STEVE WHITAKER
Steve Whitaker helps companies and high-net-worth individuals understand and manage the risks and opportunities of working with the U.S. and foreign governments. Dr. Whitaker lobbies on behalf of clients on issues relating to the Wall Street Reform Act, housing and GSE reform, Federal contracts, international trade, energy consumption and e-waste, and patent-law reform.

Dr. Whitaker served as a professional staff member on the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and was appointed to the U.S. Trade Representative’s Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Information and Communications, Technologies, Services, and Electronic Commerce. Prior to founding Whitaker Strategies, Dr. Whitaker served as senior policy adviser to the San Francisco-based law firm of Thelen Reid and Priest. He also launched the federal appropriations practice for DCI Group and founded the international trade practice group at Cassidy & Associates in Washington, DC. 

Dr. Whitaker earned a Ph.D. from Emory University, an M.S.L. from Yale Law School, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins, and a B.S. from Bates College. He won a Fulbright Fellowship for dissertation research in Bologna, Italy. He has taught in the Graduate School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University, the Orfalea School of Business at Cal Poly, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.