Priya Dayananda

Ms. Priya Dayananda has been the Executive Director of Federal Government Affairs since May 2014. Priya joined KPMG in 2006 as the Director of Federal Government Affairs. The Office of Government Affairs is responsible for representing KPMG’s interests in all matters of public policy before the Federal and state governments and for assisting non-U.S. practices in achieving their government affairs goals. Ms. Dayananda advances the U.S. firm’s public policy agenda by communicating the firm’s priorities and positions to the Administration, Members of Congress, and Regulators.

Professional and Industry Experience

• Ms. Dayananda lobbies the Administration, and Democrats and Republicans in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate
• Ms. Dayananda provides strategic counsel to KPMG clients on various public policy initiatives
• Ms. Dayananda supports KPMG’s financial services practice regarding regulatory and legislative initiatives
• Over the course of 20 years, Ms. Dayananda has worked on Capitol Hill as a Senior Advisor to Members of Congress on the House Financial Services Committee and as a registered financial services lobbyist for 16 years
• Ms. Dayananda was named by The Roll Call and The Hill as one of the United States’ “Top 25 Corporate Lobbyists”. In addition, she was named by The Politico as one of the “Top 50 Politicos” in the United States
• Ms. Dayananda’s experience as a lobbyist includes being Director of Government Relations for the American Bankers Association (formerly America’s Community Bankers), the national trade association representing financial institutions, and as assistant director of government relations for the National Association of Minority Contractors, the national trade association for minority-owned and women-owned construction
• Prior to joining KPMG, Ms. Dayananda served as a senior adviser to two members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Financial Services, U.S. Representatives Steve Israel (NY) and Greg Meeks(NY); and as a senior adviser to U.S. Representative E.B. Johnson (TX)