Gus F. Khouri joined the Shaw / Yoder / Antwih, Inc., team as a lobbyist in 2006. Prior to joining the firm, he served in the Legislature for over eight years, most recently as a Senior Consultant to the Assembly Transportation Committee. His primary responsibilities on the Committee were: preparing analyses and providing research on complex legislation in the transportation policy field, including briefing the Committee Chair, Committee Member staff, and Speaker's staff, as well as providing vote recommendations; acting as liaison with various state agencies, such as the California Transportation Commission, the Department of Transportation (Caltrans), the California Highway Patrol, Department of Motor Vehicles, and legislative staff, to craft, amend or monitor legislation as it moved through the process; organizing informational hearings on various transportation issues; and, staffing Assembly Member Jenny Oropeza on the Appropriations Committee, as well as on issues regarding revenue and taxation, labor, and information technology.

Mr. Khouri organized informational hearings and was the Assembly Transportation Committee’s point person on negotiations with respect to the 2006 Transportation Infrastructure Bond package (Propositions 1A and 1B). In addition, Mr. Khouri assisted in crafting language for the completion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge re-financing deal.

Before that, Mr. Khouri was a Senior Consultant to Assembly Member Rebecca Cohn for three years and a Legislative Assistant to Assembly Member George Nakano for two years; in both offices he advised the Members on transportation issues. He has also worked on several campaigns for legislative office.

Mr. Khouri holds a Master of Arts degree in Government, from the California State University at Sacramento, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, from University of the Pacific.