Gregory Walden is a Partner at DGA Group and is based in Washington, D.C. He is widely known as a leading aviation and transportation law and policy expert who also specializes in technology law, regulation and policy.  

Mr. Walden served in several senior positions at the U.S. Department of Justice before serving as Chief Counsel of the Federal Aviation Administration in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administrations. He also served as Associate Counsel to President Bush and was appointed by the President to serve as a Commissioner on the Interstate Commerce Commission. Mr. Walden has taught Aviation Law at George Mason Law School since 1998 and a course in Automated Vehicles Law since 2019. He has practiced aviation law and policy for 30 years. He has represented clients in nearly all parts of the aviation and surface transportation industries before the U.S. Congress and Executive Branch departments and agencies.

Mr. Walden received a B.A., cum laude, from Washington & Lee University in 1977 and a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1980. He is the author of On Best Behavior: the Clinton Administration and Ethics in Government (Hudson Institute, 1996); co-author of Aviation Law: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press, 2006); and contributor to Eyes to the Sky: Privacy and Commerce in the Age of the Drone (Cato Institute, 2021).