Douglas Farrar is the founder of Maywood Strategies and provides expert advice to clients seeking to influence policy and shape opinion.

Douglas Farrar is a skilled public affairs and communications professional with two decades of experience across government, the nonprofit sector, the private sector, and Capitol Hill.

He founded Maywood Strategies after serving as Director of the Office of Public Affairs at the Federal Trade Commission, where he was the agency’s lead spokesman and senior advisor to Chair Lina Khan. Earlier, he was Vice President of Communications and Strategy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, overseeing a global communications team spanning the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Douglas has appeared on CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg TV, and several other legacy and new media outlets. He has been quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Axios, POLITICO, and numerous other newspapers, digital publications, substacks, and other written media.

Douglas has also held leadership roles at the Aspen Institute and in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he advised a senior member of the Appropriations Committee. He is the co-author of A Song to My City: Washington, DC, and earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Georgetown University.