Neil Dhillon
Managing Director, MSL Washington DC
Neil Dhillon joined as managing director of MSL Washington, D.C. He leads the firm’s national public affairs practice. Dhillon is responsible for the office’s client and new business development, talent recruitment, managing key client relationships, and working closely with the agency's public affairs experts around the world to develop best practices for the agency’s public affairs offering.
Dhillon has 25 years of experience providing strategic communications and public affairs counsel in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining MSLGROUP, he was managing director of Ruder Finn's D.C. office. There, he built a successful public affairs practice, and, on behalf of clients, interacted daily with Congress and The White House to assist on policy issues affecting their businesses and industries. He also served for six years as director of public affairs for Hill & Knowlton where he led an award-winning public affairs practice. In government, he served as deputy assistant secretary of government affairs for President William Jefferson Clinton at the U.S. Department of Transportation, and was chief of staff to Congressman Bob Matsui (D-California), where he managed his tax, trade, and health care agenda in the powerful House Ways & Means Committee.