Mark Lange is a columnist and business consultant
A frequent contributor to the opinion pages of the Christian Science Monitor, he has also written commentary on immigration and workforce policy for the New York Times, and on national politics, Iraq policy, clean tech subsidies and job creation for the San Francisco Chronicle.

 
Mr. Lange graduated from Dartmouth in 1984, a double-major in English and philosophy whose thesis, The Metaphysics of Seduction, won the Feinstein Prize.  He then served as policy analyst and chief speechwriter to two U.S. Secretaries of Labor. In 1988 he was appointed to the White House as a speechwriter to former President George H.W. Bush, serving until mid-1991.  
 
He drafted major Presidential addresses on NATO’s role in post-Cold War Europe, strategic arms reductions, trade, debt relief, and environmental, energy and economic policy. During the Persian Gulf crisis he wrote the first oval office address to the nation. He also wrote the President’s 1991 State of the Union address.

 
After leaving Washington, Mr. Lange earned an MBA from Stanford, worked as a financial analyst at Paramount, directed $445 million in acquisitions for K-III, a private equity fund, and served in executive leadership roles for two early stage software ventures as well as large enterprise software providers PeopleSoft and SAP.

 
In 2007, Mr. Lange returned to writing. He plans to continue analyzing social and economic policy, working toward writing a regular column.  His aim is to surface policy options that motivate productive dialog and positive societal change.  

He lives near San Francisco with his wife Laura and three children.  (return to home page)