Mr. Soroush Richard Shehabi
Soroush Richard Shehabi is a Senior Political
Advisor for General Wesley K. Clark, and acting
Political Director for constituent outreach. Prior
to that, he worked as a Trial Attorney at the
Department of Justice in Washington DC, in the
Environment Enforcement Section, where he was
responsible for enforcing the environmental laws
of the United States on behalf of a variety of
client agencies. Originally admitted to the bar
in California, he has represented the United States
in federal courts in Florida, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, North and South
Carolina, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, and California.
Mr. Shehabi was born in Kansas and grew up in
San Francisco. He attended Harvard University
(Class of 1987) where he obtained approval from
the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to establish
an interdisciplinary course of study in International
Relations and Environmental Science & Policy.
He received grants from the Ford Foundation and
Kennedy School of Government to research and write
an honors thesis on global environmental security,
focusing on a comparison of the energy and chemical
industries in France, Germany, Britain and the
United States and their responses to transboundary
acid deposition and ozone depletion. After graduation,
Mr. Shehabi worked as a financial analyst on mergers
and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions
for Salomon Brothers Inc, focusing on a wide range
of industries, including waste management and
pollution control technology. After four years
on Wall Street, he attended law school at
the University of California, Hastings College
of the Law (JD '94). Thereafter, he completed
a one year clerkship at the Department of Justice
in San Francisco before becoming an associate
at the LA firm Christensen, White, Miller, Fink,
Jacobs, Glaser & Shapiro, where he split his
time litigating anti-trust and environmental cases
and doing transactional work for his own entertainment
and real estate clients. Three years later, he
was recruited by DOJ to leave private practice
for his job in D.C.
In January 2000, Mr. Shehabi was nominated to
the Council on Foreign Relations and is currently
an active Member in a variety of policy areas
including, global environmental security, energy
policy, genetically modified foods, immigration
and civil liberties issues, and U.S. Iran Policy.
Mr. Shehabi Has worked on two Presidential campaigns,
and speaks Persian and French.