Mark Donig serves as Head of U.S. for Blue Laurel Advisors, a business consulting firm that advises leading public and private entities seeking to do business across an increasingly integrated Middle East. This follows close to a decade as an international corporate lawyer in Silicon Valley, New York, and Washington, D.C.
In his active pro bono practice, Mark served on or led numerous pro bono humanitarian efforts defending dissidents, hostages, and activists around the world. Today, Mark also serves as Of Counsel at Grossman Young & Hammond, a leading immigration law firm, advising both their business immigration and their international protection practice. Mark is also a Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council.
Mark is the co-founder of the African Middle Eastern Leadership Project, a human rights nonprofit focused on defending and elevating the voices of millennial leaders from the Middle East and Africa. Mark is a two-time recipient (2017 and 2019) of the Certificate of Special Recognition from The Speaker of the US House of Representatives in honor of his humanitarian work.
