William D. Eggers
William Daniel Eggers is an American writer, researcher, policy analyst, and government and management consultant. Eggers has worked in government reform for more than two decades.
Early life and education
Eggers was born in 1967 in New York City, and grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He is the brother of author Dave Eggers. He attended the University of California, San Diego.Career
He is a former appointee to the Office of Management and Budget's Performance Measurement Advisory Commission and the former Project Director for the Texas Performance Review and e-Texas initiative. He also served as a Commissioner for the Texas Incentive and Productivity Commission and a designee on the Texas Council on Competitive Government.He was a former senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think tank, and the former director of government reform at Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank.
Eggers is currently the Director of the Public Sector Research Group at Deloitte, where he is responsible for research.
Books
- Revolution at the Roots: Making our Government Smaller, Better and Closer to Home. The Free Press, 1995.
- Governing by Network: The New Shape of the Public Sector. Brookings Institution Press, 2004.
- Government 2.0: Using Technology to Improve Education, Cut Red Tape, Reduce Gridlock and Enhance Democracy. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
- States of Transition: Tackling Government's Toughest Policy and Management Challenges. Deloitte Research, 2006.
- If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government, Harvard Business Press, 2009.
- Public Innovator's Playbook: Nurturing Bold Ideas in Government. Deloitte Research, 2009.
- Pay for Success., December 2013
- The Solution Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society's Toughest Problems. Harvard Business Review Press, 2013.
- Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government. Deloitte University Press and Rosetta Books, 2016.