and named to the Company's Executive Committee. He served as President of the Russia, Ukraine & Belarus Business Unit from 2005 until his return to Atlanta in September 2008.

Mr. Tuggle holds a bachelor's degree in German Studies and Economics from Hamilton College in New York 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.

Mr. Tuggle is a trustee of Agnes Scott College and the Georgia Research Alliance. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the High Museum of Art, the Southern Center for International Studies, and the Yale University Divinity School. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Advisory Council of Emory University, and the US-Russia Business Council.