Board of Advisors

The W&M Public Policy Board of Advisors is comprised of distinguished public policy practitioners and other accomplished individuals. Board members are selected based on eminent professional achievement, personal interest in the discipline of public policy, and demonstrated ability to help W&M Public Policy further its mission to improve public policy analysis, evaluation, and formulation within state, national and international entities. Thanks in part to the leadership from past advisors (and, of course, our outstanding faculty and students!), W&M Public Policy now ranks among the most selective in the country.

Executive Committee

President - Christian Klein
1st Vice President - Theresa Whelan
2nd Vice President - Sam Feder
Nominations Chair - Christian Klein
Ex-Officio - Elaine McBeth, Program Director
Ex-Officio - Kurt Klingenberger, Alumni Association President

Members

Ellen Allen (BA '81), Chair, Plymouth County Advisory Board, Town of Norway (ret.)
Christian Bale (BA '14, MPP '15), Attorney at MoloLamken LLP
Menuka Ban (MPP '16), Senior Manager, Quantitative Economics & Statistics at EY
Jeffrey Coughlin (BA '96), Senior Director, Federal & State Affairs, HIMSS
Katherine Darke Schmitt (BA '91, MPP '93), Deputy Director, Office for Victims of Crime
Paul Decker (BA '83), President and CEO, Mathematica
Sam Feder (BA '92), Partner, Jenner & Block LLP
Thomas Gates (BA '05), Budget Officer, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Ashley Gray (MPP '14), Onyx Rose Advisors, Founder and CEO
Rosemary Harold (BA '80), Enforcement Bureau Chief, FCC (ret.)
Natalie Farr Harrison (BA '03), Consultant at Subject Matter
Charlie Iovino (BA '76), Senior Policy Advisor, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck (ret.)
Jeff Jaeckel (BA '95), Co-Chair, Global Antitrust Practice, Morrison & Foerster LLP
Christian Klein (BA '92), Partner, Obadal, Filler, MacLeod & Klein, PLC
Kurt Klingenberger (MPP/MBA '16), Deputy Division Chief, U.S. Air Force
Brett Levanto (MPP '09), VP of Operations, Obadel, Filler, MacLeod & Klein, PLC
David Limbrick, Jr. (BA '92), Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery, WUSTL
Elaine McBeth, ex-officio, Director, W&M Public Policy
Chris Marquez (BA '94), President & CEO, National Capitol Contracting, LLC
Edward Normand (BA '92), Partner, Roche Freedman
John Osborn (BA '79), Senior Advisor, Hogan Lovells US LLP
David Oxenford (BA '77), Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP
Robert Saunders (BS '00), Senior Research Director, Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy
Jodi Scarlata (BA '83), Advisor, International Monetary Fund
Michael Sydla (BA '95), Command Information Officer, Naval Sea Systems Command
Jeffrey Trammell (BA '73), ex-officio, President, Trammell & Company
Robert Trice, Jr (BA '68), Sr. Vice President Business Development, Lockheed Martin (ret.)
Paul Verkuil (BA '61), ex-officio, Former President at the College of W&M
Theresa Whelan (BA '87), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense
Shannon White-Benson (MPP '08), Contracting Officer, USAID
Drew Willison (BA '88), Partner, Oldaker & Willison