Mark Siegel has 25 years of experience on the highest level serving and providing strategic counsel to a broad range of domestic private and public sector clients. Mr. Siegel joined Locke Lord after three years as the Senior Vice President for Government and Public Affairs at New Century Financial Corporation, and served as head of one of the premier international representation practices.
A lifelong friend of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Siegel has three times represented Pakistani governments in Washington, D.C. He was Ms. Bhutto’s speechwriter for two decades, and collaborated with her on the international bestselling book “Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West” which was published shortly after her assassination. In 2008, Siegel was the guest on Jon Stewart’s Comedy Central discussing his book with Ms. Bhutto. With Duane Baughman, he was recently selected as a Peabody Award winner for their documentary BHUTTO which had premiered at the Sundance Film Institute.
Mr. Siegel has taught at the American University and at the George Washington University where he headed the University’s Semester In Washington Program. He currently lectures in Speech Writing and Speech Presentation at Columbia University. Siegel has written extensively for major newspapers in the United States and around the world, and frequently appears on television as a political analyst. He served as the Today Show’s on-air expert on the Electoral College during the presidential recount in 2000, and for three national conventions served as political consultant to Walter Cronkite. He wrote the first doctoral dissertation on the relationship of Party rules to structure and function.
After serving as Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola University, Mr. Siegel became Legislative Assistant for Domestic Affairs for Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-MN). He then served as Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee under Chairman Robert S. Strauss, and Deputy Assistant to the President in the Carter White House. He was the National Coordinator of the Draft Kennedy movement in 1979-1980. Serving on three party reform commissions of the national Democratic Party, Mr. Siegel was the principal drafter of the delegate selection rules under which Democratic Presidential candidates are nominated. He was an elected at-large member of the Democratic National Committee for ten years, and twice was the Director of the Party’s International Visitor Program at Democratic National Conventions. Siegel served on the Board of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs for 15 years where he directed the Institute’s programs in Asia. After heading two prominent lobbying firms for over 25 years, Siegel became Senior Vice President for Governmental Affairs of New Century Financial, and then served for three years as Chief of Staff to Congressman Steve Israel (D-NY), the current chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee.
Education
- Ph.D., Political Behavior, Political Parties, Congress, Northwestern University, 1972
Dissertation: “Toward A More Responsible Democratic Party: The Politics of Reform” - M.A., Northwestern University, 1968
Masters’ Thesis: “Black Legislative Role Representation ” - B.A., Political Science, with honors, Brooklyn College, 1967
Publications & Presentations
Lecturer on government, politics and Middle East issues across the United States and Canada, and in India, Venezuela, Israel, Egypt, Mexico and Brazil.
Presenter, Discussant and Participant at various academic conferences including the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Campaign Managers Speak; the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association and the New England Political Science Association, and Columbia University’s Oral History of the Middle East Project, Columbia University Library
Served as speech writer to: Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, DNC Chairman and Ambassador to Russia Robert S. Strauss, President Jimmy Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Senator Bill Bradley, Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, NACDS President Ron Zeigler, Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazabayev, and Congressman Steve Israel
Producer - Bhutto the Film, a Duane Baughman Film
- George Foster Peabody Awards 2012 – Winner of Peabody Award
- The White House Project 2011 – Winner of EPIC Award
- IDA Documentary Awards 2010 – Winner of the ABCNEWS VideoSource Award
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Articles
- "Civil Rights Act Was Beginning of the End for GOP," Roll Call Inc. (2009).
- "Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West," with Benazir Bhutto, Harper Collins (2008).
- "Conduct, Codes and Common Sense," (Chapter 8) in Shades of Gray: Perspective on Campaign Ethics, Brookings Institution Press (2002).
- "Reforming the Electoral College," Roll Call Inc. (2001).
- "Rush to Judgment: The Development and Consequences of the Frontloading Phenomenon in the Presidential Nominating System," National Association of Secretaries of State (1996).
- "Predicting Political Outcomes," The Chronicles of Higher Education (January 1996).
- "The Carter Example," The New Democrat (January 1993).
- "Transition Travails, You’ve Won, Now the Real Challenge Begins," Campaigns and Elections (November 1992).
