Douglas Farrar

Douglas Farrar is a Senior Advisor at the Center for Law and the Economy and a skilled public affairs and communications professional with two decades of experience across government, the nonprofit sector, the private sector, and Capitol Hill. He is the Principal at Maywood Strategies, a firm that provides strategic communications counsel and public affairs guidance to clients. Previously, he was the Director of the Office of Public Affairs at the Federal Trade Commission, where he was the agency’s lead spokesman and senior advisor to Chair Lina Khan. Earlier, he was Vice President of Communications and Strategy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, overseeing a global communications team spanning the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Mr. Farrar has appeared on CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg TV, and several other legacy and new media outlets. He has been quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Axios, POLITICO, and numerous other newspapers, digital publications, substacks, and other written media.

Mr. Farrar has also held leadership roles at the Aspen Institute and in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he advised a senior member of the Appropriations Committee. He is the co-author of A Song to My City: Washington, DC, and earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Georgetown University.