Douglas Webster

MEMBER SINCE: 2012

Dr. Doug Webster served a 21-year career as an Air Force officer, followed by over two decades of serving in or consulting to the federal government. He has served as Director of government-to-government risk management at USAID, and as CFO of the US Dept. of Labor and the US Dept. of Education. He convened the first cross-agency meeting of federal executives interested in ERM in 2008, leading to the first Federal ERM Summit that year. He was a co-founder of the Association of Federal Enterprise Risk Management in 2011 and served two terms as the association’s founding president. In 2016, Doug was the initial awardee of the AFERM Hall of Fame Award. He has guided ERM implementation in two agencies as a federal employee, and has consulted to over two dozen agencies in the areas of strategic planning, cost and performance management, and ERM. He is a co-author of four books, including Managing Risk and Performance: A Guide for Government Decision Makers in 2014, and Value-Based Management in Government, to be published the Fall of 2019.

History of Employment

Position

Division

Organization

Start

End

Board Treasurer

Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management (AFERM)

2019

Present

Council Member

Gerson Lehrman Group

2020

Present

Principal/ERM Practice Lead

TFC Consulting, Inc.

2021

Present

Senior Advisor

TFC Consulting, Inc.

2019

2021

Chief Financial Officer

U.S. Department of Education

2017

2018

Director

Government to Government Risk Management

USAID

2016

2018

Senior Fellow

Center for Excellence in Public Leadership

George Washington University

2014

2017

Board Member

Pentagon Federal Credit Union

2004

2016

CEO

Cambio Consulting Group

2012

2016

Co-Founder & President

Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management

2011

2013

Partner

Computer Sciences Corporation

2010

2012

Deputy Director

Business Transformation Agency

U.S. Department of Defense

2009

2010

Chief Financial Officer

U.S. Department of Labor

2008

2009

Senior Manager

Global Public Sector

Grant Thornton, LLP

2004

2008

Principal Finance and Management Advisor

Coalition Provisional Authority

Iraqi Ministry of Transportation- Baghdad

2004

Primary Policy Areas

Board Governance, Budget and Finance, Government Operations/Innovation, Small Business

Primary Sector of Expertise

Federal

Primary Functions

Academic Faculty, Academic Research, Budgeting and Finance, Change Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Military Service, Nonprofit / NGO leadership, Organizational Structure/Design/Development, Performance Measurement, Procurement and Acquisition, Risk Management, Strategic Planning

Academy Studies

National Institutes of Health Central Services Organizational Assessment

Agricultural Research Service: Assessing the Merits and Challenges of the Current Participating Agency Service Agreement