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APPENDIX - Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab Staff Bios Jeffrey Liebman, Director of Government Performance Lab Jeffrey Liebman is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and director of the Government Performance Lab. Liebman teaches courses in public sector economics and American economic policy. In his research, he studies tax and budget policy, social insurance, poverty, income inequality, public sector management, and social innovation. Over the past four years, his Government Performance Lab has provided pro bono technical assistance to twenty state and local governments. He also directs the Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government and Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. During the first two years of the Obama Administration, Liebman worked at OMB, first as Executive Associate Director and Chief Economist and then as Acting Deputy Director. From 1998 to 1999, Liebman served as Special Assistant to the President for economic policy and coordinated the Clinton Administration's Social Security reform technical working group. Liebman received his BA from Yale University and his MA and PhD in economics from Harvard. Greg Wass, Senior Advisor Greg Wass is a Senior Advisor to the Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab. Greg was formerly Senior Advisor and Chief Information Officer in the Office of the Illinois Governor, and has served in executive positions for Cook County, Illinois, the City of Chicago and the City of Alexandria, Virginia. He was the state lead on Illinois' SIB Lab project to increase support for at -risk youth who are involved in both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. He co-chaired the Illinois Human Services Commission and led the implementation of Budgeting for Results — the state's performance reporting and budgeting framework. Greg has been a pioneer nationally in open government, with open data initiatives at Cook County and on a regional level, and led planning and implementation of IT governance, enterprise architecture, health information exchange, state-owned broadband and IT shared services. In 2012, Greg was recognized by Government Technology magazine as one of the nation's top "doers, dreamers and drivers" in public sector innovation. He has taught public policy and administration courses as an adjunct professor at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois. Greg holds a B.A. in economics from Northwestern University and an M.A. in urban and quantitative economics from the University of Illinois. Jen North, Assistant Director Jen North is an Assistant Director with the Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab.. She helps lead the GPL's work on Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities initiative and has supported a number of cities in implementing results -driven contracting strategies. Jen has also supported the launch of the DC Water and Sewer Authority's Environmental Impact Bond. Previously, Jen held roles at The Nielsen Company and PE International. Jen holds a BA in Political Science from Miami University and an MPP from Harvard Kennedy School.