JOHN CHWAT

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT | email

John Chwat is Executive Vice President at the McKeon Group and provides consulting and representational services to a multi-client base of corporations, trade and professional associations, industry coalitions, foundations, museums and foreign clients. He also coordinates the firm’s internship program.

John has a vast knowledge of the inner workings of Congress, starting on Capitol Hill in 1971 having served both Democrats and Republicans in the capacity of Chief of Staff to three Members of the U.S. House of Representatives who served on the House Judiciary Committee, House Armed Services Committee, and the House Appropriations Committee. John also served as a Legislative Assistant to a member of the House Foreign Affairs and Banking Committees, and as a staff member to the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. Continuing his service to the U.S. Congress, he served as a national defense and foreign policy analyst for the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress providing key research and reports to Committees and Members. He was a senior specialist in congressional relations for the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) and also served in the Congressional Relations Office of the United States Department of Agriculture.

John has served on the Government Relations Council of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and as Chairman of ASAE’s Advanced Institute on Government Relations. John served on the faculty of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Organization Management. He is a past president of the House Chiefs of Staff Alumni Association, a member of the Capitol Hill Club, Army Historical Foundation, Navy Historical Foundation, National Defense Industrial Association, Association of the United States Army, and The Navy League. He also serves as the President of The American Friends of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Inc.

A native Washingtonian, John is a graduate of Georgetown University with a Master’s Degree in American Government, John holds a Juris Doctor from American University’s Washington College of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Long Island University. He has taught courses on lobbying the legislative process and American government at George Mason University, Trinity College, Northern Virginia Community College and The Washington Center. John and his wife reside in Fairfax, Virginia.