De’Ana Dow brings more than 30 years of experience in financial services and government affairs to her position as Senior Vice President, Ogilvy Government Relations. Dow is one of the most recognized experts on energy and financial services issues that are before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). She specializes in futures and derivatives markets — covering all physical commodities, including energy, metals and agricultural, as well as financial commodities, such as interest rates, Treasury Bonds, equity indexes and Forex.
Prior to joining Ogilvy Government Relations, Dow served as the Managing Director for Government Affairs at CME Group, the world’s largest derivatives exchange. Before her time at CME Group, Dow was a senior vice president and chief legislative counsel for the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and was head of the NYMEX Washington, DC office. As the head lobbyist for NYMEX, she focused on energy-related issues and successfully guided the company through a difficult legislative agenda aimed at eliminating critical liquidity providers from the markets. As a lobbyist for the CME Group, she focused on the Dodd-Frank financial markets regulatory reform bill as it progressed through the House and Senate, and on regulatory actions at the CFTC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and Federal Trade Commission. Dow also spent time as an associate vice president and counsel in the Market Regulation Department at the NASD, now called FINRA, where she developed and supervised the futures markets regulatory program.
Dow began her legal career at the CFTC, where she served in a number of capacities for over 22 years, including counsel to Chairman William Rainer during the Clinton Administration and special adviser to Chairman James Newsome under the Bush Administration. She began her government career on Capitol Hill serving on the staff of Senator Walter D. Huddleston (D-KY).
Dow is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center. She is a member of the D.C. Bar Association and the Derivatives and Futures Law Committee of the American Bar Association.