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Richard Wegman is engaged in administrative and legislative practice on behalf of U.S. and foreign public entities, trade associations, and private corporations, both for-profit and nonprofit. He has handled clean air and natural resource issues for the government of Canada and the provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, environmental matters for the government of Bermuda, and energy, trade and tax legislative matters for U.S. Steel Corporation and Marathon Oil Corporation.
During his service in the public sector, he served as chief counsel and staff director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. He was also asked by President Carter to direct the work on the National Agenda for the Eighties, a blue-ribbon panel of governors, university presidents and corporate executives that developed recommendations for White House initiatives on environmental, energy, housing and urban policy.
Professional Activities
- Chairman, Montgomery County (Maryland) Green Task Force, 2009
- Member, Governor's Task Force on Utility Services, 1999-2000
- Member, Administrative Conference of the United States, 1990-1992
- Chairman, Montgomery County (Maryland) Commission on Efficiency and Effectiveness, 1989-1991
- Vice Chairman, Montgomery County (Maryland) Commission on the Future, 1986-1988
- Member, Board of Trustees, National Academy of Public Administration, 1983-1989
- Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University, 1978-1982
