مؤلف: W. Scott Gould

Linda Bilmes is a lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has served as CFO and assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Commerce and as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. Her work on the costs of the Iraq War (with Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz) and on veterans issues have received widespread national coverage. W. Scott Gould is vice president, public sector strategy and growth, at IBM Global Business Services. He has also served as CFO and assistant secretary for administration at the Department of Commerce. Gould is also a captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve (Ret.) and a former White House fellow.