Marcus Peacock

Marcus Peacock
Marcus C. Peacock at the World Energy Forum 2006
Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
In office 2005–2009
President	George W. Bush
Succeeded by	Bob Perciasepe
Personal details
Born	(1960-03-21) March 21, 1960 (age 57)

Marcus C. Peacock (born March 21, 1960) was the minority staff director at the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget. He is a former Deputy Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He served at the EPA from August 8, 2005 to January 20, 2009. Donald Trump waived his five-year lobbying ban on administration officials allowing Peacock to join the Business Roundtable.

Peacock received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers.

Before working at EPA, Mr. Peacock was an Associate Director at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

While at OMB, Mr. Peacock created the Performance Assessment Rating Tool, or PART, which was used to rate the effectiveness of federal programs. The PART won Harvard University’s Innovations in Government Award in 2005 and the American Society for Public Administration's Leadership Award in 2007. During this time, Mr. Peacock also helped develop a performance-based system for funding U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' projects and for this work, in 2006, was awarded the Army's Outstanding Civilian Service Medal.

During his tenure Peacock overhauled EPA’s performance management system. This included publishing a quarterly performance report to the public called the EPAStat Quarterly Report, the first ‘Stat’ program in the federal government. EPAStat copied performance management systems used by local governments, such as "CitiStat" in the City of Baltimore. These improvements led to EPA winning the President’s Quality Award for Overall Management, “the highest award given to federal agencies for management excellence,” in 2007 and 2008. It is the first time a federal agency has won the award back-to-back. Peacock was an early adopter of Web 2.0 technology in government and was the first federal political appointee to maintain a public blog.