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Performance-Based Government


Client/Funder:
Performance Consortium

Purpose and Scope:
The purpose of the Performance Consortium Panel is to review the Performance Consortium program and its products. By way of background, the Performance Consortium was launched last year with 26 members to carry out a common agenda of "helpful practice" work to support the successful implementation of the Government Performance and Results Act.

Consortium:
Consortia for Improving Government Performance

Project Director:
Richard Keevey

Project Status:
Ongoing

Panel Members:

Christopher Mihm (Co-Chair) - Director, Strategic Issues, U.S. General Accounting Office. Former Assistant Director, Federal Management Issues, and Evaluator, U.S. General Accounting Office.

Bernard Martin (Co-Chair) - Consultant. Former positions with the U.S. Office of Management and Budget: Special Assistant to the Deputy Director for Management; Deputy Associate Director for Human Resources; Assistant Director for Legislative Reference; Deputy Associate Director, Labor, Veterans, and Education Division; Chief, Economics-Science-General Government Branch, Legislative Reference Division.

Kathy Newcomer - Department Chair and Professor, Department of Public Administration, George Washington University. Former Associate Professor, George Washington University; Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska; Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Denver.

Hannah Sistare - Executive Director, National Commission on Public Service. Former Majority Staff Director, Minority Staff Director, and Counsel, Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Former Legislative Director, Senator Fred Thompson; Independent Research and Writing Consultant; Vice President for Public Policy, Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc.; Special Counsel to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Chief of Staff to Senator Charles Percy.

Cora Beebe - Consultant. Former Vice President, Jefferson Consulting Group; Chief Financial Officer/Executive Director (Administration), Office of Thrift Supervision, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Branch Chief and Executive Assistant to the Associate Director for Management, U.S. Office of Management and Budget; Director, Planning, Budget, and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Commerce; Director, Policy, Budget, and Program Management, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Frank Hodsoll - Senior Consultant Logistics Management Institute. Federal: Deputy Director Management US Office Management & Budget; chair President's councils Management Improvement (COOs) and Integrity and Efficiency (IGs), Chief Financial Officers Council, and Federal Credit Policy Working Group; Executive Associate Director OMB with oversight national security and international affairs budgets. Chairman National Endowment for the Arts; Deputy Assistant to President Reagan; Deputy US Special Representative Non-Proliferation, Director Law of the Sea Office Department of State; Deputy Assistant Secretary Policy Department of Commerce; Executive Assistant Under Secretary Commerce; Director Commerce Office Industrial Energy Conservation; Special Assistant Administrator EPA; Assistant Political Adviser SACEUR; Infantry Officer; Legislative Assistant Congressman. State & Local: County Commissioner in Colorado; chair Rural Action Caucus Telecommunications Committee National Association of Counties and vice chair NACo Telecommunications and Technology Steering Committee. Member Colorado Governor Owens New Century Colorado Committee to improve management Colorado State agencies. Private: co-founder and CEO Southwest Colorado Data Center; Managing Director British trading company Philippines; Associate Sullivan & Cromwell (NY law firm). Education: Yale (B.A.), Cambridge (M.A., LL.B.), and Stanford (J.D.).

Barry White - Director, Government Performance Projects, Council for Excellence in Government. Former positions with U.S. Office of Management and Budget: Deputy Associate Director, Education, Income Maintenance, and Labor; Chief, Education Branch; Budget Examiner, Employment and Training Programs. Former Director, Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Special Assistant to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor; Director, Elementary and Secondary Education Analysis, Office of Planning and Budget, U.S. Department of Education.

Charles F. Bingman - Fellow, Center for the Study of American Government, Johns Hopkins University. Former Professor, Department of Public Administration, George Washington University; Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation; Deputy Administrator and Acting Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation Administration; Deputy Associate Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget.

Meetings:

Meeting 1: December 19, 2003 (posted 12/11/03)
Meeting 2: February 10, 2004 (posted 2/2/04)
Meeting 3: March 18, 2004 (posted 3/2/04)

 

 

 

 

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Academy Fellow Publishes Memories

"Apartheid South Africa was on fire around me." So begins the memoir of Academy Fellow and Career Foreign Service Officer Edward J. Perkins, the first black U.S. ambassador to South Africa.

In 1986, President Ronald Reagan gave him an unparalleled assignment: dismantle apartheid without violence. As he fulfilled this assignment, Perkins faced enormous challenges posed by the American media, Afrikaner government, white South African citizens, and initially black South African revolutionaries. It was Perkins' advice to President-elect George H.W. Bush that helped modify American policy and hasten the release of Nelson Mandela and others from prison.

Perkins's up-by-your-bootstraps life took him from a cotton farm in segregated Louisiana to the U.S. Foreign Service, where he became the first black officer to ascend to the top position of director general.

This is the story of how one man turned the page of history.

Buy"Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace"

The views expressed in this book are those of the Fellow. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the Academy as an institution.


               Mr Edward J. Perkins                                                      First black U.S. ambassador to South Africa

 

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