Prior to joining the Bush Administration, O'Keefe
was the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy,
an endowed chair at the Syracuse University Maxwell School of
Citizenship and Public Affairs, Director of National Security
Studies, a partnership of Syracuse University and Johns Hopkins
University, and Professor of Business Administration and Assistant
to the Senior Vice President for Research and Dean of Pennsylvania
State University.
Appointed as the Secretary of the Navy in July
1992 by President George Bush, O'Keefe previously served as Comptroller
and Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Defense, United
States Senate Committee on Appropriations staff, and was Staff
Director of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. In 1993,
President Bush and Secretary Cheney presented him the Distinguished
Public Service Award. He was also the recipient of the Department
of the Navy's Public Service Award in December 2000. Sean O'Keefe
was the 1999 faculty recipient of the Syracuse University Chancellor's
Award for Public Service. He is the author of several journal
articles, contributing author of "Keeping the Edge: Managing
Defense for the Future," released in October 2000, and in
1998, co-authored "The Defense Industry in the Post-Cold
War Era: Corporate Strategies and Public Policy Perspectives."
Sean
O'Keefe earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1977 from Loyola University
in New Orleans, Louisiana, and his Master of Public Administration
degree in 1978 from The Maxwell School.
Cathy
Shields, PR Chair
321-264-8581
Cathleen.e.shields@boeing.com