Profiles

Robert A. Harding is a major general who retired from the Army in 2001 after serving for 33 years. He was recently tapped by President Barack Obama to head the...

Mary Wakefield was named administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration by President Barack Obama Feb. 20, 2009. Wakefield was previously at the University of North Dakota, where she...

Thomas R. Frieden became director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in 2009.  Frieden has worked to...

Price B. Floyd is the former principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. He served as staff adviser and assistant to the secretary of defense and deputy secretary...

Ashton B. Carter serves as under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics. Before assuming this position, Carter was chair of the international and global affairs faculty at Harvard’s...

Former Republican Senate Whip Alan K. Simpson was chosen to co-chair the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform in February 2010. After graduating from the University of Wyoming in...

Erskine Bowles was appointed to the position of co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform in February 2010. Currently the president of the University of North Carolina,...

  Caryn Wagner became under secretary for intelligence and analysis for the Department of Homeland Security in February 2010.She was previously an instructor in intelligence resource management for The Intelligence...

Peter Orszag is director of the Office of Management and Budget and oversees the Obama administration's budget policy, coordinates the implementation of major policy initiatives through the federal government, and...

As director of the United States Office of Personnel Management, John Berry is responsible for recruiting, hiring and setting benefits policies for almost two million federal civilian employees. Berry works...