Principal and Partner, The Scowcroft Group
About
Affiliation(s)
- Former Member, President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB)
- Overseas Private Investment Corporation (term concluded)
- Georgetown University (McDonough School of Business)
- Australian American Council
- International Advisory Board (Ancora Capital Management)
- International Affairs Visiting Committee (Case Western Reserve)
Fields of Study
A Principal and partner in The Scowcroft Group, Kevin Nealer provides risk analysis and direct investment support to the Group's multinational clients, specializing in financial services and trade policy issues. Mr. Nealer has lead responsibility for the firm’s support for the investment community, providing analysis to leading currency and equity/debt traders. In addition, he assists industrial and financial clients in project planning and implementing investment and work-out strategies. He has developed regulatory and government affairs solutions for clients, including the largest American investor in China, international banks, and leading private equity funds.
Click here for a panel discussion featuring Mr. Nealer at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.
Before joining The Scowcroft Group, Mr. Nealer advised multinational clients on investment issues, project finance, and trade law/policy as a principal in the consulting affiliate of Washington's largest law firm, and as vice president for corporate affairs with a leading government strategies practice. A trade attorney and former State Department officer, Mr. Nealer served as trade policy advisor to the Senate Democratic Leadership from 1982 to 1987. AFulbright professor in the People's Republic of China (1990-1991), Mr. Nealer has served as a lecturer, program moderator, and adjunct professor of trade law and policy at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business.
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he was an author of the Council’s report Beginning the Journey: China, The United States and the WTO, as well as a host of other articles on political economy. He is a consultant to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities on trade and economic security issues, and advised the Obama campaign on international economic and Asia policy. Following his confirmation by the United States Senate on December 14, 2010, Mr. Nealer was sworn in as a member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the development finance agency of the US government, where he served on the Audit and Governance Committees until the conclusion of his term in January, 2013. Mr. Nealer's term as a Member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board concluded in January, 2017.
