Mike McCord

Mike McCord previously served as Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer in the Obama-Biden administration, where he led the Department’s Recovery Act program and the resourcing of the Ebola response in 2014, and was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service by four Secretaries of Defense. Prior to his service as Comptroller and Deputy Comptroller of the Department of Defense, he served for over two decades on the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and with the House Budget Committee and the Congressional Budget Office. McCord is currently Director of Civil-Military Programs at the Stennis Center for Public Service, an adjunct research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, a Trustee of The Aerospace Corporation, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He also served on the Biden-Harris Defense Agency Review Team and as a member of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy for the United States. He earned a B.A. degree with honors from the Ohio State University and a M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.