Andrew Koneschusky

About Andrew Koneschusky

I'm a crisis communications and public affairs strategist, a Capitol Hill veteran and a Democratic political analyst. I run Beltway Advisors, a high-stakes communications firm in Washington, DC. My clients include corporations, industry associations, law firms and high-profile individuals who need more than messaging and media relations. They need someone who understands how policy gets made, how reputations get built and destroyed, how smart communication supports business objectives and how organizations of all shapes and sizes navigate an increasingly complex world. Much of my work lives at the frontier of technology, policy and public perception. I spent nearly a decade advising the commercial drone industry as it fought to shape the first federal regulatory framework for unmanned aviation in the United States. In 2018, I founded the AI Impact Group within Omnicom, the world's largest communications holding company, drawing on talent across the network to help companies navigate the introduction of artificial intelligence well before the advent of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the rest. My crisis practice is rooted in traditional communications principles — precision messaging and surgical execution — coupled with a keen awareness of and hard-won experience in modern threats. Crises today are as likely to involve weaponized misinformation, coordinated disinformation campaigns, deepfakes or social media meltdowns as they are a bad print headline. Practitioners who don't understand that distinction are fighting cyber warfare with a bayonet. As one example, I helped a global media network counter a multimillion-dollar disinformation campaign orchestrated by regional rivals. I started my career in Democratic politics, advising a presidential campaign, running a state party during Hurricane Katrina and serving in roles on Capitol Hill, including for Senate Democratic leadership. Today I'm a regular political commentator quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Axios, The Hill, Newsweek, CBS, the BBC and many more. The conversations I find most interesting include the public perception and policy challenges facing emerging technologies; how organizations navigate a complex, adversarial information ecosystem where the threats are constantly evolving; the interplay of politics and business and how the culture wars have bled into corporate America, creating genuine strategic challenges for executives; the internal dynamics and evolving coalitions shaping politics at the congressional, gubernatorial and presidential levels; AI's sweeping impact on labor, culture, society and the economy; and dissecting real crises to understand what worked, what didn't and why. This list is nowhere near exhaustive.