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Anthony P. Campau

Principal, Clark Hill Public Strategies
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Anthony P. Campau helps clients to develop and execute strategies to drive technical, regulatory, statutory, and other public policy outcomes within the U.S. Federal Government. He also advises on corporate governance, compliance, highly regulated transactions, audits and investigations, cross-border issues, federal contracts, licenses, approvals, and business judgments in legally and politically complex environments. An alumnus of the first Trump White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (“OIRA”), Anthony leads federal advocacy for Clark Hill Public Strategies and is a Member of Clark Hill’s Government Contracts and Regulation practice.

Prior to joining the firm, Anthony served in the Executive Office of the President as Chief of Staff and Counselor for OIRA, which oversees the development of new federal regulations and guidance, sets and enforces federal information policy, and plays a key role in cross-cutting initiatives like the regulation of artificial intelligence, the development of tariff exclusion frameworks, the negotiation of trade agreements, and the modernization of permitting and approval processes across the government.

Prior to that, Anthony served as a member of President Trump’s initial staff Beachhead Team at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”), where he worked with leaders across the government to manage key aspects of the transition. From late 2016 to early 2017, he was a core member of the Regulatory Reform Team on the Trump Presidential Transition Team, where he helped to draft the regulatory reform plan of the first Trump Administration.

Anthony clerked for Judge Neomi Rao of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, was in-house counsel and assistant secretary of the board for a large university, and has served as a policy fellow at various think tanks in Washington, D.C. Anthony has testified before Congress, advised leading policymakers and thought leaders, published, and spoken widely on a range of substantive and procedural issues of administrative law and regulatory policy.

As a former top regulator, federal appellate clerk, in-house counsel, and corporate officer, Anthony sees and understands the many dimensions of regulatory and other legal challenges and helps clients to navigate them successfully.

Education

LL.M., Securities and Financial Regulation, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
B.A., Southeastern University, Lakeland, Florida

State Bar Licenses

District of Columbia, New York

Court Admissions

U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit

Clerkships

  • Law Clerk to Judge Neomi Rao, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit

Government Service

  • Chief of Staff and Counselor, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President
  • Chief of Staff and Counselor, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President
  • President Trump’s Initial Staff Team, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President
  • Core Member, Regulatory Reform Team, Trump Presidential Transition Team