Christopher Dorval

Christopher Dorval has served at the highest levels of business and government. He is currently President of Dorval Strategies, LLC a Washington, DC-based business that operates at the intersection of politics, policy and communications. The firm provides strategic communication and political counsel, reputation management, leadership communications training, crisis communication and media relations expertise, and marketing services to commercial, non-government and government entities in the US and the global marketplace.
Dorval works with leaders in multiple sectors all over the world including hightech, higher education, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, investment and financial institutions and more. Internationally, he has worked for governments and political campaigns around the world in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
Dorval served as a political appointee in several administrations including as a senior executive at the Export-Iimport Bank of the United States, the White House and at the U.S. Department of State on a range of issues focused on trade, the economy and global health, to name a few.
At home or abroad, Dorval focuses on results for clients based on clear direction, decisive action and measurable results. He takes a 360 degree view of every challenge and charts the right way forward, from strategy to implementation.
Dorval is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and has been an adjunct professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He served on the Board of Trustees of the National Building Museum; the National Advisory Board of the McGovern Library and Center for Public Service; and the Junior Tennis Champion Center in College Park. He was a guest of the Senate of Berlin and selected as a guest participant in the European Community Visitor’s Programme. He has been published in the Boston Globe and his extensive work on US immigration reform was captured in the HBO series How Democracy Works.
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