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J. Christopher Mihm, Chair of the Board

Managing Director, Strategic Issues, U.S. Government Accountability Office. Former positions with U.S. General Accounting Office: Director, Strategic Issues; Assistant Director, Federal Management Issues; Evaluator.

Michael C. Rogers, Vice Chair of the Board

Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, DC Healthcare System, Inc. Former Executive Vice President, Corporate Services, MedStar Health; Executive Director, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; City Administrator/Deputy Mayor for Operations, Government of the District of Columbia; Director, Minority Business Development Agency, U.S. Department of Commerce; Director, Mayor's Office of Contracts and City Chief Procurement Officer, City of New York; Vice President, Municipal Services, and Executive Director, Jacob Javits Convention Center of New York, Ogden Services Corporation; Deputy General Manager, Washington, D.C. Convention Center; Staff Associate, Temporary Commission on Financial Oversight of the District of Columbia; Assistant to Executive Director/Director, Minority Executive Placement Program, International City Management Association.

Diane M Disney, Secretary

Chancellor, School of Graduate Professional Studies, Pennsylvania State Great Valley. Former Dean and Professor of Management, Commonwealth College, Pennsylvania State University; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Civilian Personnel Policy), U.S. Department of Defense. Former positions with the University of Rhode Island: Management Faculty to Associate Professor; Director, Research Center in Business Economics; Principal Investigator, Rhode Island 2000 Labor Market Research Projects. Former Adjunct Faculty and Manager, Ford Foundation Project on Employer Benefits and the Future of the Social Protection Program, Heller School, Brandeis University; Rhode Island Research Associate, The Urban Institute.

John J, Callahan, Treasurer

Director, Health Systems Management Programs, Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts, University of Baltimore. Former Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget and Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Acting Commissioner, Social Security Administration. Former positions with the U.S. Senate: Chief of Staff to Senator Jim Sasser; Deputy Staff Director, Senate Budget Committee, U.S. Senate; Staff Director, Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Federalism, and the District of Columbia, U.S. Senate; Staff Director, Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, U.S. Senate; Director of Federal-State Relations; Executive Director, Legislators' Education Action Project.

Board of Directors

Kenneth S. Apfel--Professor of Practice and Director,The Management, Finance and Leadership Program, University of Maryland. Former Sid Richardson Chair in Public Affairs, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas; Commissioner, Social Security Administration; Associate Director for Human Resources, U.S. Office of Management and Budget; Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Legislative Director and Legislative Assistant, Senator Bill Bradley; Budget Analyst, Senate Budget Committee.

Donald J. Borut--Executive Director, National League of Cities. Former Associate Director and Deputy Executive Director, International City/County Management Association. Former Positions with City of Ann Arbor, Michigan: Assistant to City Administrator; Assistant City Administrator.

John J. Callahan--Director, Health Systems Management Programs, Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts, University of Baltimore. Former Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget, and Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Acting Commissioner, U.S. Social Security Administration. Former positions with the U.S. Senate: Chief of Staff to Senator Jim Sasser; Deputy Staff Director, Senate Budget Committee; Staff Director, Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Federalism, and the District of Columbia; Staff Director, Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations; Director of Federal-State Relations; Executive Director, Legislators' Education Action Project.

Gail C. Christopher--Vice President of Health, W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Former Vice President, Office of Health, Women and Families, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies; Guest Scholar, The Brookings Institution; Executive Director, Institute for Government Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Advisory Board, Alliance for Redesigning Government, National Academy of Public Administration; National Director and Creator, Americans All: K-12 National Multicultural Educators Training Program; Associate for Development and Program Design, Information and Services Clearinghouse, School of Divinity, Howard University; National Director and Principal Architect, National Reclaim Our Youth Violence Prevention Program; Executive Director, Family Resource Coalition of America; Member, Vice-President's Advisory Commission on Customer Service..

Timothy B. Clark--Editor in Chief, Government Executive Magazine. Former Editor and President, Government Executive; Staff Correspondent, National Journal; Editor and Publisher, Empire State Report; Associate Editor, National Journal; Writer and Editor, Congressional Quarterly.

H. George Frederickson--Distinguished Professor, Department of Public Administration, University of Kansas, Lawrence; President Emeritus, Eastern Washington University. Former John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government, Oxford University; Dean, College of Public and Community Service, University of Missouri, Columbia; Associate Dean for Policy and Administrative Studies, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University.