- "Don’t Steal the People’s Votes," The Washington Post (June 22, 1992).
- "Change the Primary Rules to Allow Late Presidential Entries," Roll Call Inc. (March 9, 1992).
- "Is This Any Way to Pick a President?" Chicago Tribune (March 1992).
- "Saddam Hussein's Other Republic Guards," The Wall Street Journal (March 21, 1991).
- "Democracy: A Key to Mideast Peace," The Boston Globe
- "Everybody Does It," The New Republic (December 23, 1985).
- "Hussein, It’s Time to Act," The New York Times (December 7, 1983).
- "The Reluctant Incumbent," The Washington Post (April 23, 1978).
- "Security Means Life," The New York Times (March 26, 1978).
Electronic Media
- On-Air Consultant on the Electoral College, The Today Show, eight appearances during the 2000 Presidential Recount controversy
- Consultant and on-air commentator, CNN
- Frequent appearances on CNN: Cross-Fire, Inside Politics, Capital Gang and Both Sides With Jesse Jackson
- Appearances on NBC Today Show, NBC Nightly News, PBS MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, ABC television and radio, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, Fox
News and National Public Radio
- Political Consultant to Walter Cronkite at 1980 and 1984 Democratic National Convention and to Dan Rather at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
- Consultant and on-air analyst, Christian Science Monitor Television (1991-1992), weekly on-air political and congressional commentary
- Political Consultant, CNN, 1992 and 1996 Democratic National Conventions
Professional History
- Partner, Locke Lord Strategies, Washington, D.C.
- Senior Vice President for Corporate Affairs, New Century Financial Corporation (2004-2007)
- Chief of Staff, Congressman Steve Israel, NY-02, 2001-2004
- Professor of Political Management, Graduate School of Political Management, George Washington University, 1990-2001
- Director, George Washington University’s Semester in Washington Program, 1997-2000
- President, Mark A. Siegel and Associates, Inc., 1978-2001
- Adjunct Professor, American University, 2000-2003
- Chairman, International Public Strategies, Inc., 1988-2001
- Director, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 1987-2001
- Member, Democratic National Committee, 1981-1989
- Deputy Assistant to the President, President Jimmy Carter Administration, 1977-1978
- Member, Personnel Advisory Group, Carter-Mondale Transition, November 1976-January 1977
- Executive Director, Democratic National Committee, 1974-1977
- Executive Officer, Democratic National Committee, 1972-1974
- Lecturer/Assistant Professor of Political Science, Loyola University of Chicago 1970-1972
- Legislative Assistant for Domestic Affairs, Office of Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-MN), 1971-1972
- Director of Delegate and Credentials Procedures, Hubert H. Humphrey Presidential Campaign, 1972
- Congressional Fellow, American Political Science Association, 1971-1972
Professional Affiliations & Achievements
- Producer, Bhutto the Film (2010)
- IDA ABC / NEWS VideoSource Award, International Documentary Association (IDA) (2010)
- EPIC Award, The White House Project (2011)
- George Foster Peabody Award, Peabody Awards (2012)
- Member, NDI International Election Monitoring Delegation, 1996
- Chairman, USIA Party Training Seminar May, 1994, Zagreb and Split, Croatia
- Co-chairman, NDIIRI Joint Electoral Training Mission, May, 1992
- Chairman, NDI Delegation, Christian Democratic International Political Bureau and Christian Democratic International, Brussels 1992, 1993, Santiago de Chile, 1994
- Member, NDI Delegation, 1989-1991 Liberal International
- Election Monitor, 1988-1992, Romania, Poland, Haiti, Pakistan, the Soviet Union, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Angola
- Delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1988
- Member, National Democratic Delegate Selection Commissions (the Winograd Commission, 1976-1978, the Hunt Commission, 1982-1984, the Fowler Commission, 1986-1988)
- Member, Rules Committee of the Democratic National Conventions of 1980 and 1988 representing Senator Kennedy in 1980 and Governor Dukakis in 1988
- Chairman, International Visitors Program, Democratic National Convention, 1988
- Member at-large, Democratic National Committee, 1980-1989
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