Alex N. Wong

Associate

awong@cov.com
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Covington & Burling LLP
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004-2401
Tel: 202.662.5748
Fax: 202.778.5748


 

Practices

Education

  • Harvard Law School, J.D.
    • cum laude
    • Harvard Law Review, Managing Editor
    • Jay Fellow
  • University of Pennsylvania, B.A.
    • summa cum laude
    • Berger Scholar

Judicial Clerkship

  • Hon. Janice Rogers Brown, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit

Bar Admissions

  • District of Columbia


Alex Wong is an associate in the firm’s Washington office.  He provides clients strategic and legal advice on international trade matters, congressional and executive-branch investigations, and compliance with federal and state election laws and regulations.

Before his current time with the firm, Mr. Wong was the Foreign & Legal Policy Director for the Romney-Ryan presidential campaign.  In that role, he was responsible for developing the campaign’s foreign, defense, homeland security, judicial, and law enforcement policies and closely advising the candidates on these matters.

Mr. Wong also served as Rule of Law Advisor for the U.S. Department of State, designing and managing the Department’s efforts to bolster Iraq’s judicial branch and anticorruption agencies.

Mr. Wong clerked for the honorable Janice Rogers Brown of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  He received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School where he was the Managing Editor of the Harvard Law Review and an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal.

Previous Experience

  • Romney-Ryan 2012, Foreign & Legal Policy Director (2011-2012)
  • U.S. Department of State, Rule of Law Advisor (2007-2009)
  • U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser (2006)
  • U.S. Department of State, U.S. Mission to the United Nations (2005)

Pro Bono

  • Advised non-governmental organization on land reform issues stemming from the political power-sharing agreement in Zimbabwe.

Publications and Speeches

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