 McDowell issued a separate statement expressing his concern that the report did not go far enough to propose presumption against governmental and intergovernmental encroachment on the successful non-governmental private sector, non-profit multistakeholder model of Internet governance.Between 2014 and 2016 he was a partner at Wiley Rein LLP.He is the son of the late Hobart K. McDowell Jr., a former senior editor of "National Geographic Magazine," and the late Martha Louise Shea McDowell, a former journalist and public relations executive.