Doug Hattaway

Doug Hattaway is President and CEO of Hattaway Communications, Inc., a strategic communications firm based in Washington, DC. As an American communications consultant and spokesperson he has served dozens of major organizations, political campaigns, and government leaders in the U.S. and around the world. Hattaway was a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton during her 2008 presidential run, as well as Al Gore’s spokesman during the 2000 election, and was reported by the Washington Post to be on a short list of candidates to serve as White House press secretary in the Obama administration. His calming presence on the campaign trail in 2008 and his prominent role during the Florida election recount – “the political story of the century” – gained him much attention, and he was named "an important figure in politics" by the Washington Post website, Who Runs Gov.

Hattaway has appeared frequently as an analyst and commentator on CNN and MSNBC.

Hattaway graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and a major in Political Science. He received his Master of Arts in English from Florida State University.

From 1986-89, Hattaway was press secretary to Representative Andy Ireland (R-FL), who had been elected in 1973 as a Democrat, but switched parties in 1984. Hattaway worked for Rep. Ireland when he was a member of the House Armed Services and Intelligence committees and co-chair of the Defense Burden Sharing Panel, which examined U.S. defense policy in Europe.

During the 1990s, he worked as a freelance correspondent, writing about politics, economics and environmental issues in South and Central America, Northern Ireland, and the Caribbean.

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