Kate Mereen serves as Vice President of Government Affairs for Washington Resource Associates and is Executive Director of the Digital Dialogue Forum. Her area of expertise and primary focus in the firm is technology policy. Over the past decade with the company, Mereen has managed the firm’s growth in this space and led a variety of government affairs initiatives for its clients.

Since 2011, Mereen has served as Executive Director of the Digital Dialogue Forum (DDF), a non-partisan public policy coalition comprised of world-leading technology companies. Founded in 1998, DDF’s mission is to enhance innovation and global competitiveness through high level dialogue between business and government leaders.

Mereen has worked with DDF’s impressive list of world-leading member companies to grow a dynamic, interactive platform for collaboration between policy experts in the technology industry and congressional and government leaders. Mereen has moderated policy discussions on leading technology, security, and innovation-related issues; helped socialize emerging policy matters; highlighted promising policy ideas and initiatives; and fostered greater overall collaboration between tech industry partners and leaders in government.

Mereen is actively involved in several organizations committed to fostering innovation. She was instrumental in founding the Center for Public Policy Innovation (CPPI), a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit educational think tank whose mission is to assist government officials in addressing the many challenging issues brought on by the rapid advancement of information technology. A longstanding member of the Women in Government Relations (WGR) professional networking association, Mereen was one of the founding co-chairs of its Telecommunications and Technology working group. She is also active in the Northern Virginia Technology Council, a trade association for the region’s technology community.

Mereen previously worked in state government as the legislative director for an active member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives. She began her career in the U.S. House of Representatives for the then-Select House Committee on Homeland Security.

Mereen is a graduate of Gettysburg College, where she received a B.A. in Political Science. She resides in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband, young son, and Plato, the family dog.