Earlier he served as deputy director of the National Science Foundation and as chief of personnel and training at the Office of Naval Research.

Dinallo served at the Office of Attorney General Eliot Spitzer from 1999 to 2003.

In the early 1940s he served in a staff assignment at the Office of the Chief of Staff in Washington, D.C.

Previously she served as the head of regulatory affairs at the Office of Management and Budget, where she became known in Washington for her strong deregulatory zeal.

He served two spells as Under-Secretary of State for Scotland at the Scottish Office from 1981 to 1986, and from 1990 to 1995.

He later served as General Counsel and Chief of Staff at the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

He was made a peer on 4 May 1955, shortly before the 1955 general election, and served as a Minister of State at the Scottish Office until 1958.

Between these two assignments, he served as an attorney at the Office of Legal Counsel in the United States Department of Justice.

From August 1997- July 1999 served at the Office of the Prime Minister as Head of Coordination Department.

Mr. Carlson served as chief economist at the Office of Management and Budget under President Nixon.