John M. Kamensky

Mr. Kamensky is a senior fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government in Washington, D.C., where he is passionate about helping transform government to be more results-oriented, performance-based, customer-driven, and collaborative in nature. The IBM Center is committed to bridging academic research and practice by sponsoring research by leading academics on challenges facing public managers. Prior to joining the IBM Center, he had a significant role in helping pioneer the U.S. federal government’s performance and results orientation. He served for eight years as deputy director of Vice President Gore’s National Partnership for Reinventing Government and special assistant to the Deputy Director for Management at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Before that, he worked at the U.S. Government Accountability Office where he played a key role in the development and passage of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993.He has co-edited six books and writes and speaks extensively on government reform issues such as performance management, cost-cutting strategies, collaborative networks, citizen engagement, and the Web 2.0 phenomena. In addition, he contributes to a blog on the management challenges associated with the Obama Administration’s agenda.Mr. Kamensky is a public member of the Administrative Conference of the U.S. and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He is the 2011 recipient of the Association of Government Accountants’ Cornelius Tierney Research Award and chairs the Center for Accountability and Performance, which is sponsored by the American Society for Public Administration. He received a Masters in Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, in Austin, Texas. He can be reached at: [email protected]. Mr. Kamensky is a senior fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government in Washington, D.C., where he is passionate about helping transform government to be more results-oriented, performance-based, customer-driven, and collaborative in nature. The IBM Center is committed to bridging academic research and practice by sponsoring research by leading academics on challenges facing public managers.

Prior to joining the IBM Center, he had a significant role in helping pioneer the U.S. federal government’s performance and results orientation. He served for eight years as deputy director of Vice President Gore’s National Partnership for Reinventing Government and special assistant to the Deputy Director for Management at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Before that, he worked at the U.S. Government Accountability Office where he played a key role in the development and passage of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993.

He has co-edited six books and writes and speaks extensively on government reform issues such as performance management, cost-cutting strategies, collaborative networks, citizen engagement, and the Web 2.0 phenomena. In addition, he contributes to a blog on the management challenges associated with the Obama Administration’s agenda.

Mr. Kamensky is a public member of the Administrative Conference of the U.S. and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He is the 2011 recipient of the Association of Government Accountants’ Cornelius Tierney Research Award and chairs the Center for Accountability and Performance, which is sponsored by the American Society for Public Administration. He received a Masters in Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, in Austin, Texas. He can be reached at: [email protected].