Sean OKeefe
Administrator, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Sean O'Keefe was sworn in as NASA's 10th Administrator on Dec. 21,
2001, following his nomination by President George W. Bush on November
14 and confirmation by the U.S. Senate on December 20.
O'Keefe
came to NASA from the Office of Management and Budget, where he
served as Deputy Director since March 2001. As the first deputy
cabinet officer appointed in the Bush Administration, Mr. OKeefe
oversaw the preparation, management and administration of the Federal
budget and government wide management initiatives across the Executive
Branch.
Before
joining OMB, Mr. OKeefe was the Louis A. Bantle Professor
of Business and Government Policy, an endowed chair, at the Syracuse
University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He
also served as the Director of National Security Studies, a partnership
of Syracuse University and Johns Hopkins University for delivery
of executive education programs for senior military and civilian
Department of Defense managers. Appointed to these positions in
1996, he was previously Professor of Business Administration and
Assistant to the Senior Vice President for Research and Dean of
the Graduate School at the Pennsylvania State University.
Prior
to appointment as the Secretary of the Navy in July 1992 by President
George Bush, he had served previously as Comptroller and Chief Financial
Officer of the Department of Defense since 1989. Before joining
Defense Secretary Dick Cheneys Pentagon management team in
these capacities, he served on the United States Senate Committee
on Appropriations staff for eight years, and was Staff Director
of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. His public service began
in 1978 upon selection as a Presidential Management Intern.
Sean
OKeefe is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration
and has served as chair of an Academy panel on investigative practices.
He was a Visiting Scholar at the Wolfson College of the University
of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, a member of the Naval Postgraduate
Schools civil-military relations seminar team for emerging
democracies and has conducted seminars for the Strategic Studies
Group at Oxford University. He served on the national security panel
to devise the 1988 Republican platform and was a member of the 1985
Kennedy School of Government program for national security executives
at Harvard University.
In
1993, President Bush and Secretary Cheney presented him the Distinguished
Public Service Award. He was also the recipient of the Department
of the Navys Public Service Award in December 2000. Sean OKeefe
was the 1999 faculty recipient of the Syracuse University Chancellors
Award for Public Service. He is the author of several journal articles,
contributing author of Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the
Future, released in October 2000, and in 1998, co-authored The Defense
Industry in the Post-Cold War Era: Corporate Strategies and Public
Policy Perspectives. He is also a member of the Bohemian Club of
San Francisco.
Sean
OKeefe earned his B.A. in 1977 from Loyola University in New
Orleans, Louisiana, and his M.P.A. in 1978 from Syracuse Universitys
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He and his wife
Laura reside in Ashburn, Virginia with their children Lindsey, Jonathan,
and Kevin.
December
2001