U.S. Government

Fred Thompson is a specialist in government budgeting and accounting. He currently teaches at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management atWillamette University, where he is Grace and Elmer Goudy Professor of Public Management and Policy Analysis. He previously taught in Columbia University appointments at UCLA of British Columbia. Professor Thompson has held senior staff positions with the Economic Council of Canada and the Department of Finance of the State of California.

An internationally recognized expert in the field of drug policy, Dr. John Carnevale has served three administrations and four ?Drug Czars? within the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. At the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), he directed the formulation of the President?s National Drug Control Strategy as well as the federal drug control budget. Dr. Carnevale is recognized as the key architect of the Performance Measures of Effectiveness (PME) System which ONDCP used to determine progress towards national goals and objectives.