Jamie M. Krauk

Jamie M. Krauk is the director of NASA’s Office of the Executive Secretariat, which provides strategic governance and decision management for the agency. In this role Jamie will oversee the development of internal NASA policies and requirements and external regulations codified in the Code of Federal Regulations. She also will advise agency audits and the investigation liaison program in compliance with presidential executive orders. In addition, she will lead the strategic engagement of key agency federal advisory committees. 

Jamie previously served as the deputy associate administrator of Mission Support Integration, Strategy, and Transformation for NASA’s Mission Support Directorate. In this role she focused on improving integration across mission support functions, centers, and missions. She also led Mission Support’s capability areas including risk, performance, and process transformation. She also worked very closely with NASA’s Shared Services Center at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

Prior to joining NASA, Jamie spent 21 years at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Department of Commerce where she established the first multi-function shared services organization at a cabinet-level agency. While at NOAA she served in numerous mission and mission support leadership roles, including deputy chief financial officer and chief administrative officer of NOAA’s Research Line Office and senior advisor to the deputy undersecretary. She also was a legislative assistant in the U.S. Senate to Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii and held multiple scientific and communications positions during this time.

Organizational change, and the ability to propel mission work, in both the scientific and mission-enabling arenas, are the hallmark of executive leadership. A scientist by training, with a keen eye for policy and strategy, Jamie studied biology at Bucknell University and has a master’s in environmental microbiology from the University of Maryland. She also has conducted research from a field station in Solomons Island, Maryland, Catalina Island in Santa Catalina, California, and in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean basins.

Jamie lives with her husband David, their daughter Fiona, and their pet dog Basil and cat Truffle. When not working, Jamie enjoys supporting her daughter’s acrobatic gymnastics activities, cooking, walking Basil, and boating with her family.