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Vin Weber (Chairman) is managing partner of Clark & Weinstock's Washington office. Mr. Weber provides strategic advice to institutions with matters before the legislative and executive branches of the Federal government.

Mr. Weber is Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy, a private, nonprofit organization designed to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts. He is a senior fellow at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, where he is co-director of the Policy Forum (formerly the Mondale Forum). Mr. Weber is a board member of several private sector and non-profit organizations, including ITT Educational Services, Department 56, and the Aspen Institute. He also serves on the Board of The Council on Foreign Relations and co-chaired a major independent task force on U.S. Policy Toward Reform in the Arab World with former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In addition, Mr. Weber is a member of the U.S. Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board.

Mr. Weber is one of the most prominent and successful strategists in the Republican Party and served as the Bush-Cheney '04 Plains States Regional Chairman. He has been featured in numerous national publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, National Journal, and The New Republic. Mr. Weber is a sought-after political and policy analyst, appearing frequently on major television outlets, including NBC's Nightly News, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, ABC's This Week, the CBS Early Show, Fox News Channel, CNN, and MSNBC.

Prior to opening Clark & Weinstock's Washington office in 1994, Mr. Weber was president - and co-director with Jack Kemp, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Bill Bennett - of Empower America, a public policy advocacy group.

Mr. Weber served in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1993, representing Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District. He was a member of the Appropriations Committee and an elected member of the House Republican Leadership. Prior to his Congressional service, he served as campaign manager and chief Minnesota aide to Sen. Rudy Boschwitz (1978-1980), and as the co-publisher of The Murray County Herald (1976-1978).

Mr. Weber continues to enjoy strong bipartisan relationships across the legislative and executive branches of government. He and his wife Cheryl have two daughters. The Webers maintain homes in Alexandria, Virginia and Walker, Minnesota.