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Frank
Lowenstein

Executive Director, Public Affairs

Frank Lowenstein is an international policy expert and former high-ranking State Department official. He served as special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations for the U.S. Department of State and has deep expertise in policy development, strategic communication, and legal practice which he brings to his leadership at APCO.

There is no spoon.
– The Matrix

Frank also served as a senior advisor to Secretary of State John Kerry. A longtime advisor to Secretary Kerry, he previously served as a principal in a leading Washington lobbying firm and as staff director and chief counsel for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), before joining the State Department in 2013. During Secretary Kerry’s time in the Senate, Frank was his senior foreign policy advisor and directed the SFRC Subcommittee on Near East and South and Central Asian Affairs, a role which saw him travel extensively with then-Senator Kerry throughout the Middle East.

From 2003 to 2004, Frank was the director of national security policy for the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign. Prior to joining the campaign, he practiced law for six years in Boston.

Frank holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a juris doctorate degree from Boston College Law School.