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Alex Kiles

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Counsel on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis in its first year, by way of Covington and House Oversight, now Lead Counsel for Policy at Airbnb.

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Identity & role

Keith Alexander Kiles, who goes by Alex and appears in official House materials as K. Alex Kiles. Washington, D.C. He served as Counsel on the majority staff of the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis (named in its June 10, 2020 staff announcement), the Clyburn-led panel later responsible for the December 1, 2022 staff report "We Are Not the Fraud Police": How Fintechs Facilitated Fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program. He is now Lead Counsel, Policy at Airbnb.

Career arc

Kiles holds a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School (2014). He was a litigation associate at Covington & Burling LLP (white-collar investigations and international arbitration), with two federal district-court clerkships in between — for Judge Emmet G. Sullivan and Judge Gladys Kessler (Ret.) of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. In 2019 he joined the House Committee on Oversight and Reform as Counsel, where, per Clyburn's June 10, 2020 staff announcement, his investigative work concerned "financial conflicts of interest, federal procurements, and alleged misconduct." From Oversight he moved to the Select Subcommittee at its 2020 founding.

Per an on-record interview and corroborating records, Kiles moved to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation as counsel and policy advisor around 2021 — roughly a year before the December 2022 fintech report was published — and then to Airbnb.

Pandemic relief oversight role

Kiles was Counsel on the Subcommittee in its first year. His documented investigative focus on the panel and at House Oversight was conflicts of interest, procurement, and misconduct — not PPP/fintech specifically. His name does not appear in the December 2022 fintech-fraud report or its press materials.

Lobbying & industry ties

None located. No Senate LDA or House lobbying registration surfaced under "Kiles" tied to this individual. His current Airbnb role is described as policy counsel/advocacy rather than registered federal lobbying.

Where they are now (2025–2026)

Kiles joined Airbnb as Policy Senior Counsel in 2022 and was promoted to Lead Counsel, Policy as of March 2025.

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Original source documents and archived captures

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