Robert Housman, JD Biography
- Title:
- Partner at Book Hill Partners consulting firm
- Position:
- Con to the question "Should Performance Enhancing Drugs (Such as Steroids) Be Accepted in Sports?"
- Reasoning:
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“Performance-enhancing drugs seriously risk the health and safety of users, especially young people. The risks of steroid use include: elevated cholesterol levels, increased incidence of heart disease, addiction, serious liver damage, sex-trait changes and often severe behavioral changes, particularly heightened aggressiveness. No victory is worth the damage these substances do to a person – just ask the parents who told the hearing their children committed suicide because of steroid use. Stars who use these dangerous drugs set a deadly example for children.”
“Steroids and the Feds,” Washington Times, Apr. 6, 2005
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Partner, Book Hill Partners, Dec. 2007-present
- Adjunct Professor, Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security, University of Maryland, University College, Jan. 2006-present
- Board of Directors, Taylor Hooton Foundation
- Principal, Housman Group, May 2005-Dec. 2007
- Former Senior Vice President, Fleishman-Hillard Government Relations (FHGR)
- Counsel, Government Relations, Bracewell & Patterson, Feb. 2001-May 2004
- Assistant Director, Strategic Planning, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), 1997-2001
- Former Senior Advisor at large to General Barry McCaffrey
- Co-Counsel, International Audit Team, Sydney Olympic Games, 2000
- Member, President’s delegation to Venezuela and the United Nations General Assembly Special Session, 1998
- Former Member, White House Olympic Task Force
- Former Member, White House Task Force on the Reforming the Safe and Drug Free Schools Program
- Former Deputy Head, US Delegation to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
- Education:
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- JD, Washington College of Law, American University, 1990
- BA, Government, Saint Lawrence University, 1987
- Other:
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- None found
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