Mark Burnham Email & Phone Number

Mark Burnham founded The Burnham Group after more than 20 years advocating for universities, large research facilities, and associations in Washington. In 2020, Mark joined with colleagues David Cherington and Lisa Arafune to establish the Additive Manufacturing Coalition (www.addmfgcoalition.org) to educate and advocate on behalf f the Additive Manufacturing sector as a whole. Mark serves as the Director of Policy for the Coalition.After graduating from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Political Science, he began his career on Capitol Hill on the staff of a now senior Member of Congress. There, he worked his way up to serving as the Congresswoman’s liaison to the House Appropriations Committee. Following law school at Boston College, he worked on several major product liability cases for the law firm JonesDay. In 1998, Mark joined a lobbying firm representing several universities and science consortia where he worked on support for numerous large research projects, as well as several Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs). Five years later, Mark joined the University of Michigan Washington office as the Director of Federal Relations for Research. There, he represented the largest federally funded research portfolio in the nation to the federal agencies and Congress. In 2006, Mark was recruited to Michigan State University (MSU) to lead the effort to bring a Department of Energy national user facility to campus. MSU succeeded in winning the competition to build the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). Ultimately, despite having to defeat efforts to defund the project before construction could begin, this $730 million major research facility was funded, built and will open for business in 2021. In 2013, Mark was promoted to Vice President of Governmental Affairs at MSU. Over the course of his 20-year career, Mark has amassed a deep understanding not only of how Congress and the Administration work, but also how universities, research associations, and businesses operate. While there are a lot of advocates to choose from in Washington, none have the depth of knowledge and experience across such a wide number of agencies and institutions.

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