Linda Bilmes Public Disclosure

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Transparent Engagement

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Outside Professional Activities For Linda Bilmes

1. Organization Name:

US Department of Defense, Joint Task Force, National Capital Region - Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, (IAP)

Sector: National Military Medicine - providing medical care to wounded warriors and service members and families

Specific Role: Writing a case study on the consolidation of Walter Reed National Army Hospital and Bethesda Naval Hospital (historical consultant)

Dates of relationship: Beginning May 2012 through present

2. NAME:

US Department of Interior National Parks Service Advisory Board

SECTOR: US Federal Government

Specific Role: Serve on 12-person official advisory board to the US National Parks Service (appointed to consecutive 4-year term by the US Secretary of the Interior)

Dates: 2010 -present

3. NAME: US Department of Labor Advisory Committee on Veterans Training, Employment and Outreach

Sector: US Federal government, veterans

Specific role: Serve on advisory committee to US Department of Labor Office of Veterans Affairs, related to employment and training for military veterans (appointed by Secretary of Labor)

Dates: 2011 -present

4. GRANTS/ OUTSIDE INCOME

Turner Foundation (PI on grant for national parks research)
Bechtel Foundation (PI on grant for national parks research)
National Parks Foundation (PI on grant for national parks research)
Oxford University Blavatnik School of Government (teaching a course)
Brookings Institution (book royalties)
Norton Publishers (book royalties)
Boston Globe (regular contributor)
Cognoscenti (WBUR) regular contributor

5. UNPAID ADVISORY ROLES:

I am involved in an advisory capacity or board member of the following organizations:

Economists for Peace and Security (board member)
City of Newton, MA (advisor)
City of Boston (advisor)
City of Somerville, MA (advisor)
Commission on Devolution in Wales (advisor)
US Department of Veterans Affairs (advisory committee on policy)
LAM Foundation (charity)
National Academy of Public Administration
Council on Foreign Relations