Mark Robbins
MEMBER SINCE: 2013
Member, U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. Former General Counsel, U.S. Election Assistance Commission; Consultant, IDS International; Senior Rule of Law Advisor, Babil Provincial Reconstruction Team, Iraq, U.S. Department of State; Executive Director, Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board, The White House; General Counsel, U.S. Office of Personnel Management; Transition Head, Bush-Cheney Tranistion Team; Attorney at Law, ACE USA Property, Casualty & Reins, Co.; Attorney at Law, Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft LLP; Attorney at Law, Belin Rawlings & Badal; Attorney at Law, Pepper Hamilton LLP; Deputy Associate Director, Presidential Personnel, The White House; Legislative Assistant, U.S. House of Representatives.
History of Employment
Primary Policy Areas
Civil Rights and Liberties, Foreign Policy, Labor/Workforce Training and RecruitmentLabor, Pensions
Primary Sector of Expertise
Federal
Primary Functions
Human Capital, Intergovernmental, Organizational Structure/Design/Development, Performance Measurement, Procurement and Acquisition
Management Matters Podcast
How To Support the Election Workforce in the 2022 Election
Season: 1 Episode:129 | October 03, 2022
Show Notes:
On this episode, we are joined by our Election Integrity Working Group, made up of Academy Fellows Nancy Tate, Co-chair of the Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative, Mark Robbins, Interim Executive Director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Barry Van Lare, an Independent Consultant of Management and Public Policy, and Edie Goldenberg, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. They discuss the growing issue of disinformation regarding our electoral system, the rise in threats towards election workers, and what Fellows can do to uphold our country's electoral integrity.
This podcast episode was adapted from a webinar discussion that took place on September 29th. If you would like to watch the webinar, you can find it here.
Academic Resources mentioned:
- ESRA Annual Meetings
- ESRA 2021: https://electionlab.mit.edu/events/esra-2021
- Democracy Fund’s “Idea Page”
- Annual surveys of local election officials
- Election Law Journal
- Journal of Democracy
- MIT Election Data Lab
- U of Wisconsin-Madison’s Elections Research Center
- Reed College’s Elections & Voting Center
Please access NAPA’s Election Resources at the 2022 Election Integrity Platform webpage, under our Grand Challenges tab.