Nicholas E. Calio is Citigroup’s Senior Vice President for Global Government Affairs. He is responsible for the company’s government affairs at all levels in the United States and in all other countries in which Citigroup does business. Mr. Calio is a member of Citigroup’s Operating Committee and Management Committee.

Before joining Citi, Mr. Calio served President George W. Bush as Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs from January 2001 to January 2003. As the President’s principal liaison to Congress, Mr. Calio worked closely with the leadership and members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives and had the primary responsibility for formulating and implementing White House strategy on all legislative issues. He held the same position during the Administration of President George H.W. Bush.

The New York Times described him as a “forceful broker ... not only between the White House and Congress, but also among Cabinet officials...” and “credit[ed] him with a major role in the biggest White House legislative victories on Capitol Hill, among them the creation of the Homeland Security Department, an education bill and a major tax cut.” Congressional Quarterly reported that “lawmakers of both parties also say Calio’s forceful approach ...helped Bush put together a string of triumphs on Capitol Hill,” while Roll Call stated that “...he has a reputation as a prodigious lobbyist and one of Capitol Hill’s best vote counters.”

Prior to joining the current Bush Administration, Mr. Calio was a partner at O’Brien Calio, a law and lobbying firm he co-founded in 1993. A 1998 Fortune magazine survey of Members of Congress, Congressional staff, Administration staff, and Washington lobbyists rated the firm as one of “the ten most powerful” in Washington. Mr. Calio started the firm after leaving the first Bush Administration.

Mr. Calio is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He has been active in the last six presidential campaigns and in Republican Party politics in general. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Board of Directors of the Bryce Harlow Foundation. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland with his wife, Lydia, and has three children, Lydia, Nicholas, and Jessica.