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O'Keefe and Wu Tagged for NASA, TA Posts
The President has nominated Sean O'Keefe to be Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. O'Keefe replaces Daniel Goldin, who resigned last month.
O'Keefe is currently the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Previously he served as the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy at the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Additionally, he served as the Director of National Security Studies which provides executive education programs for senior military and civilian Department of Defense managers.
Before joining Syracuse University, O'Keefe was Professor of Business Administration and Assistant to the Senior Vice President for Research and Graduate Education at Pennsylvania State University. He received an undergraduate degree from Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and a Master's degree in Public Administration from The Maxwell School at Syracuse University.
In other news, Tuesday's People Column for Technology Daily reported that Phil Bond, undersecretary for the Technology Administration in the Department of Commerce, has named Ben Wu to serve as deputy undersecretary. Wu has been serving as counsel at the House Science Environment, Technology and Standards Subcommittee since 2000. Before joining the subcommittee, Wu served on the House Y2K Task Force and on the staff of Rep. Constance Morella, R-Md.