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Biographical
Sketches of Members
Performance Measurement Advisory Council
Mortimer
L. Downey III
Mortimer
L. Downey III has been named a principal consultant at PBConsult, a Parsons
Brinckerhoff subsidiary providing advisory and management consulting services
to public and private owners, developers, financers and builders of infrastructure
projects worldwide. PBConsult helps decision makers determine how best
to develop infrastructure assets, deliver cost-effective physical systems
and provide the vital services that build and sustain economic growth.
Mr. Downey
held the position of U.S. deputy secretary of transportation for eight
years, becoming the longest serving individual in that post. As the
Department's chief operating officer, Mr. Downey developed the agency's
highly regarded strategic and performance plans and had program responsibilities
for operations, regulation and investments in land, sea, air and space
transportation. He also served on the President's Management Council,
as Chairman of the National Science and Technology's Committee on Technology,
as a member of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Council and as a member
of the Board of Directors of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation
(Amtrak). In a prior Administration he had served as an Assistant Secretary
of the Department.
Previously,
Mr. Downey was the executive director and chief financial officer of the
New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the nation's largest
independent public authority. Over a 12 year period, he directed MTA capital
programs totaling over $20 billion, including development of new public
and private financing techniques, and responsibility for oversight of
capital project designs, budgets, schedules and performance. He has also
worked at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Budget, and
at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Mr. Downey
has received numerous professional awards, including election to the National
Academy of Public Administration, where he serves as Chairman of the Board
of Directors. He was the 1999 recipient of the American Society of Public
Administration's Truitt Award for transportation management. He received
the Frank Turner Lifetime Achievement award from the Transportation Research
Board, a lifetime achievement award from the American Public Transportation
Association, the Leadership Award from the Intelligent Transportation
Society of America and the Member of the Year Award from the Women's Transportation
Seminar. He was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Eno
Transportation Foundation and is serving on the National Academy of Science's
Committee on Science & Technology Countermeasures to Terrorism.
A 1958 graduate
of Yale University with a B.A. in Political Science, Mr. Downey earned
his masters degree in Public Administration from New York University,
completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School
and served as an officer in the United States Coast Guard Reserve. He
resides in Oakton, Virginia.
William
Eggers
William
Eggers is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based Manhattan Institute (manhattan-institute.org),
where he is working on a book on how digital technologies are transforming
government.
He is the
former Manager of the Texas Performance Review and Project Director for
e-Texas, a state initiative charged with developing recommendations to
save tax dollars, increase the use of technology, improve customer service
and inject private-sector competition into state services.
Eggers managed
performance reviews of Texas government that identified over $2.5 billion
worth of savings and non-tax revenues for the state. Over 60 percent of
the recommendations in the reviews were enacted into law. Mr. Eggers also
served as a Commissioner for the Texas Incentive and Productivity Commission
and a designee on the Texas Council on Competitive Government.
In addition,
Eggers was the Chair of the Government Reform Policy Committee for then
Governor George W. Bush during his presidential campaign. In this capacity
he coordinated research for the campaign in e-government, privatization,
civil service reform, government performance, procurement and other cross-cutting
policy areas.
Mr. Eggers
is the former Director of Government Reform at the Reason Public Policy
Institute, a Los Angeles-based think tank. A nationally recognized expert
on government reform, Eggers is the 1996 winner of the prestigious Roe
Award for leadership and innovation in public policy research. Mr. Eggers
is also the co-author of Revolution at the Roots: Making our Government
Smaller, Better, and Closer to Home (The Free Press). The book was named
the winner of the 1996 Sir Anthony Fisher International Memorial Award
for the book "making the greatest contribution to the understanding
of the free economy during the past two years." Prior to joining
the Reason Foundation, Mr. Eggers assisted reformers in Eastern Europe
and the former Soviet Union with the transition from socialist to free-market
economies as a policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation in Washington,
D.C. Mr. Eggers has advised dozens of cities, states, and foreign countries
and trained hundreds of public officials on restructuring government.
Mr. Eggers
graduated magna cum laude from the University of California at San Diego.
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Harry
P. Hatry
Harry P.
Hatry is a Principal Research Associate and Director of the Public Management
Program for The Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. He has been a leader
in developing performance management/measurement and evaluation procedures
for public agencies since 1970. He has worked with federal, state, and
local agencies to develop outcome measurement procedures for a wide variety
of public services.
He has
provided assistance on Government Performance and Results Act-related
activities to the U.S. Departments of Education, Justice, and Health
and Human Services, and the Environmental Protection Agency's National
Estuary Program. He assisted a consortium of 35 large U.S. cities and
counties to develop comparative performance information, establish benchmarks,
and provide best-practice information on a number of basic municipal
services. He recently assisted the United Way of American to develop
training materials on outcome monitoring for private, non-governmental,
human service agencies.
