He currently advises the Bush campaign.
For the first eleven years of his career, Mr. Moran was actively involved in the development and implementation of health and human services policy as a government appointee. Beginning as the Administrative Assistant to the Cass County (MI) Board of Commissioners (1974-1975), his early career on the design and implementation of employment and training programs. He served as a planning consultant to the Michigan Employment Security Commission (1975-1976) before being appointed as Executive Director of the Barry-Branch-St. Joseph Employment & Training Consortium (1976-77).
Mr. Moran moved to Washington in 1977 to serve as Legislative Assistant (1977-81) to Congressman Dave Stockman (R-MI). He worked on the Health & Environment Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce, and as staff director of the House Republican Economic Policy Task Force.
In 1981, Mr. Moran moved to the U.S. Office of Management & Budget (OMB), where he served as Associate Director for Human Resources, Veterans and Labor (1981) and as Executive Associate Director for Budget & Legislation (1982-1985). In his first OMB assignment, he oversaw policy analysis and budget review for the Departments of Health & Human Services, Labor, Education, and the Veterans Administration. In his subsequent assignment, he managed government-wide budget review operations, and managed OMB's extensive involvement in the Congressional budget and appropriations processes.
Mr. Moran left OMB in 1985 to join ICF Incorporated, a Washington-based research and consulting firm, as a partner in the firm's Health & Pensions practice. In 1987, Don and his partners merged their business operations with Lewin & Associates, forming Lewin-ICF, which subsequently became a subsidiary of Value Health, Inc, doing business as Lewin-VHI (1992-1996). In 1996, the business was acquired by Quintiles Transnational Corporation, and was renamed The Lewin Group.
Mr. Moran left The Lewin Group in June, 1998 to found The Moran Company, in order to expand the scope of his business beyond Lewin's historical base in policy research and consulting. In addition to offering consulting services, The Moran Company offers clients the capacity to design, implement and manage complex projects involving professional and business service vendors from multiple sources. The Moran Company also participates in the formation of new business ventures in the health care field.
Mr. Moran received a BS in Mathematics from the University of Illinois in 1973, and subsequently completed a graduate program in employment and training program administration at the University of Michigan in 1977.
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