Current Project:
U.S. Department of State Office of the Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance Stakeholder Consultation on the Foreign Assistance Standardized Program Structure and Definitions (posted 12/14/2007)

Client/Funder:

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance

Purpose and Scope:

The U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Director of the U.S. Foreign Assistance has asked the National Academy of Public Administration to plan, design and execute a consultative process to engage its stakeholder community in the continuing development of the Standardized Program Structure and Definitions (SPSD). The project will involve two tasks:  a series of five focus groups and a one-day, facilitated conference session. The Academy will use the stakeholder focus groups to collect suggestions and recommendations on SPSD and will analyze the inputs from the stakeholder sessions to prepare findings and recommendations for the final design of the one-day conference session.  After holding the conference session, National Academy will capture the proceedings of the session and work with State/F representatives to present recommendations for changes to the SPSD to senior State/F management for their review and approval.

Project Director: 

Lena Trudeau

Panel Chair:

Cindy L. Williams (97)—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.

Panel Members:

Michael Maccoby (85)—President, The Maccoby Group, PC. Former Director, Project on Technology, Work and Character, Public Policy and Human Development, JFK School of Government, Harvard University. Director, Bolivar Project, Harman Industries, United Auto Workers.

Robert L. Mallett (01)—Senior Vice President for Corporate Affairs, Pfizer, Inc. Former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce; Shareholder, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson, and Hand; City Administrator, Deputy Mayor, Principal Deputy Corporation Counsel, Government of the District of Columbia; Legal Counsel, Senator Lloyd Bentsen.

Victor Zafra (01)—International Consultant. Former Resident Budget Advisor to the Ministries of Finance in Sri Lanka, Romania, Ukraine, and Serb Republic, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Vice President for Business Affairs, Arizona State University; Vice Chancellor for Administration and Human Resources, University of Illinois at Chicago; Acting Director, Bureau of Medical Devices, FDA; various positions with the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, including: Branch Chief, Financing Branch and Health Programs Branch, Senior Budget Examiner, and Senior Legislative Analyst.

Meetings:

TBD

Contact Information:

For further information, contact Torrey Androski at (202) 347-3190, or at tandroski@napawash.org. 

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