Robert Housman

Rob Housman is a principal in The Housman Group, a public affairs, government relations and strategic planning firm.

From 1996 to 2001, Rob served as Assistant Director of Strategic Planning in the White House Drug Czar's Office. As an adviser at large to Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey (U.S. Army Ret.) he had input on virtually all aspects of our nation's counter drug policies. He played a lead role in the Clinton administration's efforts to combat drug use in sports and reform the International Olympic Committee. He wrote the first-ever White House Strategy on combating drug use in sports. He wrote the first-ever Executive Order (13165) on inter-agency efforts to combat drug use in sports, which was signed by President Clinton on August 11, 2000. He led the first-ever inter-agency task force against drug use in sports, which was formed under the Executive Order. He served on numerous international delegations including as deputy head of the U.S. delegation to the World Anti-Doping Agency. He was the United States' leadnegotiator for the multinational negotiations on reform of the IOC and for the negotiations on the establishment of the World Anti-Doping Agency. He served on the White House Task Force for the Salt Lake Olympic Games. He also served, on detail, as co-counsel to the WADA audit team for the Sydney Olympic Games.

He has published widely on a range of topics. He also teaches homeland security and counter-terrorism for the University of Maryland and has lectured on international law for American University's Law School and national security for Syracuse University's Maxwell School.