He is a
fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration. He was a member
of the U.S. Department of Education's external Evaluation Review (Advisory)
Panel. He is a member of the United Way of Americas Task Force on Outcome
Measurement.
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Patricia
Ingraham
Patricia
Wallace Ingraham is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at
the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
She was the Founding Director of the Alan K. Campbell Public Affairs Institute
and the first director of the Government Performance Project, a multi-year
study of management at all levels of government in the United States.
Ingraham has lectured and written extensively on the topics of public
management and bureaucratic reform. She is the author or editor of nine
books; including The Foundation of Merit: Public Service in American
Democracy and the forthcoming Government Performance: Why Management
Matters.
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Donald
F. Kettl
Donald F.
Kettl is Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science at the Robert
M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He is also Nonresident Senior Fellow in Washington's Brookings Institution.
Kettl recently chaired the Wisconsin Governor's Blue Ribbon Commission
on Campaign Finance Reform and the Wisconsin Governor's Blue Ribbon Commission
on State-Local Partnerships for the 21st Century.
Professor
Kettl is a student of public policy and public management, specializing
in the design and performance of public organizations. He has appeared
on national television on shows ranging from Good Morning America and
the CBS Evening News to public television's News Hour, and on talk radio
shows around the country. He has testified frequently at congressional
hearings in Washington and contributed to op-ed pages in major newspapers,
including The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Los Angeles
Times. He also contributes a regular column to Governing magazine, "Potomac
Chronicles," which is read by leading state and local government
officials around the country.
Professor
Kettl is the author or editor of a dozen books and monographs, including:
"The
Transformation of Governance
"Environmental Governance: A Report on the Next Generation of Environmental
Policy
"The Global Public Management Revolution: A Report on the Transformation
of Governance
"Reinventing Government: A Fifth-Year Report Card
"Civil Service Reform: Building a Government that Works
"Sharing Power: Public Governance and Private Markets
"Deficit Politics; and
"Leadership at the Fed.
He has also
published widely in professional journals.
He has consulted
for a broad array of public organizations, including the U.S. Departments
of Defense, Energy, Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury; the
Forest Service, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Budget,
the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal National Mortgage Association,
the Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Commission on the
Public Service (Volcker Commission), and the National Commission the State
and Local Public Service (Winter Commission). He has advised the White
House during both Republican and Democratic administrations.
Prior to
his appointment at the University of Wisconsin, Professor Kettl taught
at Vanderbilt University, the University of Virginia, and Columbia University.
Professor Kettl has earned his bachelor's and doctorate degrees from
Yale University. He is a fellow of Phi Beta Kappa and the National Academy
of Public Administration. He is also a shareholder in the Green Bay
Packers.
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Joseph
Wright, Jr.
Joseph R.
Wright is President and CEO of PanAmSat Corporation, one of the world's
largest providers of global satellite-based communications services; servicing
video/TV networks, news organizations, telecommunication companies, Internet
networks and others around the globe. Prior to joining PanAmSat in 2001,
he was Vice Chairman of Terremark Worldwide, Inc., that develops and operates
Internet-fiber based Network Access Point (NAP) centers in Miami, Sao
Paulo, and Madrid. Mr. Wright was also Chairman and Director of GRC International,
Inc., that provided advanced IT, Internet, and software technologies to
government and commercial customers, which was sold to AT&T in 2000.
And he was Co-Chairman and Director of Baker & Taylor Holdings, Inc.,
an international book/video/software distribution and e-commerce company
that is majority owned by the Carlyle Group.
Prior to
entering the e-commerce and telecommunications world, Mr. Wright was Vice
Chairman, EVP and Director of W. R. Grace & Company from 1989 to 1994.
Before that, he was Deputy Director then Director of the Federal Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) under President Reagan, serving in the
Cabinet and the Executive Office of the President from 1982 to 1989. He
was one of a few individuals who received the Distinguished Citizens Award
from the President. He was also Deputy Secretary of the Department of
Commerce, from 1981 to 1982 and was later on the President's Export Council
as Chairman of the Export Control Subcommittee. Prior to the 1980's, Mr.
Wright was President of Citicorp Retail Services and Retail Consumer Services,
credit card subsidiaries of Citibank, following positions in the Federal
Departments of Agriculture and Commerce, including acting Assistant Secretary
for Economic Affairs.
He began
his career at Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Inc. where he became one of the
youngest Partners and the Division Head of the Growth Services consulting
business after receiving an MIA from Yale University and a BS from Colorado
School of Mines. In addition to the Boards mentioned above, Mr. Wright
also currently serves on the Board of Advisors/Directors of AT&T Government
Markets, Titan Corporation, Verso Technologies, Terremark Worldwide, Proxim
Corporation and Fairmarket. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations,
Council for Excellence in Government, Chief Executives Organization, Committee
for a Responsible Federal Budget, the Federal Communications Commission's
Network Reliability and Interoperability Council and the New York Economic
Club. He lives with his wife, Ellen, in New York City.
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