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'{{Infobox Congressman | name = Douglas A. Brook | image = Douglas brook.jpg | birth_name=Douglas Alan Brook | birth_date={{bda|1944|1|15}} | birth_place = [[Chicago, Illinois]], U.S. | residence= Elon, NC | occupation= visiting professor of public policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy, at Duke University | order= | office2=[[Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller)]] | term_start2=2007 | term_end2=2009 | preceded2 =[[Richard Greco, Jr.]] | succeeded2 = [[Gladys J. Commons]] | spouse = Mariana Proctor Brook | alma_mater=[[University of Michigan]] | religion = Methodist }} '''Douglas Alan Brook''' (born January 15, 1944) was [[United States]] [[Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller)]] from 1990 to 1992 and [[Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller)]] from 2007 to 2009.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=UIWzUqdc208C&q=%22Douglas+A.+Brook%22+AND+%221944%22&dq=%22Douglas+A.+Brook%22+AND+%221944%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9FHDUdLtO4KQiAKAhIGwBA&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg Nominations Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Second Session, 101st Congress]</ref> ==Biography== Douglas A. Brook was born in [[Chicago]] and raised in [[East Detroit, Michigan]]. He was educated at the [[University of Michigan]], receiving a [[bachelor's degree]] in [[Political Science]] in 1965 and a [[Master of Public Administration]] degree in 1967. After college, he served in the [[United States Navy]] from 1968 to 1970, and remained an officer in the [[United States Naval Reserve]] after his service ended. In 1971 he joined the National Association of Manufacturers first as director of public finance and later as assistant vice president for public affairs. In 1977, Brook joined [[Libbey–Owens–Ford]] in 1976 as Vice President of Government Affairs. He completed the [[Executive Education]] Program at the [[Darden Graduate School of Business Administration]] in 1977. He left Libbey-Owens-Ford in 1982 to found Brook Associates, Inc., a public affairs consulting business serving corporate and trade association clients. During this time, he lived in [[Vienna, Virginia]] and served two elected terms on the Vienna Town Council. In 1990, [[President of the United States]] [[George H. W. Bush]] nominated Brook to be [[Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller)]] and, after [[Senate confirmation]], Brook held that office from 1990 to 1992. He also served as Acting Director of the [[United States Office of Personnel Management]] in 1992. Brook left government service in 1992, becoming Vice President of Government Affairs for [[LTV Corporation]]. He held this position until the [[liquidation]] of LTV Corporation in 2002. In 2001 he received his Ph.D. in public policy from George Mason University. In 2002, he became Dean of the Graduate School of Business & Public Policy at the [[Naval Postgraduate School]]. He stepped down as dean in 2005, but remained a professor of public policy and director of the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Defense Management Reform. In 2007, President [[George W. Bush]] nominated Brook to be [[Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller)]] and Brook held that office from 2007 to 2009. He was also Acting [[Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)]] from 2008 to 2009. Currently, Brook sings tenor with the Front Street United Methodist Church Chancel Choir in Burlington, North Carolina, under the direction of Choirmaster, Laura Sam. <!-- ==Works by Douglas A. Brook== *"Steel: Trade Policy in a Changed Environment," in Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern, eds., ''Constituent Interests and U.S. Trade Policies'', (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1998), 133-144. *"Merit and The Civil Service Reform Act," in James P. Pfiffner and Douglas A. Brook, eds., ''The Future of Merit: Twenty Years After the Civil Service Reform Act'', (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2000), 1-11. *"Audited Financial Statements: Getting and Sustaining 'Clean' Opinions", monograph, (Washington: The PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government, July, 2001). *(with C. King), "Civil Service reform as national security: The Homeland Security Act of 2002", ''Public Administration Review'', 67 (3), 2002, 399-407. *"Administrative Reform in the Federal Government: Understanding the Search for Private Sector Management Models - An Annotated Bibliography," ''Public Administration and Management: An Interactive Journal'', vol. 7, no. 2 (2002): 117-165. *"Trade Policy Strategies and Enforcement Choices: An Examination of the 1992 Steel Antidumping Cases", ''The International Trade Journal'', vol. XVII, no. 1 (Spring, 2003): 81-100. *"Dumping and Subsidy Cases at the ITC: Voting Discretion and Commissioner Attributes", ''International Trade Journal'', XIX (4), 2005, 309-336. *"Meta-Strategic Lobbying: The 1998 Steel Imports Case", ''Business and Politics'', 7 (1), 2005, 1-25. *(with C. King), "Civil Service Reform as National Security", ''Public Administration Review'', 2007, 397-405. *(with P. Candreva), "Business Management Reform in the Department of Defense in Anticipation of Declining Budgets", ''[[Public Budgeting and Finance]]'', 2007, 50-70. *(with P. Candreva), "Business Management Reform in the Department of Defense in Anticipation of Declining Budgets", ''[[Public Budgeting and Finance]]'', 27 (3), 2007, 50-70. *(with P. Candreva), "Transitions in Defense Management Reform: A Review of the Government Accountability Office’s Chief Management Officer Recommendation and Comments for the New Administration", ''Public Administration Review'', 2008, 1043-1049. *(with C. King), "Federal Personnel Management Reform: From the Civil Service Reform Act to National Security Reforms", ''Review of Public Personnel Administration'', 28, 2008, 205-211. *(with C. King), "Federal personnel management reform from the Civil Service Reform Act to DHS and NSPS", ''Review of Public Personnel Management'', 28, 2008, 205-221. *(with P. Candreva), "Whither the Defense Budget? Countervailing Pressures and Process Challenges", ''Journal of Government Financial Management'', 2009, 10-15. *(with C. King), "The Department of Homeland Security: A case study in legislating innovation in Human Capital Management", in ''Legislating Innovation in Human Capital Management: Lessons from The Department of Homeland Security'', Sistare, H. & Buss, T. (eds). M.E. Sharpe, 2008. *"Audit Financial Statements in the Federal Government: Intentions, Outcomes and On-Going Challenges for Managers and Policy-Making", ''Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management'', 22 (1), 2010. --> ==References== {{Reflist}} *[http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=441 Profile from Dept. of the Navy] *[http://research.nps.navy.mil/cgi-bin/vita.cgi?p=display_vita&id=1023567796 Vita from the Naval Postgraduate School] {{start box}} {{s-gov}} {{succession box| before=[[Richard Greco, Jr.]]| title=[[Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller)]]| after=[[Gladys J. Commons]]| years=2007 &ndash; 2009 }} {{end box}} {{USSecNavy |state=collapsed}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Brook, Douglas A.}} [[Category:1944 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:People from Chicago]] [[Category:University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni]] [[Category:University of Virginia Darden School of Business alumni]] [[Category:United States Assistant Secretaries of the Navy]] [[Category:Virginia city council members]] [[Category:Virginia Republicans]] [[Category:George W. Bush administration personnel]] [[Category:People from Vienna, Virginia]] [[Category:People from Eastpointe, Michigan]] [[Category:Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy alumni]]'