Michael McKenna
Michael McKenna is the President of MWR Strategies and a contributing editor at The Washington Times. He is a leading policy expert on international energy issues. Previously, he was a Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs in the Executive Office of the President.
He has worked in senior positions in government agencies at the State and federal levels, including the Department of Energy and the Department of Transportation and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.
He has advised a wide variety of corporate clients – including refiners, pipelines, utilities, transmission companies, chemical companies, financial services firms, cybersecurity companies, LNG exporters, trade associations, think tanks, etc. -- with respect to government affairs, public policy issues, opinion research, and communications strategies. He has also worked on numerous campaigns and transition efforts.
He has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and George Mason University and has been a Fellow at the Dole Institute at the University of Kansas and a lecturer at the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the University of Denver.