Max Stier

President and CEO, Partnership for Public Service

Max Stier is the founding president and CEO of the nonpartisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service. Under his leadership, the Partnership has been widely hailed as a first-rate organization and thought leader on government management issues.  

Max has worked in all three branches of the federal government. He served on the personal staff of Congressman Jim Leach. He clerked for Chief Judge James Oakes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and, clerked for Justice David Souter of the United States Supreme Court. In the interval between the two clerkships, he served as special litigation counsel to Assistant Attorney General Anne Bingaman at the Department of Justice. 

After working at the Department of Justice, Max joined the law firm of Williams & Connolly, where his practice focused primarily on white-collar defense. 

Max’s most recent government position was as the deputy general counsel for litigation at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 

A graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School, Max is a member of the Inaugural Advisory Council of the National Institute of Social Sciences, the National Academy of Public Administration, the Administrative Conference of the United States, the Advisory Council for the Center for Effective Government at the University of Chicago, and the Advisory Board for the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University.