Peter Loge
Peter Loge has more than two decades of experience in the politics of public policy. Most recently he served as a senior advisor to the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in the Obama administration, a Presidentially appointed position the Commissioner created for Peter. In this role, he developed and helped lead the implementation strategic communication for the FDA for some of the administration’s top health priorities including the Cancer Moonshot, the Precision Medicine Initiative, combating opioid crisis, and others.
From 2013 – 2015 Peter was the first vice president for external relations at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) where his portfolio included Congressional relations, intergovernmental affairs, communications, development, and the Global Peacebuilding Center. He was also part of the organization’s senior management team and was the interim liaison to the Institute’s board.
Prior to joining USIP , Peter Loge was the founder and principal at the Washington-DC based legislative strategy firm Milo Public Affairs LLC, where his clients ranged from AmericanSpeaks and “America’s Funniest Home Videos” to the World Wildlife Fund and WickedCoolStuff.com.
In 2009, Peter took a leave of absence from Milo Public Affairs to serve as a senior adviser former U.S. Representative Steve Kagen, M.D. (D-WI) on health care reform. Peter helped Representative Kagen, a second-term Democrat from a Republican district, shape and promote his health care agenda. Peter also managed the Congressional Business Owners Caucus, a group of 50-plus Democratic Representatives who owned businesses before coming to Congress.
Before launching Milo Public Affairs Peter was a Senior Vice President at M+R Strategic Services, a national public affairs and political consulting firm. At M+R Peter directed the Media Relations team and provided strategic counsel to a wide array of clients including the Save Darfur Coalition, Human Rights First, and the Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors. Before joining M+R Peter served as the first Director of The Justice Project, which helped redefine the national death penalty and criminal justice debate.
Peter has extensive experience in communications and political strategy including serving as a Regional Field Director for the Concord Coalition, as the Chief of Staff, Press Secretary, and Campaign Manager to U.S. Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA), Director of Constituent Services to former U.S. Representative Sam Coppersmith (D-AZ), and Deputy to the Chief of Staff to the late Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA). Peter managed Sherman’s first re-election campaign, made Coppersmith the first member of Congress with a presence on the internet in 1993, and while working for Senator Kennedy coordinated the first online chat with a federal elected official.
Peter was an adjunct instructor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at the The George Washington University for more than a decade, he lectures regularly on politics and lobbying, and he is featured in the award-winning political documentary Split: A Divided America.
Peter teaches courses on language, rhetoric and politics at George Washington University, has been quoted in local and national media, has provided analysis and commentary on the syndicated PBS program White House Chronicle, XM/Sirius, and other national media outlets and his writing has been published by the Drake Law Review, the edited volume Wounds that Do Not Bind: Victim Perspectives on the Death Penalty, the Journal of the Caucus for Television Producers, Writers & Directors, The Hill newspaper, the IJ Review, the International Forum for the Challenges of Peace Operations, and others.
Peter’s wide-ranging career includes: serving a term as the President of the Emerson College Alumni Association; holding the elected position of Vice Chair of the Maricopa County Democratic Party (Phoenix, AZ); serving as director of forensics at Clemson University; teaching at Arizona State University, Emerson College and elsewhere; appearing as a political satirist on National Public Radio and the BBC World Service; having his sculpture shown in galleries in Washington, DC; serving as board chair of DC Scores; helping found and serve on the boards of America Scores, NEXT PAC, Good Works PAC, Equal Justice USA, and ServeNext; and reporting for The Business Journal in Phoenix, AZ.
Peter is a graduate of Emerson College and holds graduate degrees from Syracuse University and Arizona State University. Peter is a recipient of the Walter Littlefield Distinguished Speaker and Rhetoric and Communication Award from Emerson College and is an Associate Fellow of Timothy Dwight College at Yale University.
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