As the former staff director for the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Frank Lowenstein is able to draw on his experience in some of the most significant national security and foreign policy debates of the past decade to provide expert strategic guidance to Podesta Group clients.
Working closely with Chairman John Kerry (D-MA), Frank was responsible for the committee’s agenda, oversight activities, media strategy, and legal and legislative matters, including the ratification of the new START treaty and resolutions on Egypt and Libya. He coordinated with administration officials on policy and legislative issues, oversaw the confirmation process for State Department officials and ambassadors, and managed relations with foreign embassies. In these roles, he developed strong working relationships with senators and staff members from both parties.
Before becoming staff director for the committee, Frank served as Sen. Kerry’s senior foreign policy director, developing legislation regarding Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Burma. During Sen. Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004, Frank served as director of national security policy. He got his start in national security issues as a legislative aide on defense and foreign policy to former Sen. Robert Kerrey (D-NE), where he participated in a fact-finding mission to El Salvador.
Frank is the son of the legendary civil rights activist and New York Congressman Al Lowenstein and is named for his father’s mentor, the former US senator and president of the University of North Carolina, Frank Porter Graham. Frank received his bachelor’s from Yale University and earned his JD from Boston College School of Law, spending his third year of law school studying international law at Yale. At Yale, he played on the university’s squash team.
