Professor Anne M. Khademian is the director for Virginia Tech’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, and professor with the Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP). Her research interests focus on leadership and organizational culture, inclusive management, policy networks, and the work of organizations involved in homeland security and financial regulation. She is the author of numerous articles on public management and public policy, and the books Working with Culture: The Way the Job Gets Done in Public Programs (CQ Press, 2002), Checking on Banks: Autonomy and Accountability in Three Federal Agencies (Brookings, 1996), and The SEC and Capital Market Regulation: The Politics of Expertise Before joining Virginia Tech, Professor Khademian was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania. She served as a co-editor for the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and is a member of several editorial boards for public administration and policy journals. She is the incoming editor of the Administrative Profiles section in Public Administration Review. In 2009, she was named a Fellow with the National Academy of Public Administration. Anne holds a BA in Political Science and an MPA from Michigan State University, and a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in Political Science.

From January of 2002 until September of 2007 Bill served as Chief of Staff to Governors Kaine and Warner of Virginia. As Chief of Staff, Bill served as the Chief Operating Officer of the Commonwealth. In 2005, Governing Magazine named Virginia the “Best Managed State in the Nation” and in 2007, Governing Magazine named him one of the nine “Public Officials of the Year.” For seven years, Bill was the Director of the Virginia Retirement System, where led the agency to three consecutive US Senate Productivity Awards. Upon retirement Bill joined DecideSmart LLC consulting. In April of 2008, he served as Senior Advisor to the Scottish Executive advising the government on how to design and implement Scotland Performs, a national performance management system. In July of 2008 Bill conducted a performance review of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, a $52 billion pension system. In 2011, at the request of the National Governors Association, Bill led a 5 person delegation to Nigeria to conduct a “new governors” seminar for the newly elected governors of Nigeria. In August of 2012 Bill was appointed “Professor of Practice” by Virginia Tech and teaches strategic planning and administrative behavior in the MPA program in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. Bill joined state government after serving in the United States Marine Corps. Bill graduated from Mary Washington College in 1978, and holds an MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University.