SIA STAFF : Patrick Wilson

Patrick Wilson serves as the Washington, DC based director of Government Affairs for the Semiconductor Industry Association.  Wilson joined the staff of SIA in 2006.  In this capacity, he represents the industry before the Congress and the Administration on all aspects of domestic policy.  Currently, these issues include: championing basic research, education reforms to increase math and science education at the K-12 level, immigration reform that would permit highly educated foreign students who attend American universities to obtain visas or green cards to work in the US, tax reform to attract high tech investment/new facilities and a regulatory environment that fosters innovation and advancement.

Before joining SIA, Wilson served as Director of Coalitions and Senior Counsel for the Committee on Small Business in the House of Representatives where he worked on technology policy, immigration, international tax reform and trade.   In addition, he formerly served as Counsel for Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas and Legislative Director for Representative Mike Pence of Indiana.  In the last capacity he also served as President of the House Legislative Directors Association.  While in Congress, he traveled to 36 countries, including 7 trips to China and 11 to other Asian nations.  He was named an official member of Interparliamentary exchanges to Germany, Indonesia, China, Taiwan and Australia.

Prior to these stints on the Hill, Wilson worked  for two years as Director of Government Affairs for the Associated General Contractors of America, as a public policy research assistant at a prominent Think Tank in Washington and  as an Associate for Friedlob Sanderson Raskin LLP in Denver, Colorado.

Wilson attended the University of Denver School of International Studies and at the University of Denver-College of Law.  His undergraduate degree program allowed him to spend one term at Oxford University in the UK (Transatlantic Relations and Security) and one term interning at the British House of Commons.  In high school he spent a term living in Higashimurayama, Japan.

A native of Independence, Missouri, Wilson currently resides in Arlington, VA and is an artillery officer candidate in the Virginia Army National Guard.