Presidential risk assessment
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Office of Management and Budget official John Graham endeavors to bring in outside expertise in risk assessment as a part of the administration's performance-based management system. Graham, OMB's administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, "is a leading expert in the nation on decision sciences in risk assessment and cost benefit analysis," according to OMB's Paul Noe at the Washington Legal Foundation, June 4. OIRA "is traditionally an office dominated by economists and [Graham] is trying to expand and deepen our expertise." Risk assessment has taken on more emphasis since the appointment of Acting FDA Director Lester Crawford, who views his role to be "risk manager" (1"The Gray Sheet" April 22, 2002, p. 5)...