Dr. Lynn Ross is the Faculty Director of the Master of Policy Management Program at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. In 2014, she received the McCourt School's Leslie Whittington Award for excellence in teaching. Dr. Ross trains new Foreign Service Officers on effective communication at the U.S. State Department's National Foreign Affairs Training Center, has trained aspiring executives through the U.S. Department of Defense's Senior Leader Development Program, and has led seminars for federal Senior Executives through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's Federal Executive Institute. She is also a frequent speaker for international audiences. Before returning to academe, Dr. Ross worked for the U.S. Federal Government for almost 15 years. She served in the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 1994-2001 and graduated from OMB’s Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program in 2000. She started her Federal career as a Presidential Management Fellow with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), where she served as a personnel management specialist and as a budget officer. Dr. Ross has had experience working on Capitol Hill with a Senate Committee, as well as with the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense. She has received more than a dozen professional awards in government for outstanding service and special achievement. Dr. Ross holds a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton, a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in American Government from Georgetown University.