Tom Brandt is a risk management practitioner in the federal government. With nearly three decades of federal service, he is currently the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and Director of Planning and Risk for the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board. He previously served as CRO for the IRS. He is a fellow with the National Academy of Public Administration, a past president of the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management (AFERM), and also served as chair of the OECD Forum on Tax Administration’s ERM Community of Interest from 2018–2021.