Duncan Wardle, Vice President, Global Public Relations, Disney Parks, Orlando, FL

Duncan Wardle is Vice President, Global PR, for Disney Parks. In his current role, Mr. Wardle oversees the strategic development, creative ideation, and execution of PR Campaigns designed to raise awareness, generate buzz, and increase visitation to Disney Parks worldwide. Born in London, England, Mr. Wardle attended Rannoch School and Napier University in Scotland before being chosen as one of seven students from the United Kingdom to represent his country at Epcot in Walt Disney World, Florida. It was at Epcot that Mr. Wardle met his future wife, Beatriz, a Mexican student attending the same program.

While spending the year as a student in the United States, Mr. Wardle was inspired by a portrait of America entitled “Golden Dreams”. Through the eyes of Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Neil Armstrong, and Martin Luther King, Jr., he determined that this was a land of unique freedom, universal acceptance, and boundless opportunity. A land that he would return to ten years later to pursue his own American Dream. Having worked for the Walt Disney Company in London, Paris, and Hong Kong, he emigrated to the United States of America in 1997 together with his wife, Beatriz and daughter Adriana.  Shortly after their arrival in America, their son James, the first U.S. citizen in the family, was born and on March 3, 2006, Mr. Wardle and Beatriz fulfilled their own dream of becoming U.S. citizens.