FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 22, 2008
Contact: Kristin Esham
202-775-9111
DAVID WALKER, FORMER COMPTROLLER GENERALTO JOIN PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD
WASHINGTON – The Partnership for Public Service today announced that David Walker is joining its Board of Directors. Walker served as Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office for nearly 10 years prior to his recent appointment to be President and Chief Executive Officer of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
In welcoming Walker to the board, Max Stier, Partnership for Public Service president said, “David Walker represents public service at its best. He’s intelligent, tenacious, honest and 100 percent committed to doing right by the American people. I know he will do great things in his new position as the head of the Peter Peterson Foundation, and I am proud to welcome him to the Partnership’s board.”
Walker joins Partnership for Public Service Founder Samuel J. Heyman, chairman, International Specialty Products; Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service; Tom Bernstein, president of Chelsea Piers Management, Inc.; John Bridgeland, chief executive officer of Civic Enterprises; Beth A. Brooke, global vice chair, Ernst & Young; Sheila Burke, faculty research fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and member of the faculty at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, both at Harvard University; Richard Danzig, former U.S. secretary of the Navy; Joel L. Fleishman, professor of law and director, Heyman Center for Ethics, Public Policy, and the Professions; Robert Ingram, vice chairman pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline; Nancy Killefer, senior partner of McKinsey & Company, Inc.; Sean O’Keefe, former NASA administrator; Susan Rice, senior fellow, Brookings Institution; and Cokie Roberts, political commentator for ABC News and senior news analyst for NPR News.
About David Walker: David M. Walker is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. As head of the Peterson Foundation, Walker will lead its efforts to address several key sustainability challenges that threaten the future of both America and Americans. During his tenure as Comptroller General, he led a major transformation effort to improve the visibility, viability and performance of the GAO. As Comptroller General, Walker was an outspoken and non-partisan advocate for addressing the major fiscal and other national sustainability and government transformation challenges facing the United States.
Before his appointment to Comptroller General, Walker had extensive executive level experience in both government and private industry. Between 1989 and 1998, he was a partner and global managing director of the human capital services practice of Arthur Andersen LLP. While a partner at Arthur Andersen, Walker also served as a Public Trustee for Social Security and Medicare. Prior, he was Assistant Secretary of Labor for Pension and Welfare Benefit Programs at the U.S. Department of Labor, and served as Acting Executive Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Walker’s earlier technical, professional, and business experience was with Price Waterhouse, Coopers & Lybrand and Source Services Corporation, an international human resources consulting and search firm.
The Partnership for Public Service works to revitalize the federal government by inspiring a new generation to serve and by transforming the way government works. For more information, visit www.ourpublicservice.org.
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The Partnership for Public Service is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to revitalize our federal government by inspiring a new generation to serve and by transforming the way government works.
