Geoff Morrell (spokesperson)

Geoffrey S. Morrell (born November 1968) is an American public affairs person who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, and was the Press Secretary of the Department of Defense. He was hired to the position in June 2007 and departed in June 2011 to join BP in September.

Early life and education
Morrell earned a bachelor's degree in 1991 from Georgetown University and earned a master's degree in journalism in 1992 from Columbia University.

Professional career
Morrell began his reporting career in 1992 at KATV-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas, covering the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton. In 1994, he took a job as a reporter at WSET-TV in Roanoke, Virginia, and in 1995, Morrell joined KSAZ-TV in Phoenix as a TV news reporter. In 1996, Morrell joined WBBM-TV in Chicago in the same capacity. While working as for WBBM-TV in Chicago, Morrell appeared in the 1998 movie The Negotiator playing himself as a news reporter.

Morrell left WBBM-TV in early 2000 when his contract expired and joined ABC News, working in both the network's Chicago and Washington, D.C. bureaus. In 2007, Morrell resigned from ABC after seven years with the network to be appointed the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. Morrell was replaced by George E. Little in July 2011.

In September 2011, Morrell joined BP as the company's head of US communications and in 2013 became the company's senior vice president of US communications and external affairs.