Chris Oatway is Associate General Counsel at Verizon with responsibility for cybersecurity policy and certain consumer protection issues. Prior to Verizon, Chris was an antitrust litigator at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC, and his early career he included stints at major law firms in Brussels and Mexico City. Before attending law school he worked as an economic consultant, providing antitrust analysis for to risk arbitrage hedge funds.

Chris received his law degree, magna cum laude, from Georgetown, where he also earned a Master of Science in Foreign Service. He studied undergraduate economics and Spanish at the University of Massachusetts.