Environmental Protection Agency Nomination of William Drayton, Jr., To Be an Assistant Administrator.

The President today announced that he will nominate William Drayton, Jr., of Cambridge, Mass., to be Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Planning and Management). Drayton is a lecturer on public regulation and management reform at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a management consultant for McKinsey & Co. in New York City.

He was born June 15, 1943, in New York City. He received an A.B. from Harvard, an M.A. from Balliol College, Oxford University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Drayton has been a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. since 1970. He has been on leave from McKinsey since 1975, serving as a visiting associate professor at Stanford Law School in 1975-76 and a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government in 1976-77. In 1976 he worked on the Carter-Mondale campaign and transition staff on regulatory reform and reorganization.