Event Chairs

The series is chaired by top executives from our sponsor organizations. Below you’ll find brief biographies about each them.

Judy Feder
Dean, Georgetown Public Policy Institute

Judy Feder is Professor and Dean of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and was the 2006 Democratic nominee for Congress in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District. She is one of the nation's leaders in health policy--most particularly, in efforts to understand and improve the nation's health insurance system. A widely published scholar, her three decades of policy research began at the Brookings Institution, continued at the Urban Institute, and, since 1984, has flourished at Georgetown University. Her expertise on the uninsured, Medicare, Medicaid, and long-term care is regularly drawn upon by members of Congress, Executive officials, and the national media.

Feder has also held leadership policy positions, both in the Congress and in the Executive Branch. As staff director of the congressional Pepper Commission (chaired by Senator John D. Rockefeller IV), Feder is widely credited with setting the stage for the health reform debate of the 1990s. In 1993, she was appointed to the Department of Health and Human Services, where she worked to expand health insurance coverage, effectively manage Medicare and Medicaid, and assure the safety of food and drugs.

Feder today pursues her policy leadership first and foremost by educating future policy leaders at Georgetown’s Public Policy Institute. She continues her research as co-director (with Sheila Burke) of the Georgetown University Long-term Care Financing Project and as senior advisor to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.

Feder is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the National Academy of Social Insurance; a former chair and board member of AcademyHealth; a board member of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and the Center for American Progress Action Fund Committee. She is also a member of the National Research Council’s Standing Committee on Research and Evidentiary Standards, the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowships Program Advisory Board, and the Hamilton Project’s Advisory Council.

Feder is a political scientist, with a B.A. from Brandeis University (1968) and a Master's (1970) and Ph.D. (1977) from Harvard University.

Jerry Briggs
Managing Director of Accenture’s Government Practice

Jerry Briggs is the Managing Director for the U.S. Government practice. Previously, he was the Senior Executive Vice President in Accenture’s defense practice and is the responsible for Accenture’s relationship with the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency, including the Business Systems Modernization program. In his 21 years with Accenture, Mr. Briggs has spent the last 11 years focused in the U.S. Department of Defense.

During his tenure in the defense practice, Mr. Briggs has utilized his experience in supply chain and logistics modernization, working on programs with the Air Force, Marine Corps, and Army before joining the DLA BSM program in August 2000.

Mr. Briggs is recognized for his expertise in large program management, establishing rigor and discipline into large modernization programs. In addition to his work with DoD, Mr. Briggs conducts quality assurance reviews with several large supply chain modernization programs underway at Accenture.

Mr. Briggs received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University. Mr. Briggs resides in Upper Arlington, Ohio and is the proud father of two sons, ages 10 and 9.