Gary D. Bass

Gary D. Bass is the founder and executive director of OMB Watch, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that promotes greater government accountability and transparency and increased citizen participation in public policy decisions. Bass has been selected as one of the NonProfit Times Power and Influence Top 50 for each of the past 10 years. In 2007, he was selected as one of the Federal 100—the top executives from government, industry, and academia who had the greatest impact on the government information systems community. In addition to his role at OMB Watch, Bass is an affiliated associate professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute and also teaches in the Nonprofit Management Executive Certificate program at Georgetown's Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership. Bass received a combined doctorate in psychology and education from the University of Michigan.