In December of 1997, Vice President Al Gore appointed Morley Winograd Senior Policy Advisor and Director of the National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR).  As head of NPR, Mr. Winograd will spearhead Al Gore's efforts to "reinvent government," a process that has been in motion since NPR's inception in 1993.

Morley Winograd has been involved in Democratic politics for more that twenty-five years.  He served as Chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party from 1973 to 1980.  He worked with the Association of State Democratic Chairs from 1979 to 1980.  In 1988, he began working with leaders of the Democratic Leadership Council, among them then-Governor Clinton and then-Senator Gore, on developing the first successful information age political agenda.  That year, Mr. Winograd also chaired Al Gore's presidential primary campaign in Michigan.  As a member of the Democratic Leadership Council, in 1991, Mr. Winograd served as Parliamentarian at the National Convention in Cleveland.  In 1996, he helped found the Institute for the New California, a think tank devoted to aligning that state's governing systems with requirements for the information age.

Throughout his career, Mr. Winograd has worked to apply business-type thinking to government problems, combining a theoretical approach with practical know-how.  He is co-author with Dudley Buffa of Taking Control: Politics in the Information Age.

In 1979, he began his career in the communications industry as an employee of Michigan Bell and quickly advanced through the ranks.  As Sales Vice President for AT&T's Western Region Commercial Markets, he was responsible for propelling the success of small business customers in that region.  He has been nationally recognized for his innovative approach to sales and his creation of the AT&T University of Sales Excellence Program.

Mr. Winograd has also served as Chairman of the Board for Technology for Results in Elementary Education (TREE), targeting at-risk children.  He was a faculty member for the School for Managing, and a founder of the American Renaissance Foundation.  He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration.  He and his wife Bobbie have three children and one grandchild.