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 and Security Academy, LLC.

In October 2008, Wagner retired from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where she served as budget director and cybersecurity coordinator. Prior to that, Wagner served in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as assistant deputy director of national intelligence for management and the first chief financial officer for the National Intelligence Program. She took this position after serving as executive director for intelligence community affairs.

Wagner’s previous position was that of the senior Defense Intelligence Agency representative to the United States European Command and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. She also served as DIA deputy director for analysis and production and as director of military intelligence staff.

Before joining DIA, Wagner serves as director of the Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Her experience also includes serving as a signals intelligence and electronic Warfare Officer in the United States Army.

Wagner has a bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary, and a master’s degree from the University of Southern California.

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 reviews federal regulatory action, among other responsibilities.

From 2007 to 2008, Orszag served as director of the Congressional Budget Office, overseeing the agency’s work in providing objective nonpartisan analysis of economic and budgetary issues. Under his leadership, the agency significantly expanded its focus on areas such as healthcare and climate change.

Before CBO, Orszag was the Joseph A. Pechman senior fellow and deputy director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution.  During his tenure at Brookings, he also served as director of The Hamilton Project, director of the Retirement Security Project, and co-director of the Tax Policy Center. During the Clinton Administration, he was a special assistant to the president of economic policy and before that, a staff economist and then senior adviser and senior economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Dr. Orszag graduated summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University and obtained a doctorate degree in economics from the London School of Economics. He has co-authored or co-edited many books, including “Protecting the Homeland” (2006), “Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America: (2006), “Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach” (2004), and “American Economic Policy in the 1990s” (2002). He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences.

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 with partners both inside and outside of government to create flexible, results-oriented HR policies and to change how Americans view their public servants.

Berry’s career in the federal government spans over more than 20 years. He is an advocate for public service and federal workers. He first developed expertise in federal employee and retirement issues when serving as legislative director for Congressman Steny Hoyer of Maryland (now majority leader).

Before serving as legislative director, Berry was deputy assistant secretary and acting assistant secretary for law enforcement at the Department of the Treasury, where he was responsible for almost half of the federal law enforcement community, including the Secret Service and the ATF. He then served as assistant secretary for policy, management and budget at the Department of the Interior.

From 2001 to 2008, Berry pursued his interest in conservation as director of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and then as director of the National Zoo.

Bryan Sivak was appointed Oct. 13, 2009 to the Cabinet post of chief technology officer for the District of Columbia. In that role, Sivak leads the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, which is an organization that provides technology services and leadership for 86 agencies, 38,000 employees, residents, businesses and millions of visitors.

Sivak has more than 15 years of experience in building software and internet technologies and organizations. In 2002, he founded and developed InQuira, Inc., a multinational technology-solutions company. During his tenure, he managed all aspects of the business, including design and development of the product, and sales, marketing and management activities relating to the overall execution of InQuira’s business plan and growth of the company. In 2005, he moved to London and opened the European office of the company, which he grew from zero to 30 percent of the company’s revenue in four years.

Before joining InQira, Sivak founded Electric Knowledge LLC, which provided the world’s first natural-language search engine available on the Web. The company’s customers included Bank of America and Fidelity Investments, among others.

Sivak has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Chicago.

Julius Genachowski was nominated by President Barack Obama as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on March 3, 2009, and sworn into office June 29, 2009. Prior to his appointment, he worked as an executive and entrepreneur. He co-founded LaunchBox Digital and Rock Creek Ventures, where he served as managing director. He was also a special adviser at General Atlantic. In these capacities, he worked to start, accelerate, and invest in early- and mid-stage technology and other companies. From 1997-2005, he was a senior executive at IAC/InterActiveCorp, a Fortune 500 company, where his positions included chief of business operations and general counsel.

Genachowski’s confirmation as FCC chairman returns him to the agency where, from 1994 until 1997, he served as chief counsel to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt. Before being chief counsel, he served as special counsel to then-FCC General Counsel (later chairman) William Kennard. Previously, he was a law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice David Souter and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., and at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for Chief Judge Abner Mikva. Genachowski also worked in Congress for then-U.S. Representative Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), and on the staff of the House select committee investigating the Iran-Contra Affair.

Genachowski was part of the founding group of New Resource Bank, which specializes in serving the needs of green entrepreneurs and sustainable businesses, and has served on the Advisory Board of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2). He also served as a board member of Common Sense Media, a leading nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that aims to improve the media lives of children and families.

Genachowski received his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was co-notes editor of the Harvard Law Review. He received an undergraduate degree from Columbia College, where he was editor of Columbia Spectator’s Broadway Magazine, and writer and researcher for Fred Friendly. He was also a certified emergency medical technician who served on the Columbia Area Volunteer Ambulance.

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.