Former Captain in the U.S. Air Force
The Honorable Mark D. Cowan draws on more than 35 years’ experience working on complex domestic and international public policy issues as counsel for a broad range of clients. He advises corporations, government entities, and foreign sovereigns on a wide array of business, regulatory, communications and trade issues.Mr. Cowan has been engaged in high level Public Affairs/Relations activities for over 30 years, having held a variety of senior positions in government he was often required to deal with the media in myriad formats. More recently Mr. Cowan was a Senior Vice President at Hill and Knowlton, one of the largest global PR agencies and has headed a variety of Public Affairs and Government Relations firms where he was often tasked with media strategy on behalf of a wide range of foreign and domestic clientele.
Mr. Cowan, a lawyer, has headed three companies of his own, been a senior partner at Patton Boggs, LLP, an AM Law 100 firm, wherein he both created and directed the firm’s Business Development Department and effort for over 500 lawyers. Having founded The Jefferson Group in 1987, Mr. Cowan grew that public affairs firm to become the second largest in its class in just six years. Thereafter, he was Vice Chairman of Cassidy & Associates, Washington’s largest public affairs company, C.E.O. of the Columbus Group, and C.E.O. of Newmyer Associates.
His career is expansive and varied, having served among others, in the US Air Force, in the administrations of US Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, on the Trump Transition Team, and with the CIA.
