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Mr. Bateman is the President of the Klein & Saks Group, a Washington, DC-based public affairs firm, that advises companies, industry organizations and coalitions, principally in the mining and metals industries, on the political, regulatory and public policy environment. He joined the firm in 1994, and has been its chief executive since 1998. Since March 2004, Mr. Bateman also has been President of the Economic Club of New York, the nation’s leading nonpartisan policy forum. In 2005, Mr. Bateman was elected Chairman and chief executive of the International Cyanide Management Institute, which administers a voluntary industry program aimed at improving the management of cyanide used in gold mining and assisting in the protection of human health and the reduction of environmental impacts. Mr. Bateman’s knowledge of the precious metals industry is extensive, having earlier served as Executive Director of the Silver Institute, an international association serving the silver industry, and President of the Gold Institute, a North American industry group. Mr. Bateman began his career in San Clemente, California in the late 1970s, as an aide to then former President Richard Nixon. In 1981, he joined the White House staff under President Reagan, and subsequently served in that Administration in a senior position at the Department of Commerce and as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. From 1989 to 1993, he served on President George H.W. Bush’s White House staff as Deputy Assistant to the President for Management.
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