The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board was an agency of the United States federal government, which managed the Recovery.gov website and oversaw spending under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Recovery.gov was the U.S. government’s official website that provided easy access to data related to Recovery Act spending and allowed for the reporting of potential fraud, waste, and abuse.
Kathleen S. Tighe was chair of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. Other members include:
Richard L. Skinner, Vice Chairman
Phyllis K. Fong, Chairperson, U.S. Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency
Gordon S. Heddell, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense
Gregory H. Friedman, Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Energy
J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
Daniel Levinson, Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General of the United States Department of Justice
Calvin L. Scovel III, Inspector General for the Department of Transportation
Eric Thorson, Inspector General for the United States Treasury Department. He currently oversaw the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Kathleen S. Tighe, Inspector General for the Department of Education
Mary L. Kendall, Acting Inspector General for the United States Department of the Interior
Board was closed on September 30, 2015.
Acting under the ARR Act, the President announced four appointees to the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel on March 5, 2010.
Steven Koch, a vice chairman and co-chairman of Credit Suisse's Mergers and Acquisitions Group, based in Chicago;
Chris Sale, vice president for development finance at CHF International;
Malcolm Sparrow, professor of the Practice of Public Management at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government;
Edward Tufte, professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University.
