William Eggers is the Global Director for Deloitte Research, where he is responsible for research and thought leadership for Deloitte’s Public Sector practice.

William is a former appointee to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s Performance Measurement Advisory Commission and the former Project Director for the Texas Performance Review/e-Texas initiative. The two performance reviews William was involved in identified over $2.5 billion worth of savings and non-tax revenues for the state. More than 60 percent of the recommendations in the reviews were enacted into law. William also served as a Commissioner for the Texas Incentive and Productivity Commission and a designee on the Texas Council on Competitive Government.

Willliam is a former senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and the former director of Government Reform at the Reason Public Policy Institute, a Los Angeles-based think tank. A nationally recognized expert on government reform, William is the 1996 winner of the prestigious Roe Award for leadership and innovation in public policy research and the 2002 APEX award for excellence in business journalism.

He is one of the country’s best known authorities on government reform. An author, a columnist, and popular speaker for two decades, William has built a significant following among public sector thought leaders in America and overseas. His columns in Governing and Public CIO and feature articles in Government Executive regularly reach more than 100,000 readers. He is a sought after speaker, giving close to 100 speeches a year.

He is the author of numerous books on government reform including:

• States of Transition: Tackling Government’s Toughest Policy and Management Challenges (Deloitte Research, 2006)
• Government 2.0: Using Technology to Improve Education, Cut Red Tape, Reduce Gridlock and Enhance Democracy (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005)
• Governing by Network: The New Shape of the Public Sector (Brookings, 2004 with Stephen Goldsmith), winner of the National Academy of Public Administration’s 2005 Louis Brownlow Award for best book on public management.
• Revolution at the Roots: Making our Government Smaller, Better and Closer to Home (The Free Press, 1995 with John O’Leary), winner of the 1996 Sir Anthony Fisher Award.

Prior to joining the Reason Foundation, William assisted reformers in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union with the transition from socialist to free-market economies as a policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

William has advised dozens of cities, states and foreign countries and trained hundreds of public officials on restructuring government. He has advised dozens of governments around the world and his commentary has appeared in dozens of major media outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, San Francisco Chronicle and Orange County Register. William graduated magna cum laude from the University of California at San Diego.

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