Beth Cobert
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PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byKatherine Archuleta
Succeeded byJeff Tien Han Pon
PresidentBarack Obama
Beth Cobert | |
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| Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management | |
Acting | |
| In office July 10, 2015 – January 20, 2017 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Katherine Archuleta |
| Succeeded by | Jeff Tien Han Pon |
| 2nd Chief Performance Officer of the United States | |
| In office October 16, 2013 – July 10, 2015 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Jeff Zients |
| Succeeded by | Kathleen McGettigan (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Spouse |
Adam Cioth (m. 1987) |
| Education | Princeton University (BA) Stanford University (MBA) |
Beth Frances Cobert is an American businesswoman and has been a government official. She served as the acting Director for the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from July 10, 2015[1] to January 20, 2017. As of March 2021[update], she is Chief Operating Officer of the Markle Foundation and Chief Executive Officer of Skillful, an initiative of that foundation.[2]
Cobert graduated with an A.B. in economics from Princeton University in 1980 after completing an 117-page long senior thesis titled "An International Monetary Fund Substitution Account: The Proposal and Its Prospects."[3] She then received an M.B.A. from Stanford University.[4]