Mark Medish has over 30 years of professional experience as a lawyer, policy expert and strategic adviser based in Washington, D.C. He is vice chair of Project Associates, Ltd., a strategic communications firm headquartered in London, with offices in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, New York, and Washington. The website is: https://www.projectassociatesltd.com/Medish is a founding partner of The Mosaiq Law Group (https://mosaiqlaw.com/) and a founding director of Keep Our Republic, a 501(c)(3) civic education organization (https://keepourrepublic.com/). He serves on several corporate and non-profit advisory boards including the Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (Washington) and the Institut für die Wissenschaften von Menschen (Vienna).Previously, Medish was president of The Messina Group, a strategic consultancy, and president of Guggenheim International, LLC, a division of Guggenheim Partners, an investment firm with over $200 billion AUM. Medish served at The White House as a Special Assistant to President Clinton and Senior Director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs on the National Security Council. Prior to that, he served as U.S. Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Affairs under Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin. He also worked as a Special Assistant at USAID/State Department and as a Special Advisor at UNDP in New York.Medish was a law partner at Akin, Gump, LLP, where he led the sovereign advisory and debt restructuring practices. He trained as an associate at Covington & Burling and clerked with Judge John M. Steadman on the D.C. Court of Appeals.Medish has been affiliated with several think tanks including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington), The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (London), The Japan Institute of International Affairs (Tokyo) and the Green School at Florida International University (Miami). Early in his career, Medish worked on Capitol Hill as a junior staffer for Senator Edward M. Kennedy and as pro bono counsel to Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton .Medish was educated at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Harvard Graduate School, Harvard Law School, and Oxford (Merton College). Medish is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His languages include Russian, German and Danish. He played varsity tennis as a Georgetown Hoya.