Mark Campbell (political consultant)

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Mark Campbell is a Republican political strategist and former college administrator from Camden, New Jersey. He earned a BA from the University of Tennessee, an MPA from Southern Methodist University, and an Ed.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is married to Kathy Campbell.

Early in his career, Campbell served as Pennsylvania’s Deputy Commerce Secretary and Director of Small Business (1986–1987). He then became a key player in New Jersey’s 1991 GOP legislative victories. In 1992 he was the general consultant for Bret Schundler’s first mayoral campaign in Jersey City, and he was profiled in Campaigns & Elections in 1993. Campbell has worked on campaigns for George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, the Republican National Committee, and the National Republican Congressional Committee. He also hired Michael DuHaime for his first job after college.

From 2000 to 2005 he was Senior Vice President for Strategic, International and Government Affairs and Executive Associate Dean of Petrocelli College of Continuing Studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University, with campuses in New Jersey, Wroxton (England), and Vancouver (Canada). He helped resolve immigration issues for students and faculty and helped secure Congressional earmarks. He co-founded the university’s PublicMind polling project in 2000–2001, but stepped back from operating it to shield it from partisan concerns; the poll later gained national prominence.

Campbell returned to consulting in 2005, serving corporate, university, and national trade association clients. He was National Political Director for Rudy Giuliani’s 2007–2008 presidential campaign and later served as top adviser to Congressman Jim Gerlach (PA) in several tough re-election campaigns. In 2010 he became Vice President of Learning Counts for CAEL, a national nonprofit that helps working adults with education strategies.

He left CAEL in 2012 to launch Intellz Inc. and was chosen as executive director and spokesperson for the Committee for Legislative Reform and Term Limits, which collected nearly 600,000 signatures. Among other clients, he worked for Bergen County Executive Kathy Donovan, who ran for re-election in 2014.

In 2015 Campbell was political director for Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign, praised for its organization and ability to attract swing voters in states like New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Washington Post analyst Chris Cillizza called Cruz for President “the best campaign” among that year’s candidates. In 2021 he became campaign manager for Glenn Youngkin’s gubernatorial bid in Virginia.