Since leaving the House in 2007, Republican Mark Kennedy of Minnesota has been busy — in addition to giving strategic advice to business, he helped start the Economic Club of Minnesota, has been lecturing at universities and has even led a University of Pennsylvania research team on high-speed rail. It has been a career transformation for the CPA who held executive positions at Accenture and Pillsbury Co., and he made another last week when he became executive director of George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management.
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The school, started in 1987, teaches politics as an applied field rather than as a social study. It has been without a full-time leader since the founding dean, F. Christopher Arterton, went back to teaching in 2010.