Shahira Knight is the Managing Principal in the Policy & Government Relations (PGR) group of Deloitte LLP. She joined Deloitte in June 2019.
Shahira has nearly 25 years of experience in government, public policy, and government affairs. Prior to joining Deloitte, she held several senior leadership roles in government, including Director of White House Legislative Affairs, where she served as the liaison between the White House and Congress, and Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council (NEC), where she helped coordinate the administration's domestic economic policy agenda, including for tax, health care, and financial services. Shahira also served as Senior Policy Advisor on the Ways and Means Committee in the US House of Representatives where she was responsible for leading the committee’s policy and legislative operations.
During her time in the private sector, Shahira worked in the Public Affairs and Policy Group at Fidelity Investments and the policy and government relations group of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA).
Shahira served on the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and was a Pritzker fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
She received her B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia and her M.A. in Economics from George Mason University.
