Elaine C. Kamarck

• Director, Visions of Governance for the Twenty-First Century
  Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Studied at Bryn Mawr; PhD in Political Science, University of California at Berkeley. Former: positions in three Democratic Presidential campaigns and the Democratic National Committee; Senior Fellow, Progressive Policy Institute. 1988-92, Columnist, Newsday and The Los Angeles Times. 1993-97, Senior Policy Adviser to the Vice-President of the United States, Al Gore; created the National Performance Review. Also managed the Vice-President's Commission on Airline Safety and Security and served on President Clinton's welfare reform task force.