John Hawkins

John Hawkins

President & CEO

John has been involved in the Greater Philadelphia public policy arena for twenty-five years. Prior to launching PSG in January 2019, he was Vice President for City Relations at Wojdak Government Relations, one of Pennsylvania’s premier lobbying firms. John oversaw all issues in Philadelphia’s City Hall and successfully represented large corporations, developers, regional associations, universities, and non-profits for fourteen years.

Before Wojdak, John served as a legislative assistant and drafted and analyzed municipal and state legislation over six years for then-Councilman Jim Kenney and the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Appropriations Committee. In the 1990s, John worked on various city and state political campaigns, as well as three years as the Research Director for the Committee of Seventy, Philadelphia’s “government watchdog” organization.

John holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania, where for thirteen years he was an instructor on urban politics and municipal government at Penn’s Fels Institute of Government. He lives in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia, where he serves on the board of the East Falls Development Corporation. He swears he is much better at lobbying than he is at dyeing his youngest daughter’s hair (although he is getting pretty good at that too).