About Us
Common Good is a nonpartisan reform coalition with one basic goal—to restore the freedom of officials and citizens to use common sense. We propose practical, bold ideas to simplify bureaucratic structures so that Americans can roll up their sleeves and get things done. Common Good’s philosophy is based on a simple but powerful idea: People, not rules, make things happen.
Common Good was founded in 2002 by Philip K. Howard and respected thought leaders. Our Advisory Board includes former elected officials Bill Bradley, Alan Simpson, and Tom Kean. We work from New York and Washington, D.C.
Our People
Trustees
Philip K. Howard →
Chairman of the Board
Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling
Anthony C. M. Kiser
President, The William & Mary Greve Foundation
John E. Messervey
Founder & CEO, National Family Business Council
James O’Shaughnessy
Chairman & CEO, O’Shaughnessy Asset Management
Alan Siegel (Emeritus)
CEO, Siegelvision
Founder & Chairman Emeritus, Siegel+Gale
Scott F. Smith
Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling
Advisory Board
Hon. Bill Bradley
Former U.S. Senator
Former
National Basketball Association Player
Dr. William R. Brody
President, Salk Institute for Biological Studies;
Former President, Johns Hopkins University
Hon. John C. Danforth
Former U.S. Senator
Ambassador to the United Nations
Christopher Demuth
Distinguished Fellow,
Hudson Institute in Washington D.C.
Alain C. Enthoven
Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, Stanford University
Prof. Francis Fukuyama
Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and The Rule of Law, Stanford University
Hon. Newt Gingrich
Former Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives
Prof. Mary Ann Glendon
Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Prof. Jonathan Haidt
Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern School of Business
Heather R. Higgins
President and Director, The Randolph Foundation
Prof. Robert A. Kagan
Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law (Emeritus), Professor of Political Science (Emeritus), Professor in the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley
Hon. Tom Kean
Former President, Drew University
Former Governor of New Jersey
Prof. Steven Kelman
Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Weatherhead Professor of Public Management, Harvard University
Charles Kolb
President, French-American Foundation
Shelly Lazarus
Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
Dan Lufkin
Co-founder and Former Chair, Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette, Inc.
Director, Peter Jay Sharp Foundation
Lawrence J. Mone
Former President, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Margaret O'Kane
President, National Committee for Quality Assurance
Prof. Edmund S. Phelps
Director, The Center on Capitalism And Society, Columbia University;
Winner of The 2006 Nobel Prize In Economics
Prof. Stephen Presser
Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History, Northwestern University Law School
Dr. William A. Peck
Director, Washington University Center for Health Policy
George Rupp
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs;
Former President and CEO, International Rescue Committee;
Former President, Columbia University;
Founding Principal at Next: Network for Executive Transition
Shelby Steele
Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
C. Eugene Steuerle
Economist, Urban Institute
Larry Thompson
Former Deputy U.S. Attorney General
Staff
Matt Brown
Executive Director
mbrown@commongood.org
Andrew Park
Director of Research
apark@commongood.org
Ruth Mary Giverin
Assistant to Philip K. Howard
Administrative Director
rmgiverin@commongood.org
212-681-8199
Donna Thompson
Director of External Affairs
dthompson@commongood.org
203-609-1831
Henry Miller
Media Relations
hmiller@highimpactpartnering.com
917-921-8034
Seth Karecha
Consultant
seth@commongood.org