Denise Krepp

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Denise R. Krepp
Born Atlanta, GA
Occupation (former) Chief Counsel, U.S. Maritime Administration(MARAD)

K. Denise Rucker Krepp is former Chief Council for U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) which operated under the United States Department of Transportation.

Before her political appointment by President Obama, Krepp served in the United States Coast Guard for two years and worked as a United States Congressional staffer for seven years. Krepp left government service in February 2012.

Krepp is now a critic of Obama administration maritime and USAID policies, after having left government service.

Education

Juris Doctor, University of Florida, 1986

Biography

Krepp is a lawyer specialized in a homeland security, transportation and energy. She is a former Chief Council for U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) which operated under the Department of Transportation, who has also served as Chief Counsel to the House of Representatives’ Committee on Homeland Security.[1] Ms. Krepp began her career as an active duty U.S. Coast Guard officer in 1998.

In 2001, Krepp was a member of the team that created the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration.

In 2005, Krepp joined the House of Representatives’ Committee on Homeland Security as Chief Counsel. There, she drafted the maritime and surface transportation sections of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, part of which involved the enshrinement into legislation the Container Security Initiative, Global Trade Exchange ports data gathering initiatives.

In 2009, Krepp was appointed by the President to serve as Chief counsel at the U.S. Maritime Administration and special counsel to the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Transportation.

In February 2012, Krepp abruptly left her role as Chief Counsel.[2]

Post-2012, Krepp works as a private consultant. She is also a professor at the George Washington University and Pennsylvania State University.

Criticism of Obama administration

Since her departure from government service, Krepp has increasingly criticized Obama administration management of the maritime sector, making negative remarks about USAID's transition to international direct food aid from distribution of through the merchant marine.[3][4] Krepp has also been critical of USAID management.[5][6][7]

In a series of 2013 op-eds, Krepp has claimed Obama administration policies decrease U.S. jobs by debilitating the U.S. merchant marine.[8]

Krepp also criticized her former boss, MARAD administrator David Matsuda, as unqualified to have managed the U.S. Maritime Administration, calling him an "inexperienced outsider" and a "a former Senate staffer who did not have a maritime background".[9]

Krepp also attacked 2013 Congressional agriculture-related legislation (i.e. the "Farm Bill"),[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Homeland Security senior counsel leaves for Maritime Administration, The Hill, September 29, 2009
  2. ↑ Marad Chief Counsel Departing?, February 8, 2012, Maritime Reporter and Marine News Magazines Online
  3. ↑ The Merchant Marine and Food Policy, Maritime Executive, Sept 27, 2013
  4. ↑ U.S. jobs, defense versus world's hungry?, Delta Farm Press, Nov 15, 2013
  5. ↑ USAID - Waste and Mismanagement Exposed, Maritime Executive, July 8, 2013
  6. ↑ Denise Krepp Discusses Recent Editorial on USAID's Waste and Mismanagement, Maritime Executive, June 12, 2013
  7. ↑ The End of the U.S. Merchant Marine? , March 12, 2013, The Maritime Executive
  8. ↑ U.S. jobs, defense versus world's hungry?, Delta Farm Press, Nov 15, 2013
  9. ↑ Who Will Lead U.S. Maritime?, Maritime Executive, May 30, 2013
  10. ↑ U.S. jobs, defense versus world's hungry?, Delta Farm Press, Nov 15, 2013

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