Daniel McKivergan

Vice President, Government Relations

Politics and Government
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Daniel McKivergan is vice president of government relations at Hudson Institute.

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Biography

Daniel McKivergan is vice president of government relations at Hudson Institute.

Previously, Mr. McKivergan was executive vice president for policy at Baron Public Affairs where he focused on strategic communications and public policy analysis of domestic and international issues. He was also deputy policy director for the 2008 presidential campaign of Senator John McCain of Arizona. In this position, he managed the policy development process and debate preparation, and also coordinated policy-related activities with the campaign’s speechwriting and communications offices.

Over the years, Mr. McKivergan worked for various organizations, including the Philanthropy Roundtable as policy director and associate editor of the journal Philanthropy, and the Weekly Standard as the magazine’s online foreign editor. He also held the position of legislative director for Senator John McCain and former US Representative Daniel Miller of Florida. A graduate of Holy Cross and Johns Hopkins, Mr. McKivergan served in the United States Coast Guard Reserve and was a founding member of the board of directors for the Wounded Warrior Project (2005 to 2008), a nonprofit organization, headquartered in Jacksonville, FL, that supports various programs and initiatives to aide US servicemembers.

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September 2024
Past Event
The Future of US and Allied Hypersonic Missile Programs
Featured Speakers:
Major General Heather Pringle, USAF (Ret.), PhD
Congressman Doug Lamborn
Admiral James A. Winnefeld Jr., USN (Ret.)
Mike White
John Plumb
Congressman Don Bacon
Congressman Donald Norcross
Congressman Vince Fong
Moderators:
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
William Chou
Daniel McKivergan
A common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, at approximately 10:30 p.m. local time, March 19, 2020, during a Department of Defense flight experiment. (DVIDS)
20
September 2024
Past Event
The Future of US and Allied Hypersonic Missile Programs

Join Hudson for a workshop with congressional, government, and industry officials to discuss the future of the American hypersonic missile program. The Space Foundation’s Major General Heather Pringle, United States Air Force (ret.), will introduce a keynote address from Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO). Then expert panels will discuss the future of hypersonic missile offense and defense and how members of Congress can build a bipartisan consensus about the vital US hypersonic missile program.

A common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, at approximately 10:30 p.m. local time, March 19, 2020, during a Department of Defense flight experiment. (DVIDS)
Featured Speakers:
Major General Heather Pringle, USAF (Ret.), PhD
Congressman Doug Lamborn
Admiral James A. Winnefeld Jr., USN (Ret.)
Mike White
John Plumb
Congressman Don Bacon
Congressman Donald Norcross
Congressman Vince Fong
Moderators:
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
William Chou
Daniel McKivergan
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28
September 2022
Past Event
Establishing and Fortifying US National Security Supply Chains
Featured Speakers:
Representative Michael Turner
Representative Brian Fitzpatrick
Edlyn Levine, PhD
Gilbert Kaplan
Thomas J. Duesterberg
Nadia Schadlow
Daniel McKivergan
Staff Sgt. Neil Oltmer uses metallic inert gas welding to build a mounting plate on March 18, 2014, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. (US Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class David Bernal Del Agua)
28
September 2022
Past Event
Establishing and Fortifying US National Security Supply Chains

The United States must have secure, reliable, and scalable supply chains for critical supplies and technologies. For decades there has been an overrel

Staff Sgt. Neil Oltmer uses metallic inert gas welding to build a mounting plate on March 18, 2014, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. (US Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class David Bernal Del Agua)
Featured Speakers:
Representative Michael Turner
Representative Brian Fitzpatrick
Edlyn Levine, PhD
Gilbert Kaplan
Thomas J. Duesterberg
Nadia Schadlow
Daniel McKivergan
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17
December 2020
Past Event
Video Event | The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain
Featured Speakers:
Mark Salter
Daniel McKivergan
17
December 2020
Past Event
Video Event | The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain

**__Please be advised: This event will premiere LIVE on this page at 12:00 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, December 16.__**

Please join Hudson Institute for a c

Featured Speakers:
Mark Salter
Daniel McKivergan
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08
October 2020
Past Event
National Security and Election Security: A Discussion with DOJ Assistant Attorney General John Demers
Featured Speakers:
Daniel McKivergan
John Demers
08
October 2020
Past Event
National Security and Election Security: A Discussion with DOJ Assistant Attorney General John Demers

Join Hudson Institute and John Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S Department of Justice, for a discussion on Russia,

Featured Speakers:
Daniel McKivergan
John Demers
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09
March 2020
Past Event
Funding America's Defense Future: Discussing President Trump's Proposed Budget with Reps. Joe Courtney and Rob Wittman
Featured Speakers:
Seth Cropsey
Representative Joe Courtney
Daniel McKivergan
Representative Rob Wittman
09
March 2020
Past Event
Funding America's Defense Future: Discussing President Trump's Proposed Budget with Reps. Joe Courtney and Rob Wittman

**In accordance with U.S. government travel advisories aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus in the United States, Hudson Institute asks that

Featured Speakers:
Seth Cropsey
Representative Joe Courtney
Daniel McKivergan
Representative Rob Wittman
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03
March 2020
Past Event
Dialogues on American Foreign Policy and World Affairs: A Conversation with Kurt Campbell
Featured Speakers:
Kurt Campbell
Daniel McKivergan
Walter Russell Mead
03
March 2020
Past Event
Dialogues on American Foreign Policy and World Affairs: A Conversation with Kurt Campbell

On March 3rd, please join Kurt Campbell, former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs during the Obama Administration, and H

Featured Speakers:
Kurt Campbell
Daniel McKivergan
Walter Russell Mead
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04
December 2019
Past Event
The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home from Vietnam
Featured Speakers:
Heath Hardage Lee
Andrea Rander
Daniel McKivergan
04
December 2019
Past Event
The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home from Vietnam

Hudson Institute will host a discussion with author Heath Hardage Lee on her new book, The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on

Featured Speakers:
Heath Hardage Lee
Andrea Rander
Daniel McKivergan
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