[2][3] On May 18, 1986, he married Rosalind Anne Walrath in a Jewish ceremony at the Harvard Club of New York City.

In 2017, Edelman married Mexican public servant Claudia Romo González,[9] and the couple lives in Manhattan.

[15] He later became the regional manager of Europe before being promoted to chief executive officer in September 1996, a post he still holds.

[17] He has advised the Canadian tar sands industry how to counter negative PR from NGOs using social media.

He is a member of the World Economic Forum, the Arthur Page Society, the PR Seminar and a director of the Jerusalem Foundation.

He claimed that financial institutions rank lowest on the company's trust barometer, because they don't explain the how and why of their actions to the public.

[31] Richard Edelman spends about an hour per day voicing his views on the company blog that he started to set an example for his clients.