Board Member since March 2009, spent most of his career as a staff member in the U.S. Congress, most recently as the Democratic Counsel for the Senate Appropriations Committee. Currently he serves, and from 2001 to 2007 served as a member of the U.S. China Economic and Security Commission, on which he was Chairman and Vice Chairman. From 1998 to 2002, he was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Annapolis.  Georgetown University Law Center, J.D.; Cornell, with honors.