Donald F. Kettl (PhD, Yale University) is Stanley I. Sheerr Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also Director of the Fels Institute of Government and Professor of Political Science. Kettl is a student of public policy and public management and specializes in the management of public organizations. A columnist for Governing magazine, he also has regularly appeared on national television and contributed to op-ed pages in major newspapers. Kettl is the author or editor of a dozen books and monographs, including: System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics; The Global Public Management Revolution, 2nd ed.; The Politics of the Administrative Process (with James W. Fesler), 3 rd ed.; The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for the 21st Century and Leadership at the Fed. He has twice won the Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration for the best book published in public administration. Kettl has consulted broadly for government organizations at all levels, in the United States and abroad. He is a fellow of Phi Beta Kappa and the National Academy of Public Administration.

Seth Klempner is a graduate student in the Fels School at Penn. He oversees the construction of the Pennsylvania Policy Database expenditures dataset, which will track all state spending since 1979 to the present.