Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board
The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board was an agency of the United States federal government, which managed the Recovery.gov website and oversaw spending under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Recovery.gov was the U.S. government’s official website that provided easy access to data related to Recovery Act spending and allowed for the reporting of potential fraud, waste, and abuse.
Members
The following served as members of the RAT Board. The board existed from February 23, 2009 to September 30, 2015.- Earl Devaney, Inspector General of the Department of the Interior and Chair
- *Mary Kendall, Acting Inspector General of the Department of the Interior
- Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General of the Department of Justice
- *Cynthia Schnedar, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Justice
- *Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General of the Department of Justice
- Phyllis Fong, Inspector General of the Department of Agriculture
- Gregory Friedman, Inspector General of the Department of Energy
- J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration of the Internal Revenue Service
- Gordon S. Heddell, Inspector General of the Department of Defense
- *Lynne Halbrooks, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Defense
- *Jon Rymer, Inspector General of the Department of Defense
- Daniel Levinson, Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services
- Mary Mitchelson, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Education
- *Kathleen Tighe, Inspector General of the Department of Education and Chair
- Calvin Scovel, Inspector General of the Department of Transportation and Vice Chair
- Richard Skinner, Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security and Vice Chair
- *Charles Edwards, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security
- *Carlton Mann, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security
- *John Roth, Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security
- Eric Thorson, Inspector General of the Department of the Treasury
- Todd Zinser, Inspector General of the Department of Commerce
- *Morgan Kim, Inspector General of the Department of Commerce
Advisory Panel
- Steven Koch, a vice chairman and co-chairman of Credit Suisse's Mergers and Acquisitions Group, based in Chicago;
- Chris Sale, vice president for development finance at CHF International;
- Malcolm Sparrow, professor of the practice of public management at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University;
- Edward Tufte, professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University.
Government Accountability and Transparency Board
- Dick Ginman, Director of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy and GAT Board Chair
- Earl Devaney, Inspector General of the Department of the Interior and Acting Chair
- Ash Carter, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
- W. Scott Gould, Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- Allison Lerner, Inspector General of the National Science Foundation
- Daniel Levinson, Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services
- Ellen Murray, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Financial Resources and Chief Financial Officer
- Calvin Scovel, Inspector General of the Department of Transportation
- Kathleen Tighe, Inspector General of the Department of Education
- Daniel Werfel, Controller of the Office of Management and Budget
- David Williams, Inspector General of the Postal Service and Vice Chair
- Neal S. Wolin, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury