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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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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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