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Bill Valdez is president of the Senior Executive Association (SEA). He sets SEA’s overall strategic direction and is focused on strengthening the Senior Executive Service (SES) through legislative and policy initiatives, building a leadership pipeline for the Executive Branch, and establishing SEA as a thought leader in the Washington, D.C., policy debates that impact all civil service employees.Bill retired from federal service as a career Senior Executive in July 2014. His career with the U.S. Department of Energy spanned more than 20 years and he has extensive knowledge in the areas of R&D portfolio analysis and evaluation, energy/environmental technologies and policies, small business development, supply chain analysis, science and engineering workforce development, budget planning and execution, diversity and equal opportunity issues, science policy, human capital processes and policies, procurement processes and policies, corporate and strategic planning, and contract management.Bill is an Adjunct Faculty at American University’s School of Public Affairs, where he specializes in Federal government evaluation and strategic planning and is a co-editor of “The Handbook of Federal Government Leadership and Administration,” which was published in November 2016.

Bill Valdez

July 2017 - The Public Manager

With political appointees slowly trickling into agency leadership positions, the career professionals in the Senior Executive Service face new challenges.

The SES: A Linchpin in Executive Branch Reform

A survey by the Senior Executives Association and Deloitte suggests that the federal government in the midst of a leadership crisis.

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