Mark Medish
Mark Medish, former senior staff member of the National Security Council and Washington veteran, is executive vice president of APCO Worldwide and runs its executive service Global Political Strategies (GPS).
Mr. Medish served most recently as a visiting scholar and senior adviser at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a global policy think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., where he served as vice president. Prior to joining Carnegie, he was partner in the Washington public law and policy practice group of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P.
Before joining Akin Gump, Mr. Medish served in the Clinton administration as special assistant to the president and senior director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian affairs on the National Security Council.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Medish served under Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers as deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for international affairs, where his regional portfolio covered Central Europe, the Newly Independent States (NIS), the Middle East and South Asia. Before that, he was senior advisor to the administrator of the United Nations Development Program and special assistant to the assistant administrator for Europe and the NIS at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Prior to entering public service, he was an attorney at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and served as a law clerk to an appellate judge, before being admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1992.
Mr. Medish is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a board member at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. He has been a visiting fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs, Tokyo and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in London.
He was educated at Harvard University and Law School, Oxford University (Merton College), and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.