Peter Allen Peyser is a United States public affairs consultant. He is a former member of the administration of New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch, former Chief of Staff to Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-NY) and former staffer to Reps. James J. Delaney (D-NY) and Peter H. Kostmayer (D-PA). In 2012, he founded Peyser Associates LLC, a public affairs and strategic business consulting firm with offices in New York City and Washington, DC. From 2005-2012 he was a Principal at Blank Rome Government Relations LLC, a subsidiary of the law firm Blank Rome LLP. He was Managing Principal of the firm from 2006-2012. Prior to joining Blank Rome, Mr. Peyser was president of Peyser Associates, Inc., a Washington, DC based public affairs firm from 1982-2005.
Mr. Peyser's consulting practice has focused on the representation of state and local government entities in their dealings with the federal government. Among the elected officials he has represented are Governor and Mayor Ed Rendell (Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, respectively); Governors Bill Richardson (New Mexico), Tim Kaine (Virginia), and Evan Bayh (Indiana); Mayors Norman B. Rice, Paul Schell and Greg Nickels (Seattle), and Mayors Bill Green and Wilson Goode (Philadelphia). He has represented the public transportation authorities in the metro areas of New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland (OR), and San Diego.
Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Peyser was Assistant Director of the City of New York Washington Office under Mayor Edward I. Koch. In that position, he represented the City's interests on transportation, housing and economic development matters. Prior to that he served as the first Chief of Staff to Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro and as Legislative Assistant to Representatives James J. Delaney (D-NY) and Peter H. Kostmayer (D-PA).
Mr. Peyser and Ms. Ferraro were reunited professionally when she joined Blank Rome in 2006.
Mr. Peyser was born on January 14, 1954. His father, Peter A. Peyser (1921–2014), served as a Member of Congress from New York from 1971-1977 as a Republican and from 1979-1983 as a Democrat. His mother; the former Marguerite Richards of Monroe, LA.; was born in 1930. He has four siblings, Penny Peyser, James Peyser, Safi Abheeti (born Carolyn Peyser) and Thomas Peyser. He is married to Lisa Jared Daniels. He has one daughter, Kimberly A. Peyser of Washington, DC.
Mr. Peyser holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College (1976) and a Master of Arts degree from The George Washington University (1982)