Norman J. Johnson--Former Professor/Director, School of Business and Industry, Florida A&M University; President and Elected Member, Atlanta School Board; Special Assistant to the Provost, Georgia Institute of Technology; Associate Vice President for Academic Human Resource Development, and Professor of Organizational Effectiveness, Carnegie Mellon University; Associate Dean, Professor of Social Policy, and Chair, M.S. Program, School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon.

Janice Lachance--Chief Executive Officer, Special Libraries Association. Former Management Consultant, Analytica. Former positions with U.S. Office of Personnel Management: Director; Deputy Director; Chief of Staff; Director of Communications and Policy. Former Director of Communications, Congressional and Political Affairs, American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO; Communications Director, Congressman Tom Daschle; Administrative Assistant, Congresswoman Katie Hall; Staff Director and Counsel, Subcommittee on Antitrust and Restraint of Trade, Committee on Small Business, U.S. House of Representatives; Legislative Assistant, Congressman Jim Mattox.

Gregory Lashutka--Senior Vice President for Corporate Relations, Nationwide. Former Mayor and City Attorney, City of Columbus, Ohio; Partner, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, L.L.P.; Associate Attorney, Cameron & Cameron; Legislative Aide to U.S. Congressman Samuel Devine; Law Clerk to Judge Richard B. Metcalf.

Kristine M. Marcy--Consultant, McConnell International. Former Chief Operating Officer, Small Business Administration; Senior Counsel, Detention and Deportation, Immigration and Naturalization Service; Former positions with U.S. Department of Justice: Assistant Director for Prisoner Services, U.S. Marshals Service; Associate Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Deputy Attorney General. Acting Director, Deputy Director, Office of Construction Management and Deputy Budget Director, U.S. Department of the Interior; Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education; Assistant Director, Human Resources, Veterans and Labor Group, U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

David Mora--City Manager, City of Salinas, California. Former City Manager, City of Oxnard, California; Manager, Los Gatos, California. Former increasingly responsible positions with City of Santa Barbara, California: Director, Community Relations; Assistant to the City Administrator; Deputy City Administrator.

Frank S. Reeder--President, The Reeder Group. Former Director, Office of Administration, The White House. Former positions with U.S. Office of Management and Budget: Deputy Associate Director for Veterans Affairs and Personnel; Assistant Director for General Management and Deputy Assistant Director; Chief, Deputy Chief, Information Policy Branch; Policy Analyst; Chief, Systems Development Branch. Former Deputy Director, House Information Systems, Committee Staff, Committee on House Administration, U.S. House of Representatives. Former positions with U.S. Department of the Treasury and U.S. Department of Defense focusing on information technology and systems.

Robert J. Shea--Director, Global Public Sector, Grant Thornton LLP. Former positions with U.S. Office of Management and Budget: Associate Director for Administration and Government Performance, Associate Director for Management, Counsel to the Controller. Former Counsel, Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate; Legislative Director, Office of Representative Pete Sessions; Special Assistant/Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, U.S. House of Representatives.

Thomas H. Stanton--Financial and Legal Policy Consultant; Fellow, Center for the Study of American Government, Johns Hopkins University. Former Partner, Wellford, Wegman, and Hoff; Associate General Counsel, Federal National Mortgage Association; Acting Director and Deputy Director, Office of Policy and Planning, U.S. Federal Trade Commission; Director, Housing Research Group; Director, Tax Reform Research Group.

Cindy Wiliams--Senior Fellow and Principal Research Scientist, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Former Assistant Director, National Security Division, Congressional Budget Office. Former positions with The MITRE Corporation: Director, C2 Integration Environment; Associate Technical Director, Continental Command, Control, and Communications Division; Department Head, Strategic Air Command Systems Department; Associate Department Head, Strategic Defense Initiative. Former positions with U.S. Department of Defense: Director, Strategic Offensive Forces Division, Program Analysis and Evaluation, Office of the Secretary; Operations Analyst. Former positions with RAND Corporation: Mathematician, Strategic Forces Project; Project Leader, Force Operations Team, Automated Wargaming Center.

Jennifer L. Dorn--President and Chief Executive Officer, National Academy of Public Administration. Former Alternate Executive Director, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, World Bank; Administrator, Federal Transit Administration; President, National Health Museum, Inc.; Senior Vice President, Policy and Planning, American Red Cross; Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy, U.S. Department of Labor; Director of Strategic Planning, Martin Marietta. Former positions with U.S. Department of Transportation: Special Assistant to the Secretary of Transportation; Director, Office of Commercial Space Transportation; Associate Deputy Secretary.


 

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