Nancy Cleeland is director of public affairs at the National Labor Relations Board. Before joining NLRB, Cleeland was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Los Angeles Times and covered major labor disputes and economic issues. Prior to being a labor reporter, Cleeland worked at the LA Times’ Orange County edition as a metro reporter specializing in Latino affairs.

After graduating in 1977 from the University of Arizona, Tucson with a journalism degree, Cleeland worked as a staff writer at The Associated Press. Other journalism-related jobs thereafter include reporter for the  Blade-Tribune in Oceanside, Calif.; outdoor writer for the San Diego Tribune; feature writer for the San Diego Union; Mexico City correspondent at Copley News Service; and national correspondent for the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Elizabeth Murphy became secretary at the Securities and Exchange Commission in December 2008. She was previously the head of the Office of Rulemaking in SEC’s division of corporation finance. As secretary of the commission, Murphy is responsible for the procedural administration of commission meetings, rulemaking, practice, and procedure. She also reviews all SEC documents submitted by the staff to the commission, including rulemaking releases, SEC enforcement orders and litigation releases, and actions taken by SEC staff pursuant to delegated authority.

In addition, Murphy receives and tracks documents filed in administrative proceedings, requests for confidential treatment, and comment letters on rule proposals. The office is responsible for publishing official documents and releases of commission actions in the federal register and the SEC docket, as well as monitoring compliance with the Government in the Sunshine Act.

In her past role as chief of the Office of Rulemaking, Murphy prepared rules and interpretive guidance on behalf of the division. Murphy joined the division of corporation finance in 1986 as an attorney adviser, and in 1987 was promoted to the position of special counsel. She was made a special counsel in the Office of the Chief Counsel in 1996, and later served as counsel to Commissioner Laura S. Unger.

Murphy graduated in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, and received her law degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1985.

Wilmer Graham has served as deputy director of strategic planning and evaluation at the Pension and Benefit Guarantee Corporation since 2008. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte – Belk College of Business.

Steven E. Goldberg is chief financial officer at the National Traffic Safety Board. In that capacity, he manages the board’s financial resources; oversees all financial management activities relating to the programs and operations of the board; develops, prepares, and coordinates annual budget requests to OMB and Congress; and leads the agency’s efforts to comply with any applicable financial laws and regulations.

Prior to his role at NTSB, Goldberg served as national director of systems and accounting standards at the IRS. He also held a position at the IRS as travel ombudsman and chief of travel management and relocation.

Goldberg has a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Northeastern University, and a master’s degree in business administration from Northeastern University’s Graduate School of Business Administration.

Cass R. Sunstein serves as administrator at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget. Prior to his current position, Sunstein was a tenured professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He currently teaches at the law school as a visiting professor, and is the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence.

After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1978, Sunstein clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. He also worked in the Department of Justice as an attorney-adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel.

Sunstein has written extensively on many aspects of public law, including the regulation of risk, the nature of rights, judicial decision-making, and numerous features of administrative, environmental, and constitutional doctrine. Sunstein’s analysis has been studied by many private and public institutions, including the CIA.

Sunstein is the author or co-author of hundreds of academic articles and numerous books, including the 2008 “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness,” which discusses how public and private organizations can help people make better choices in their daily lives.

H. Alan Lane is associative chief information officer at the Office of Open Government of the Social Security Administration. The Office of Open Government is responsible for assessing agency notices and for the development and implementation of the agency’s authentication policies and procedures.

Eileen Harrington joined the Small Business Administration as chief operating officer in April 2009. She came to SBA after a long career at the Federal Trade Commission, where one of her accomplishments includes creating the Do Not Call Registry with her team. She also led development of the FTC’s internet fraud enforcement program, and coordinated domestic and international law enforcement programs to protect consumers.

Harrington has a bachelor’s degree in history and social sciences from Edgewood College, and a law degree from Antioch Law School. She was the Partnership for Public Service 2004 Service to America Medal winner and the recipient of the 1997 Distinguished Executive in the Senior Executive Service Award.

Matthew E. Perry has been acting chief information officer at the Office of Personnel Management since September 2009. He is also program director of  Enterprise Human Resources Integration (EHRI), which is an OPM-led e-Government initiative designed to leverage the benefits of IT in accordance with the President’s Management Agenda.

Prior to working at OPM, Perry served as chief of human resources management at the Department of Defense, where he oversaw HR operations and investment.

Perry is graduate of Northwest Missouri State University.

Stuart Reiter has served as senior adviser of e-Government at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission since 2003. Reiter joined NRC in May 1999 as deputy chief information officer and was appointed chief information officer in June 2001. Prior to his tenure at NRC, Reiter was director of infrastructure at IMC Global, and served as a consultant with Advanced Systems Development Inc.

Reiter received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering from City College, N.Y., and attended New York University for graduate studies in computer science.

Peter L. Levin was appointed senior adviser to the secretary, and chief technology officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs June 1, 2009. Levin’s job is to identify new technologies and promote innovations that will allow VA to serve veterans with higher reliability, greater accessibility, and reduced cost. He also acts as a liaison to key stakeholders, other federal agencies, and private sector partners.

Prior to joining VA, Levin worked as co-founder and chief executive of as semiconductor software firm, where he sat on the board of directors of several technology start-ups, such as NeoLinear Inc. and Astaro AG. He was also general partner of TVM and well as venture partner in Ventizz Capital–both Germany-based early-stage venture capital firms

During the Clinton administration, Levin held various roles including special assistant to the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the assistant to the counselor to the president. He was also an expert consultant in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he co-edited the 1997 Biennial Presidential Report to Congress on Science and Technology, and co-authored its chapter on technology.

Levin began his academic career at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and later served as research dean in the College of Engineering at Boston University. A National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator, he has written articles on topics ranging from global positioning and cybersecurity to advanced simulations of electromagnetic and ultrasonic systems. Levin was a guest professor of mathematical physics and Humboldt fellow at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and is currently a consulting professor at Stanford University and a member of the advisory board of the computer science department at WPI.

Levin earned his doctorate degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.