Loren Schulman

Loren DeJonge Schulman is the Associate Director for Performance and Personnel Management at OMB. She joins OMB from the Partnership for Public Service, where she served as Vice President of Research, Evaluation and Modernizing Government and oversaw thought leadership, capacity building and policy solutions to build a better government and stronger democracy. She began her career in public service as a Presidential Management Fellow and spent a decade in senior staff positions at the Department of Defense and the National Security Council. After leaving government in 2015, she led research efforts at the Center for a New American Security to elevate the national security debate and prepare the national security leaders of today and tomorrow. Loren has served as an adjunct professor with Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program and a “serial” podcast host for the Partnership’s Profiles in Public Service and the War on the Rocks Bombshell podcast. Raised in Texas, she received her Bachelor of Arts in political science and international studies from Trinity University and her master’s in public policy from the University of Minnesota, and today lives in Washington, DC, with her family.