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.

H. Giovanni Carnaroli serves as associate chief information officer for IT policy oversight at the Department of Transportation. He is responsible for leading a team in all areas of IT policy, investment management, Enterprise Architecture, and governance. He previously was program director for the IT Project and Portfolio Services in the FAA Office of the CIO. In this position, Carnaroli was responsible for all aspects of IT capital planning; overseeing the development of the agency’s IT business cases and IT portfolio; implementing Earned Value Management and other program management best practices and processes; and representing the agency at the Department of Transportation in all areas of IT capital planning and investment control.

Carnaroli also worked in the FAA’s Office of Aviation Policy and Plans, where he was responsible for aircraft certification regulation. In addition to his government career, he worked as an air transport management consultant.

Carnaroli graduated summa cum laude in agricultural economics from North Carolina State University, earned a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Maryland at College Park, and a master’s degree in security management from The George Washington University.

Tom Perrelli is the 18th associate attorney general at the Department of Justice, a post he has held since the Senate confirmed him March 12, 2009.

Previously, Perrelli served as counsel to then-Attorney General Janet Reno for almost two years before becoming the deputy assistant attorney general for the civil division. The civil division defends agencies in the federal government in litigation, and Perrelli worked as a supervisor with the tobacco litigation team.

Prior to ending up at DOJ, Perrelli was partner in the Washington offices of Jenner & Block. He started at the firm’s entertainment law division and later became managing partner of the firm. He was involved in litigation that involved First Amendment rights, intellectual property, technology, and copyright-infringement issues. In addition to litigating prominent copyright-law cases to the Supreme Court, Perrelli represented Michael Schiavo, the husband of Terri Schiavo. Perelli fought for, and eventually won, Schiavo the right to terminate his wife’s life support.

Before joining Jenner & Block in 1991, Perrelli clerked for Royce C. Lamberth at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Perrelli graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991, where he was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review (working under Barack Obama). He earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Brown University in 1988, where he served as editor-in-chief of The Critical Review, Brown’s student publication of course evaluations.