Doug Sosnik

Doug Sosnik has worked at the center of politics, government, entertainment, sports, and business for the last 40 years.

Sosnik served as a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton for six years in the White House, where he played a key role in policy, strategy, communications, and politics. His positions included senior advisor for policy and strategy, White House political director, and deputy legislative director.

Sosnik has advised more than 50 U.S. senators and governors, as well as Fortune 100 companies, sports leagues and teams, news and entertainment organizations, non-profits, foundations, and universities.

His clients have included the National Basketball Association, NBC, CNBC, the Motion Picture Association, the Houston Astros, the Rockefeller Foundation, the PEW Charitable Trusts, and the University of North Carolina. He has advised a range of corporations,  including Boeing, Google, UPS, AT&T, UnitedHealth, General Motors, and LYFT.

Sosnik currently serves as a research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School for Business and Government and contributes as a special guest at the Institute of Politics at Harvard. He is also a senior advisor at the Brunswick Group.

Sosnik got his start in politics as then-Congressman Chris Dodd’s driver in his 1980 Senate campaign. In 1981, he served as the campaign manager for Bob Carr for Congress and went on to serve as his chief of staff in the U.S. House from 1983-1986. Later, he returned to work for Senator Dodd as his chief of staff from 1991-1994.

He co-authored the New York Times best-selling book Applebee’s America: How Successful Political, Business and Religious Leaders Connect with the New American Community.

Sosnik earned a BA from Duke University and lives in Washington, DC.