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Ralph Nurnberger Government Affairs Specialist
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Ralph Nurnberger is a government affairs specialist, is
Senior Partner in Nurnberger & Associates, a public affairs firm,
and he
brings an impressive
list of bi-partisan relationships in
both chambers of Congress and the
administration. His lobbying efforts
focus on foreign policy and high
technology. Ralph served as
legislative assistant for foreign
policy and defense for Senator James
Pearson (R-KS) and as a professional
staff member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee's Subcommittee on
Foreign Economic Policy. He
has held two positions in the
executive branch, first as Special
Assistant to the Administrator of the
General Services Administration and
then as Director of Congressional
Relations for the Bureau of Export
Administration within the Department
of Commerce. For more than
eight years, he served as a
Legislative Liaison for the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee, which
has been called the "most effective
public policy lobby in Washington" by
The New York Times. He spent
two years as a senior fellow at the
Center for Strategic and International
Studies (CSIS), where he directed the
Congressional relations program, ran a
number of conferences, and co-authored
and edited books dealing with
Congressional leadership and the role
of Congress in foreign
policy. Ralph
was the first staff director of
Builders for Peace, an organization
established in 1993, with the
encouragement of Vice President Al
Gore, to assist the Middle East peace
process by encouraging private sector
investment in the West Bank and
Gaza. He helped establish the
India Abroad Center for Political
Awareness and serves as a Washington
Associate for the Center. He helps
coordinate the Center's activities,
including a summer internship program
that places 16 students in
Congressional offices. Ralph Nurnberger also serves as a government affairs conselor for Preston Gates. He has
taught graduate level courses on
Congress and international relations
at Georgetown University, where he has
served as an Adjunct Professor since
1975. His most recent course dealt
with American foreign policy in the
post Cold War era. He speaks
frequently throughout the country on
political and foreign policy
topics. His articles have appeared in
The Washington Post, The Washington
Times, Christian Science Monitor,
Baltimore Sun and numerous scholarly
journals. He has recently completed a
volume entitled "Lobbying in America."
B.A., Queens
College, 1967, Phi Beta
Kappa
M.A.,
Columbia University, 1968
Ph.D., Georgetown
University, 1975
Foreign Languages Spoken:
German