Staff Bios

BRUCE ADAMS serves as president of A GREATER WASHINGTON. Bruce is the founder of the Lazarus Leadership Fellows Program at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, the founder and president of the Bethesda Community Base Ball Club, and a member of the boards of WETA and 1,000 Friends of Maryland. Previously, Bruce served as senior fellow of The James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at The University of Maryland; member and president of the Montgomery County Council; associate of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation; fellow of the Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University; and national research director at Common Cause. A native of Potomac, Maryland, Bruce and his wife, Peggy Engel, and their two children live in Bethesda. Bruce graduated from Princeton University and the Georgetown University Law Center. Bruce’s passions are regional collaboration and baseball.

"Imagine" is a Smithsonian speech about "A Greater Washington."

ROBERT BRANDON serves as Director of A Greater Washington. Bob is the president of Robert M. Brandon & Associates, a public interest public affairs firm where he advises consumer campaigns in policy areas as diverse as telecommunications, health care, law reform and access to the legal system and electric utility policy. Bob served as director of the Washington office of Citizen Action; executive director of the Citizen Labor Energy Coalition; and director of the Tax Reform Research Group. He was appointed to the Internal Revenue Service Commissioner’s Advisory Group, co-chaired the Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the Individual Rights Section of the American Bar Association, and serves on DC Agenda’s Health Policy Task Force. Bob grew up in New York and is a graduate of Syracuse University and the National Law Center at George Washington University. He is a member of Cleveland Park Citizens Association and recently received the “Father of the Year” award from the DC Federation of Civic Associations. He and his wife, Nancy, and their three children live in Washington, DC.