Carlos Iturregui

Senior Vice President

As senior vice president at O’Neill and Associates, Carlos Iturregui draws upon extensive expertise with more than 20 years in leading positions in both state and federal government and in the private sector working with the executive branch and the United States Congress on environmental, homeland security, immigration, and infrastructure matters.

Before joining O’Neill and Associates in 2009, Carlos spent five years as the first Chief to the new legally-mandated Office for Policy and Strategy for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, a component of the Department of Homeland Security. There, he was responsible for making policy recommendations, performing policy research and evaluation on all national immigration services issues, and developing and coordinating the agency’s Strategic Plan. In addition, he was responsible for the development and coordination for all regulations on behalf of the largest immigration services agency in the world. Carlos was the lead representative for several major issues with the Department: the Homeland Security Advisory Council, immigration reform, trafficking, and radicalization.

A frequent public speaker, Carlos has presented at both domestic and international fora on immigration and national security issues. He also welcomed thousands of new U.S. Citizens across the country by administering the Oath of Allegiance and as an invited keynote speaker at both administrative and judicial naturalization ceremonies.

His prior public sector experience includes serving as Commissioner for the Virginia Commission on National and Community Service appointed by Senator and former Governor Mark Warner, and serving as Administrative Judge for the District of Columbia government. As Assistant Director at the Government of Puerto Rico’s main office in the continental U.S., he was responsible for infrastructure, environment, justice, and insular affairs. He oversaw federal funding procurement for the island’s heavy rail mass transit system Tren Urbano, the largest infrastructure project in the Commonwealth’s history.

Carlos’ private sector experience includes senior positions with DC government relations firms, including O’Neill and Associates under its prior ownership. In these roles, Carlos represented private corporate clients’ business interests before federal and state governments and Congress. His lobbying strategies for clients in both the private and state government sectors developed new business worldwide through joint ventures and partnerships.

Carlos received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his law degree from the Inter American School of Law in Puerto Rico. He also pursued graduate law studies in Immigration and International Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and Land Use Planning at Harvard Law School. Carlos is a member of the U.S. Court of International Trade, alumni of the American Council of Young Political Leaders and the U.S.-Spain Council.