Todd Deatherage

Todd Deatherage is the Executive Director & Co-founder of the Telos Group. Prior to joining the Telos Group, Todd spent 16 years in senior positions in the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government. From 2005 to 2009, Todd was Chief of Staff in the Secretary of State's Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department, where he covered Israeli-Palestinian issues. He also spent two years as Senior Advisor in the Department's Office of International Religious Freedom, where he specialized in religious freedom in the Middle East. Todd spent a decade working in the U.S. Congress, including six years as Chief of Staff to Senator Tim Hutchinson. He is a native Arkansan and a graduate of the University of Arkansas. He began his career as an educator. He and his wife Judith have four children—Abigail, Zachary, William, and Anna—and live in Fairfax County, Virginia.