Cesar Conda is a principal and member of the Executive Committee of Navigators and is based out of the Washington, D.C. office.   Mr. Conda heads the Policy Development practice of Navigators, advising Fortune 500 corporations and leading business trade associations on government relations strategies, policy analysis and development, coalition building, and opinion leader outreach.

Mr. Conda has 25 years of legislative and policy experience working at the highest levels in the White House, the U.S. Senate and for presidential campaigns. He recently served as assistant for domestic policy to Vice President Dick Cheney.  According to columnist Robert Novak, Mr. Conda “as Vice President Dick Cheney’s domestic policy chief was instrumental in devising the Bush tax cuts.”  Prior to joining the Bush White House in 2001, he spent over a dozen years as a senior advisor in the U.S. Senate, serving as legislative director and administrative assistant to Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI), minority staff director for the Small Business Committee and legislative assistant to Senator Bob Kasten (R-WI).  Mr. Conda was a policy advisor to the 1996 Dole-Kemp campaign, and was recently a senior economic policy advisor to the 2008 Mitt Romney for President campaign.

Mr. Conda has earned recognition in several influential publications and is currently one of National Journal’s “GOP Political Insiders.” Roll Call, a leading Capitol Hill publication, included him in its "Fabulous Fifty" list of top congressional aides. National Journal also named him one of the "best and brightest" among Republican congressional staff and one of the "Top 50 Bush White House Staff Members." In 1999, he received the "Congressional Staffer of the Year Award" from the Information Technology Industry Council, in recognition for his work on information technology legislation. 

In his over two decades in Washington, Mr. Conda has held senior positions with several leading free-market conservative think tanks, including the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, Freedom Works, the Free Enterprise Fund, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Empower America, serving on the Board of Directors of the two latter organizations.  He is currently the co-chair of the Executive Committee of the Susan B. Anthony List.

Mr. Conda, currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The International Economy Magazine, has written opinion-editorials for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, National Review Online, The Weekly Standard, The Financial Times and United Press International. 

Mr. Conda is a graduate from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.