Robert Stryk

Lobbyist Robert Stryk represents international figures with sensitive legal or diplomatic issues. He has a history of taking on clients with unsavory reputations. Mr. Stryk, who is well connected in Trump administration foreign policy circles, owns a company called Sonoran Policy Group, which casts itself as “global private diplomacy” firm. He has developed a reputation in recent years for taking on clients other Washington lobbyists and consultants shy away from. This year alone, his firm has signed contracts to represent a jailed Saudi prince who had fallen out of favor with his country’s powerful de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as well as the administration of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, which the Trump administration considers illegitimate. Mr. Stryk represents Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola’s former president who is accused of embezzling millions of dollars from a state oil company she once headed. And he had represented the government of the former Congolese president Joseph Kabila, which had faced American sanctions for human rights abuses and corruption. Stryk resides in Washington DC bur also owns Pyrenees Vineyard & Cellars, south of Roseburg, Oregon. Stryk recently held his annual fundraiser for the NRA at Pyrenees, his vineyard in the Umpqua Valley. Stryk attributes his rugged political style to his Arizona upbringing. Prior to starting his SPG advisory, he worked in the U.S. Congress. He shuns traditional D.C. garb and instead wears v-neck t-shirts, jackets, jeans and cowboy boots.