Craig Byron Holman, Ph.D.
Dr. Craig Holman is currently the Capitol Hill lobbyist for Public Citizen in Washington, D.C. He serves as the organization’s representative on campaign finance and governmental ethics. Holman also frequently teaches campaign finance, governmental ethics and lobby reform. Previously, Holman was Senior Policy Analyst at the Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law, and before that as senior researcher at the Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles, California.
Holman was recognized by the Washingtonian Magazine as one of the 500 most influential people on Capitol Hill in 2021 and again in 2022. He continues to work closely with reform organizations and congressional leadership in drafting and promoting provisions of the former “For the People Act,” the sweeping ethics and campaign finance reform act that has passed the House but stalled in the Senate last year; the “STOCK Act” that applied for the first time the laws against insider trading to members of Congress in 2012 and subsequent legislation to ban congressional stock trading altogether; as well as measures to strengthen the “Honest Leadership and Open Government Act,” the federal lobbying and ethics reform legislation signed into law in 2008.
Holman presented an academic paper, entitled “Deepfakes and Campaign Communications: Fueling Distrust in Elections,” before the 2024 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia, and subsequently lectured on the same subject at an “Elections Matter Forum” in Madison sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Law School. He has frequently lectured internationally as well, touring across Italy and Brazil in the summer of 2016, sponsored by the State Department, on political corruption and elections in the United States. He has also lectured on governmental ethics and lobby reform on several occasions in Brussels and Prague, and frequently testifies about government reform before the U.S. Congress, the European Parliament and Commission, and federal regulatory agencies.
Some of his publications include: “The Structure and Organization of Congress and the Practice of Lobbying,” (co-authored with Jamie Conrad), in Rebecca Gordon and Thomas Susman (American Bar Association), eds. The Lobbying Manual (2024 and 2016); “The Tension Between Lobbying and Campaign Finance Laws: Rolling Back the Gains Made Under the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act,” Election Law Journal (2014); “Lobbying and Transparency: A Comparative Analysis of Regulatory Reform,” (co-authored with William Luneburg) Interest Groups & Advocacy (2012); and “Promoting Integrity of Lobbying by Self-Regulation,” (co-authored with Thomas Susman) in Janos Bertok (OECD), ed. Lobbyists, Government and the Public Trust (Paris, 2010).