Ryan P. McCormick is Senior Vice President and Counsel at The Real Estate Roundtable in Washington, DC, where he is responsible for managing the organization’s tax policy activities. He coordinates the Roundtable’s Tax Policy Advisory Committee — a group of 150 leading real estate tax experts including in-house tax directors, general counsel, CFOs of major real estate companies, and senior partners from national law and accounting firms — and created and directs the Real Estate Research Consortium, which commissions and supports academic and economic research on real estate taxation. Ryan joined the Roundtable in May 2013 following nearly 11 years in the U.S. Senate as a tax and economic policy advisor to Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan, John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, Bob Graham, and Bill Nelson. In the 112th Congress, he served as Staff Director of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth. Prior to the Senate, he practiced tax law at Miller & Chevalier Chartered and was editor-in-chief of the University of Texas International Law Journal. He was a Fulbright Scholar. He holds a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law and previously served as a tax associate at Miller & Chevalier.