Brent Lowder -  Staff and Faculty at the Leadership Institute

Brent Lowder has over 26 years of experience working in the national and California political arenas. During this time, he has served in senior positions on dozens of national and state political campaigns, led the largest state Republican Party in the country, and run some of the most successful conservative national PACs and issue advocacy groups.  Brent also has an impressive track record in the financial and corporate sectors.

 From 2016 to 2020, Brent served as Executive Director of Great America PAC and Great America Alliance.  Under his leadership, the organizations raised and spent over $50 million combined and were two of the most influential conservative organizations of the period.

Brent also served as the Executive Director of the California Republican Party from 2009-2013.  During his tenure the party took in over $37 million and he oversaw one of the most extensive voter contact programs in its history.

Over the past three decades, Brent has served in senior positions in several Presidential, U.S. Senate, and Gubernatorial campaigns.  During this period, he worked as an investment banker in the New York and San Francisco offices of Morgan Stanley, helping to manage over $3 billion of municipal bond financings.  Most recently, Brent served for 3-year as CEO of One Team Youth, which became one of the fastest-growing youth sports companies in North America during his term.

Brent now serves as California Director for the Leadership Institute and serves as a faculty member for the International Division. He has lectured and trained government and political leaders on five different continents since 2018.

Brent was born and raised in California, graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, and now lives with his wife and their two children in northern California.

Brent Lowder