William Waugh

William L. Waugh, Jr., is Professor Emeritus in Public Management and Policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and an adjunct professor in the Executive Masters of Emergency and Crisis Management at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He taught at Mississippi State University and Kansas State University before joining the public administration and political science faculties at GSU in 1985.

Is Recovery Act a Model for Ebola?

Little did I realize that the future would come so quickly, with President Obama’s announcement that he was appointing Ron Klain as the Ebola Czar! Klain, who was chief of staff for both vice president Al Gore and Joe Biden, was a key player in the implementation of the Recovery Act.

The forum on the Recovery Act, Five Years Later was kicked off by Klain’s former point person, Ed DeSeve, who in 2009 and 2010 led the day-to-day efforts to coordinate the oversight of $787 billion in spending across 26 major federal agencies via more than 200 programs.