Shared Services Governance Board

Eric Ueland

Deputy Director for Management

Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Eric M. Ueland serves as the Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget.

In 2020, Mr. Ueland was chosen to be a Senior Advisor for the Bureau of International Organization Affairs at the Department of State, soon advancing to become the Bureau’s Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary. He was also nominated to be the next Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights. Mr Ueland also served as the Director of the Office of U.S. Foreign Assistance Resources, an Assistant Secretary equivalent. He was appointed to this position on October 1, 2018. As Director, Mr. Ueland managed the Department of State foreign assistance budget.

Mr. Ueland has a long and extensive history of service in the United States Congress and the private sector handling significant policy, political, and procedural matters on behalf of various Senators, members of Congress, officials in the White House and throughout the executive branch, and corporations and trade associations. He has served as a senior strategy officer at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), supporting the leadership of MCC as it developed and implemented priorities at the direction of its management and Board of Directors. Mr. Ueland also served as Staff Director and Senior Advisor on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee for over four years. Prior to joining the Budget Committee, he was Vice President of the Duberstein Group in Washington, DC. Earlier in his career, Mr. Ueland was a staffer in the U.S. Senate for 18 years, where he served as Chief of Staff to two members of the Senate leadership, among several other roles.

He is a native of Portland, Oregon, and earned a B.A. in History from the University of San Francisco.

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