Andy Lewin Email & Phone Number

As a Principal at BGR, Andy Lewin taps his 18 years of experience navigating financial services, tax policy and regulatory issues to help clients weed through the complexities of Washington, DC. Prior to his time at BGR, Andy headed the Podesta Group's financial services sector for eight years.As Assistant Vice President for government and industry affairs at Zurich Financial Services, Andy developed and advocated the company’s legislative and regulatory agendas on issues including regulatory reform, natural catastrophes, taxation, climate change and terrorism risk insurance. He was responsible for communicating and presenting these public policy positions to members of Congress and their staffs and producing content for the company’s government and industry affairs website. Andy also represented Zurich at its public policy trade associations, including the American Insurance Association and the Financial Service Roundtable and chaired the Roundtable’s Insurance Working Group.Before joining Zurich, Andy served as Legislative Director for Rep. Dennis Moore (D-KS), who was then chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. In this position, Andy developed legislative agendas and formulated legislation on insurance, banking, securities, housing finance, financial privacy and data security, and insurance regulatory reform. Earlier in his career, Andy was Legislative Director for Rep. Max Sandlin (D-TX), then a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, where he worked on tax, trade, pensions, federal budget, and energy issues.A St. Louis native, Andy has a bachelor's from the University of Kansas and a master’s from the University of Massachusetts.

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