Kevin J. Scheid currently serves on the intelligence community staff in the office of the Director of Central Intelligence. During the past two years, he led the investigation into the performance of the Intelligence Community for the 9/11 Commission. Working with his team, he prepared the intelligence reform recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, which were largely accepted by Congress and enacted into law on December 17th. Prior to his work on the 9/11 Commission, Scheid served as Staff Director to General Brent Scowcroft who led President Bush’s review of US intelligence during the summer of 2001. He has served on the DCI’s staff for six years. He began his career at the White House Office of Management and Budget where he served for eleven years. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, he holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.