Lloyd Blanchard, Ph.D.
Director Public Performance Management
As a reformer advancing the President’s Management Agenda, the aggressive strategy for improving the management of the Federal government, Dr. Lloyd Blanchard has the academic and practical knowledge of how public programs and agencies can improve performance outcomes, even when budgets are tight.
Dr. Blanchard is a former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Associate Director who oversaw close to $200 billion of federal program budgets. He helped implement the Performance Assessment Rating Tool (PART) and other performance management efforts for many federal agencies, including the Treasury Department, Housing and Urban Development, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Transportation, Department of Justice, and General Services Administration
Dr. Blanchard served as the Deputy Chief Financial Officer for Policy at NASA, where he led the space agency’s effort to become the first federal agency to achieve success in performance budgeting reform. Prior to joining NASA, he served as Chief Operating Officer of the Small Business Administration, where he oversaw national operations and led the agency’s transformation initiative.
During his academic career, Dr. Blanchard taught at Syracuse University, the University of Washington, and LSU. At Syracuse, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration as well as a Senior Research Associate in the university’s Center for Policy Research at The Maxwell School. At LSU, he was Vice Provost for Fiscal Management in the Office of Academic Affairs and Executive Director of the National Center for Security Research and Training, where he oversaw homeland security training facilities with over $40 million in annual grant support.
Dr. Blanchard has published a number of scholarly articles on performance budgeting and education finance, and is a regular speaker for the National League of Cities’ Leadership Training Institute, where he translates research findings on economic development and performance management into prescriptive strategies for local officials.
Dr. Blanchard holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration, a Masters in Public Administration, and Bachelor degrees in political science and in economics.
