A Better, More Diverse Senior Executive Service in 2050

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About the authorsJitinder Kohli is a Senior Fellow on the Doing What Works project at the Centerfor American Progress. His work focuses on government efficiency, regulatoryreform, and economic issues and he has worked closely with a number of federalagencies including OMB and OPM. Prior to joining CAP, Kohli spent 15 yearsas a civil servant in the U.K. government. He served on the board of the U.K.Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and also worked in the CabinetOffice, Her Majesty’s Treasury, and the Home Office. He has extensive experienceof diversity issues both within government and outside. Within government,he led a unit for the U.K. government focused on improving relations betweendifferent communities and has advised on ways to promote diversity of the seniorworkforce. Before joining government, he led a charity that aimed to increase thediversity of students admitted to Oxford University.John Gans is a Ph.D. student in international relations, strategic studies, andinternational economics at the Johns Hopkins University School of AdvancedInternational Studies. Gans previously worked with Speaker of the House ofRepresentatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), former Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton(D-NY), and the Iron Workers Union. Gans has written articles, reviews, andopinion pieces in the International Herald Tribune, Times of London LiterarySupplement, Survival, The Boston Globe, and The Baltimore Sun. He contributeda chapter to The 2008 Presidential Elections: A Story in Four Acts (NewYork: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). In 2008 he co-authored a Center for AmericanProgress Report on Cold War diplomacy.James Hairston is a Research Associate in Economic Policy at American Progress.A native of Jersey City, New Jersey, James received his B.A. in social studies fromHarvard University in 2007 and a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2010.29 Center for American Progress | A Better, More Diverse Senior Executive Service in 2050
AcknowledgementsThe authors are extremely grateful to those who helped with the preparation ofthis report. They would particularly like to thank Veronica E. Villalobos and DavidWeisman at the Office of Personnel Management; Karen Narasaki at the AsianAmerican Justice Center; Maria Echaveste at Nueva Vista Group; Cyrus Mehriof Mehri & Skalet; and Vanessa Cárdenas, Daniella Léger, Julie Ajinkya, JasminJones, Folayemi Agbede, and Gadi Dechter at the Center for American Progress.30 Center for American Progress | A Better, More Diverse Senior Executive Service in 2050
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