Selling in the Government Market

Steve Kelman is the Weatherhead Professor of Public Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he has taught and done research for almost 40 years. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, with a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University, he is the author of many books and articles on the policymaking process and on improving the management of government organizations. From 1993 through 1997, Dr. Kelman served as Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy in the Office of Management and Budget. During his tenure as Administrator, he played a lead role in the “reinventing government” effort, including the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. In 2001, he received the Herbert Roback Memorial Award, the highest achievement award of the National Contract Management Association. In 2003 he was elected as a Director of The Procurement Roundtable, and he was inducted in 2007 into the Government Computer News Hall of Fame. He writes a weekly blog called The Lectern, which is regularly one of the most downloaded links on the FCW.com site.