NEW YORK—Entertainment giant 21st Century Fox has named Chip Smith, a co-founder and chief executive officer of The Glover Park Group, as executive vice president, public affairs. Smith will oversee global legislative, regulatory and strategic policy matters for the company.

Smith will report to executive chairman Lachlan Murdoch and chief executive officer James Murdoch. He will be based in Washington, DC, and New York and will oversee the policy offices of the company in the United States, Hong Kong, Brussels and the United Kingdom.

According to James Murdoch: "The next decade is one of immense opportunity for 21st Century Fox. At a time of unprecedented change in our industry, it is more critical than ever that the policy and regulatory community truly understand our business, the value of what we do, and the broader creative community of which we are a part."

Smith co-founded The Glover Park Group in 2001 along with Michael Feldman, Carter Eskew and Joe Lockhart and helped grow the firm from a startup to one of the nation’s most respected strategic communication companies. Prior to that, he was a deputy campaign manager and the chief operating officer for Vice President Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, and before that chief of staff at MCI and executive director of strategy and communications.