Talent,
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Loren DeJonge Schulman is a Senior Advisor for Government Capacity with FAS and she recently launched Future State, an initiative focused on rebuilding and reimagining a government that delivers for Americans.
Until January 2025 she served as the White House Office of Management and Budget’s Associate Director for Performance and Personnel Management, where she drove Administration priorities in customer experience, workforce transformation, evidence-based policymaking, permitting, and public engagement. Before OMB, Loren was Vice President at the Partnership for Public Service, leading research and developing data-driven solutions to critical government challenges. Her public service career began as a Presidential Management Fellow, followed by a decade at the Department of Defense and the National Security Council managing national security strategy, budget, and crisis response. After leaving government in 2015, she led research efforts at the Center for a New American Security to elevate the national security debate and prepare the national security leaders of today and tomorrow. Loren is adjunct professor with Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program and a “serial” podcast host, including her new show “Sirens: a Bombshell Production.”
Her work on democratic accountability, national security decision-making, and public trust has been widely published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic . Raised in Texas, she received her Bachelor of Arts in political science and international studies from Trinity University and her Master in Public Policy from the University of Minnesota, and today lives in Washington, DC, with her family.