William D. Eggers

For the professional golfer, see Bill Eggers.

William Daniel Eggers (born February 14, 1967)^[1] is an American writer, researcher, policy analyst, and government and management consultant.^[2] Eggers has worked in government reform for more than two decades.

William D. Eggers
Eggers in June 2009
Born	(1967-02-14) February 14, 1967 (age 57) New York City, U.S.
Other names	Bill Eggers
Education	University of California, San Diego
Occupation(s)	Writer, researcher, policy analyst, government consultant, management consultant
Known for	Business, federal government policy
Relatives	Dave Eggers (brother)
Awards	Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (2006) Louis Brownlow Award (2005) APEX Award for excellence in business journalism (2002) Roe Award(1996) Sir Anthony Fisher Award (1996)

Early life and education

Eggers was born in 1967 in New York City, and grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He is the brother of author Dave Eggers. He attended the University of California, San Diego.

Career

He is a former appointee to the Office of Management and Budget's Performance Measurement Advisory Commission and the former Project Director for the Texas Performance Review and e-Texas initiative. He also served as a Commissioner for the Texas Incentive and Productivity Commission and a designee on the Texas Council on Competitive Government.

He was a former senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think tank,^[3][4] and the former director of government reform at Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank.^[5]

Eggers is currently the Director of the Public Sector Research Group at Deloitte, where he is responsible for research.^[6][7]

Books

• Revolution at the Roots: Making our Government Smaller, Better and Closer to Home (with John O'Leary). The Free Press, 1995. ISBN 0-02-874027-0
• Governing by Network: The New Shape of the Public Sector (with Stephen Goldsmith). Brookings Institution Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-8157-3129-0
• Government 2.0: Using Technology to Improve Education, Cut Red Tape, Reduce Gridlock and Enhance Democracy. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7425-4176-4
• States of Transition: Tackling Government's Toughest Policy and Management Challenges (with Robert Campbell). Deloitte Research, 2006. ISBN 978-0-9790611-0-3
• If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government, Harvard Business Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4221-6636-9
• Public Innovator's Playbook: Nurturing Bold Ideas in Government (with Shalabh Singh). Deloitte Research, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9790611-1-0
• Pay for Success (with Paul Macmillan). Ethos Journal, December 2013
• The Solution Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society's Toughest Problems (with Paul Macmillan). Harvard Business Review Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1422192191
• Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government. Deloitte University Press and Rosetta Books, 2016. ISBN 978-0795347511

References

1. "Eggers, William D." VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File.
2. Lozada, Carlos (January 8, 2014). "Two Books Say We Can Save The World. Here's How". Newspapers.com. The Capital Times. p. 16. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
3. Twiddy, David (August 12, 2001). "Tooting The Horn of e-Government Isn't Easy". Newspapers.com. Tallahassee Democrat. p. 17. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
4. "William D. Eggers". Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012.
5. "The Gift That Stops Giving". Newspapers.com. The Baltimore Sun. August 2, 1993. p. 47. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
6. Johnson, Cecil (September 16, 2013). "Business Books". Newspapers.com. Fort Worth Star-Telegram. p. B6. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
7. Lipowicz, Alice (January 23, 2012). "Can 'disruptive technologies' reduce the government's price of intel?". Federal Computer Week. Archived from the original on March 11, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2021.