Senior Vice President, Ogilvy Government Relations

De’Ana Dow is a senior vice president with Ogilvy Government Relations, one of Washington’s most successful bipartisan government relations firms, and brings more than 30 years of experience in financial services and government affairs counsel to many of the firm’s clients.  Dow is one of the most recognized experts on energy and financial services issues before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.  She specializes in futures and derivatives markets—covering all physical commodities, including energy, metals and agricultural, as well as financial commodities, such as interest rates, Treasury Bonds, equity indexes and forex.

Prior to joining Ogilvy Government Relations, Dow served as the Managing Director for Government Affairs at CME Group, the world’s largest derivatives exchange. Before her time at CME Group, Dow was Senior Vice President and Chief Legislative Counsel for the New York Mercantile Exchange, and was head of the NYMEX Washington, DC, office.  As the head lobbyist for the New York Mercantile Exchange, she focused on energy related issues and successfully guided the company through a difficult legislative agenda aimed at eliminating critical liquidity providers from the markets.  As a lobbyist for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, she focused on the Dodd Frank financial market regulatory reform bill as it progressed through the House and Senate, and on regulatory actions at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve.

Dow also spent time as an associate vice president and Counsel in the Market Regulation Department at the NASD, now called FINRA, where she developed and supervised the futures market regulatory program.

Dow began her legal career at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission where she served in a number of capacities over 22 years, including Counsel to Chairman William Rainer during the Clinton Administration, and Special Advisor to Chairman James Newsome under the Bush Administration. She began her career on Capitol Hill serving on the staff of Kentucky Democratic Senator Walter Huddleston.

Dow serves on the board of the Washington Tennis and Education Foundation, which was established 55 years ago to help improve the life prospects of underprivileged children of Washington, D.C., through its education and athletic programs. She also serves on the board of Pathways for Living, Inc., a non-profit corporation that offers a variety of community service programs including, a women’s shelter, day care and affordable housing.