Dr. Steven Kelman joins FedBid’s Board of Advisors
August 1, 2005
Dr. Kelman is the Weatherhead Professor of Public Management at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Kelman is the author of many books and articles on the policymaking process and on improving the management of government organizations, with his latest book, Unleashing Change: A Study of Organizational Change in Government, published in June 2005 by the Brookings Institution Press.
He is a frequent contributor to Federal Computer Week and currently serves as editor of the International Public Management Journal. From 1993 through 1997, Dr. Kelman served as Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy in the White House’s Office of Management and Budget. During his tenure, he played a primary role in the Administration’s “reinventing government” effort, leading the Administration’s support for the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 and the Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1995.
In l996, he was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. In 2001, he received the Herbert Roback Memorial Award, the highest achievement award of the National Contract Management Association, and in 2003 he was elected as a Director of The Procurement Roundtable.