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William A. Drayton, Jr.
Biography
[EPA press release - September 22, 1977]
William Drayton, Jr., now confirmed by the U.S. Senate, has assumed his duties as Assistant Administrator for Planning and Management of the Environment Protection Agency.
Responsible for the Agency's central analytical staff, Drayton will evaluate existing programs and proposed regulations and help develop new policy initiatives. He will oversee the Agency's economic and energy policy analytical work.
EPA Adminstrator Douglas M. Costle also has asked Drayton to pursue both regulatory and management reform.
As chief budget and management officer, Drayton already has led EPA through its first Agency-wide Zero Based Budget (ZBB) evaluation, which will form the basis for next year's budget.
Drayton taught in the area of regulatory and management reform at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government School of Government during 1976 and 1977. As a member of the Carter-Mondale transition staff, hew was responsible for the regulatory agencies and management reform, and helped develop the transition's reorganization proposals. In 1975-76 he was visiting professor of law at Stanford University Law School.
From 1970 to 1976, Drayton was a consultant with the international firm of McKinsey and Company, specializing in solving key management and policy problems for a large number of public and private clients.
He is the author of "Economic Law Enforcement," a six volume work published by EPA in 1975, and of articles in the Yale Law Journal including "The Public Trust in Tidal Areas" and "The Tar and Nicotine Tax: Pursuing Health Through Tax Incentives."
Drayton, who is 34, was born in New York City and studied at Harvard College (A.B. degree 1965), Balliol College, Oxford University (M.A. 1967) and Yale Law School (J.D. degree 1970).
He resides in Arlington, Virginia.