Christopher John Dodd is the current special presidential advisor for the Americas. He served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011. Dodd is the longest-serving senator in Connecticut’s history. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981.
During his tenure in the US Senate, Dodd served as chair of the Senate Banking Committee; chair of the Senate Rules Committee; acting chair of the Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee; and as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he chaired the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere for many years.
Over his three and a half decades in Congress, Dodd was an active legislator, authoring and/or co-authoring several landmark laws, including the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Affordable Care Act, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Child Care Development Block Grant, and the Help America Vote Act.
He joined the Peace Corps after graduating from Providence College in Rhode Island in 1966 and spent two years working in the Dominican Republic. He served in the US Army, first in the National Guard and later in the reserves, from 1969 to 1975. In 1972, Dodd received a law degree from the University of Louisville in Kentucky.
Dodd was an event speaker at the Dialogue.
