Bio

Andy Feldman’s focus is helping public organizations use evidence, data, strategy and innovation to strengthen their results, as well as on evidence-based strategies to fight poverty and expand opportunity. In 2021, he launched the Center for Results-Focused Leadership, LLC, to help public agencies tackle their high-priority challenges.

His previous experience includes:

  • Director, Grant Thornton, where he helped create and lead the Planning, Evidence and Performance team
  • Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution, Center for Children and Families
  • Special Advisor, Evidence Team, White House Office of Management and Budget, Obama Administration, including a year detail at the U.S. Department of Education
  • One of the top three appointed leaders at Wisconsin’s labor department, an agency of 1,600
  • Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle
  • Special Assistant to the Secretary of Administration and Finance, Massachusetts
  • Staff Economist, White House Council of Economic Advisors, Clinton Administration
  • Special Assistant to the President, MDRC, a leading nonprofit program evaluation firm

Andy has taught public management courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Singapore and the Harvard Kennedy School. His book What Works in Work-First Welfare (Upjohn Institute Press) examines why some welfare-to-work programs are better than others at helping people become and stay employed.

A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Andy earned his B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College (1996) and an M.P.P. (2003) and Ph.D. (2007) in public policy from Harvard University. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

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