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REXBURG,
Idaho — NASA
Administrator Sean O’Keefe will speak at Brigham Young
University-Idaho Thursday, Sept. 18, at 2
p.m. in the Taylor Chapel as part of the annual Brady Howell
Lecture Series.
This
will be the second lecture in an endowed series honoring the Ricks
College alumnus and Sugar
City native, who died Sept. 11, 2001, in the attack on
the Pentagon. The forum is open to the public and will also be aired live
over KBYI, 100.5 FM.
The
series, which is made possible from contributions from throughout the
country, was established by Howell’s widow, Liz Howell, and other
members of his family.
O’Keefe
and Brady Howell became good friends when they were both at Syracuse
University. O’Keefe was a
visiting professor at the time and Howell was a graduate student.
Nominated
by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, O'Keefe was
appointed by the president as the 10th administrator of NASA on Dec. 21, 2001. As administrator,
O'Keefe leads the NASA team and manages its resources, as NASA seeks to
advance exploration and discovery in aeronautics and space technologies.
O'Keefe
joined the Bush Administration on Inauguration Day and served as the deputy
director of the Office of Management and Budget and deputy assistant to the
president until December 2001, overseeing the preparation, management and
administration of the federal budget and government wide-management
initiatives across the Executive Branch.
Prior
to joining the Bush Administration, O'Keefe was the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy, an
endowed chair at the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and
Public Affairs. He also served as the director of National Security
Studies, a partnership of Syracuse
University and Johns
Hopkins University,
for delivery of executive education programs for senior military and
civilian Department of Defense managers. Appointed to these positions in
1996, he was previously professor of business administration and assistant
to the Senior vice president for research and dean of the graduate school
at the Pennsylvania State
University.
Appointed
as the Secretary of the Navy in July 1992 by President George Bush, O'Keefe
previously served as comptroller and chief financial officer of the
Department of Defense since 1989. Before joining Defense Secretary Dick
Cheney's Pentagon management team in these capacities, he served on the
U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations staff for eight years, and was
staff director of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. His public
service began in 1978 upon selection as a presidential management intern.
O'Keefe
is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and has served
as chair of an academy panel on investigative practices. He was a visiting
scholar at the Wolfson
College of the University
of Cambridge in the United
Kingdom, a member of the Naval
Postgraduate School's
civil-military relations seminar team for emerging democracies and has
conducted seminars for the Strategic Studies Group at Oxford
University. He served on the
national security panel to devise the 1988 Republican platform and was a
member of the 1985 Kennedy School of Government program for national
security executives at Harvard University.
In
1993, President Bush and Secretary Cheney presented him the Distinguished
Public Service Award. He was also the recipient of the Department of the
Navy's Public Service Award in December 2000. Sean O'Keefe was the 1999
faculty recipient of the Syracuse University Chancellor's Award for Public
Service. He is the author of several journal articles, contributing author
of "Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future," released
in October 2000, and in 1998, co-authored "The Defense Industry in the
Post-Cold War Era: Corporate Strategies and Public Policy Perspectives."
O'Keefe
earned his bachelor of arts in 1977 from Loyola
University in New
Orleans and his master of public administration
degree in 1978 from The Maxwell School.
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