Washington, D.C. (June 12, 2025) – BGR Group, Washington, D.C.’s, premier bipartisan lobbying and public relations firm, announced that Daniel F. Runde has joined the firm as a Senior Advisor. In his role, Dan will work across the firm to advise clients on a variety of challenges in Washington and beyond. His background includes extensive experience at entities including the State Department, the Development Finance Corporation, the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank, the World Bank and the regional Multilateral Development Banks. He also brings depth of knowledge regarding Latin America, Africa, Central Asia and Ukraine.
“Dan brings deep national security and foreign policy expertise to our firm,” BGR Chairman and CEO Bob Wood said. “He is a trusted advisor to government and businesses given his extensive experience at critical agencies including the Export Import Bank, State Department, and World Bank extremely well. His expertise will be a tremendous asset to our clients and the firm.”
Prior to joining BGR Group, Dan was a senior vice president, director of the Project on Prosperity and Development (PPD), and held the William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a leading global think tank. He remains a Senior Advisor at CSIS. He also served as the acting director for the CSIS Americas Program from 2020-2022. His work has been oriented around U.S. leadership in building a more democratic and prosperous world. He was as an architect of the BUILD Act, contributed to the reauthorization of the U.S. EXIM Bank in 2018, and was an architect of Prosper Africa, a U.S. government initiative to deepen the United States’ commercial and development engagement in Africa.
Dan has also held leadership roles at the State Department and the World Bank Group. Earlier in his career, he worked in commercial banking at Citibank in Argentina and in investment banking at Alex. Brown & Sons.
Dan holds the Officer’s Cross in the Order of Isabel la Católica, a Spanish civil order. He is a Commander in the Order of Rio Branco, a Brazilian civil order and has been officially recognized by the governments of Colombia and Ecuador for deepening ties with those countries. Fluent in Spanish, he graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and holds a master’s in public policy from Harvard University.
