Government Analytics Breakfast (GAB) Forum

Name: Government Analytics Breakfast (GAB) Forum
Start: 2018-06-12
End: 2018-06-12
Location: Johns Hopkins University

On June 12th, REI Systems and Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Advanced Governmental Studies will host a Government Analytics Breakfast (GAB) Forum at the Johns Hopkins Washington D.C. Center. We are bringing together professionals from government, academia, and the corporate community to discuss how government analytics can enable real-world successes and support learning of critical lessons from actual experience.

Join Tom Brandt, Chief Risk Officer of the Internal Revenue Service, and President-Elect of the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management (AFERM), for a discussion of some of the top risks facing government and a look at how analytics can be applied at each stage of ERM, including risk identification, evaluation, and assessment, to the determination and selection of risk responses, and risk monitoring and reporting. Tom will also discuss the use of Key Risk Indicators as well as the IRS’s Risk Acceptance Form & Tool (RAFT), which is used to help facilitate and document the consideration of risk in business decision-making in the context of the agency’s risk appetite. The RAFT was highlighted in GAO’s 2016 ERM Report of Good Practices in Managing Risk.

Agenda

8:30-8:45am: Registration & Breakfast

8:45-8:55am: Welcome

8:55-9:25am: Tom Brandt, Chief Risk Officer, IRS

9:25-9:55am: Q&A and Discussion

9:55-10:00am: Closing

Register for the onsite event here.

If you are interested but cannot attend in-person, register for the livestream event here.

If you have any questions, please email bailey.lucero-carter@reisystems.com.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Tom Brandt, Chief Risk Officer, IRS

Thomas (Tom) Brandt serves as the IRS’s Chief Risk Officer. He leads the agency’s enterprise risk management program, enabling the identification, prioritization, evaluation and mitigation of key risks to achieving the IRS mission. Previously, Tom was the Director of Planning, Analysis, Inventory and Research in the IRS’s Large Business and International Division, with responsibility for the Division’s workload selection and compliance risk identification programs. He has held various other positions at the IRS in the areas of planning, performance management, and evaluation.

In 2016, Tom served as the Head of the Tax Administration Unit at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France where he led the work of the Forum on Tax Administration (FTA), a unique body that brings together the leaders of tax administrations from 50 countries to identify, discuss and influence relevant global trends and develop new ideas to enhance tax administration around the world.
From 2005-2007, Tom worked for Maricopa County, Arizona where he coordinated the County’s Managing for Results program. He has also provided tax administration advisory and capacity building assistance to numerous tax administrations through projects of the International Monetary Fund and OECD.

Tom earned his master’s degree in public administration from American University in Washington, D.C. and his bachelor’s degree in political science from the State University of New York at Geneseo.