LegiStorm

Summary

Biographical

Family:

Education

• Georgetown University Law Center - JD (1992)

• London School of Economics and Political Science - MSc, economics (1982)

• Cornell University - BA, history, cum laude (1981)

• Blackburn College - Attended

• National Autonomous University of Mexico - Attended

Office History

Election Results

• 2017 (Nov. 8, 2016 election)

  U.S. Senate Seat for Illinois (Class 3)
  Ladda Tammy Duckworth (Tammy), 54.86%

  Democrat
  Mark Steven Kirk, 39.78%

  Republican
  Kenton McMillen, 3.20%

  Libertarian
  Scott Summers, 2.14%

  Green

• 2009 (Nov. 4, 2008 election)

  10th Congressional District of Illinois
  Mark Steven Kirk, 52.56%

  Republican
  Daniel J. Seals, 47.44%

  Democrat

• 2007 (Nov. 7, 2006 election)

  10th Congressional District of Illinois
  Mark Steven Kirk, 53.38%

  Republican
  Daniel J. Seals, 46.62%

  Democrat

• 2005 (Nov. 2, 2004 election)

  10th Congressional District of Illinois
  Mark Steven Kirk, 64.14%

  Republican
  Lee Goodman, 35.86%

  Democrat

• 2003 (Nov. 5, 2002 election)

  10th Congressional District of Illinois
  Mark Steven Kirk, 68.81%

  Republican
  Henry H Hank Perritt Jr, 31.19%

  Democrat

• 2001 (Nov. 7, 2000 election)

  10th Congressional District of Illinois
  Mark Steven Kirk, 51.19%

  Republican
  Lauren Beth Gash, 48.81%

  Democrat

Employment History

• Kirk Global Advisors (Jan. 2017-)

  Founder

• U.S. Blockchain Advocacy Partners (Sept. 2019-2021)

  Executive Partner

Associated Organizations

• Kirk for Senate (Illinois)

• Lincoln PAC

• New American Leadership Fund

Awards

• Spirit of Enterprise Award (U.S. Chamber of Commerce) (March 2017)

• Manufacturing Legislative Excellence Award (National Association of Manufacturers) (Nov. 2016)

• Manufacturing Legislative Excellence Award (National Association of Manufacturers) (Oct. 2016)

• Guardian of Small Business (National Federation of Independent Business Inc.) (Sept. 2016)

• Senate Legislator of the Year Award (Disabled American Veterans) (April 5, 2016)

• Lincoln Award for Leadership (Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence) (Oct. 19, 2015)

• Hero of Main Street (National Retail Federation) (July 2015)

• Filippo Mazzei Award (Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans) (June 1, 2015)

Official Signature

Contact Information

Main Office
275 Whistler Road
Highland Park, Illinois 60035
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Lobbying and Foreign Representation

Listed as lobbyist by registrants:

• Kirk Global Advisors (2019-2020)
• RKF Global Consulting Inc. (2021)

Lobbied on behalf of:

• MP Materials Corp.
• SEA Electric LLC

Registered to represent foreign interests by:

• BGR Government Affairs LLC

Privately Financed Travel

12 trips taken between 2001 - 2011 costing $91,025

See map of trips

Personal Financial Disclosures

Disclosures as a member:

Foreign Gifts

• 2/25/2005: Helicopter travel between Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico - Toluca, Mexico - Tonatico, Mexico from Mexico
• 8/24/2007-9/1/2007: 1) $100 Chinese visa fee 2) $1601 domestic air travel 3) $228 ground transportation 4) $266 meal expenses 5) $532 lodging 6) $15 registration and entrance fees to exhibits and local sites from China ($2,742.00)
• 1/9/2006-1/15/2006: Ground Transportation: Beijing 267 RMB; Shanghai 133 RMB, Domestic Air Flights: Beijing-Lanzhou 1,340 RMB; Lazhou-Jiayunguan 1,820 RMB (round trip); Lazhou-Shanghai 1,750 RMB, Meals: total 1,000 RMB from China
• 4/2/1999: Air transportation from Amman to Petra, Jordan and back from Jordan
• 4/30/2011: Transportation from Djibouti to Bosasso, Somalia. from Somalia
• 5/18/2011: Blue lacquered vase from China ($200.00)

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Congressional Staff

Caught Our Eye

• Oversight counsel and lobbyist returns to Senate GOP

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 25, 2023
  A Republican attorney is back to the Senate, now with experience lobbying and navigating congressional investigations. read more

• Former Sen. Mark Kirk and old flame retroactively register as lobbyists

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 28, 2020
  Ex-Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and his one-time girlfriend quietly registered as first-time lobbyists for work they began a year ago. read more

• Banner Public Affairs picks up ex-Senate aide

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 7, 2017
  Three months after former Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) lost his reelection bid to Democrat Tammy Duckworth, his deputy chief of staff has found a new home at Banner Public Affairs. read more

• Staffer with health background jumps to drug company

  Posted by J. Todd Foster on April 20, 2016
  The former health policy adviser for Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) has joined Alexion Pharmaceuticals. read more

• Investor protections organization hires Kirk legislative counsel

  Posted by Jenna Ebersole on Aug. 27, 2015
  The North American National Securities Administrators Association has a new counsel fresh from working as a counsel in the Senate. read more

• Congress salutes Lincoln on 150th anniversary of his death

  Posted by Jenna Ebersole on April 15, 2015
  As the nation remembered an assassinated president this week, lawmakers joined in honoring Abraham Lincoln on Twitter with photos, favorite quotes and even sketches of a leader who helped save the union. read more

• Posted by Chip Slawson on July 24, 2013
  A former lobbyist for the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta has moved to the Hill to help Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) on his Senate Banking subcommittee. read more

• Posted by Nick Blair on July 18, 2013
  A former legislative assistant to Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) has returned to the Hill through the revolving door. read more

• Posted by Daimon Eklund on March 4, 2013
  Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.)'s senior policy adviser took a short trip to Philadelphia last year and then apparently forgot all about it. read more

• Posted by Garrett Snedeker on May 30, 2012
  Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.)'s health policy adviser waited three months after a trip to Guatemala to file her necessary disclosure forms. It was two months past the filing deadline but sooner than two likely congressional companions who have yet to file. read more