Michael A. DiConti
Chief Operating Officer
Michael A. DiConti
Mike DiConti joined the Bipartisan Policy Center in 2006. He is Chief Operating Officer of the organization and also provides support for its Economic Policy Project. From 1990 to 2005, Mike was Director of Operations and Legislation for the Business Roundtable in Washington, D.C., where he led the financial and operations functions for the organization and also served from 2003-2005 as its legislative director of federal and state tax policy. Mike currently serves on Fairfax County’s Information Technology Policy Advisory Committee, which operates as the board of directors for the County’s Chief Information Officer. Mike received a Ph.D. in political science from The Johns Hopkins University in 1990 and during his dissertation was a Fellow with the Institute for the Study of World Politics, in Washington, D.C. Mike received an M.B.A. in finance/accounting from UCLA's Anderson School of Management in 1983 and subsequently joined Ernst & Young, LLC in Los Angeles as a tax advisor, where he worked through 1985. In 1980, Mike was graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. in Psychology from Occidental College in Los Angeles and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is author of the book, Entrepreneurship in Training: The Multinational Corporation in Mexico and Canada (University of South Carolina Press: 1992). Mike has three sons, Nolan, Aidan, and Jason and lives in Fairfax, Virginia.
