Patrick Murphy

The Honorable Patrick J. Murphy is a Nonresidential Fellow at the Penn Wharton Budget Model Office. An entrepreneur who leads the geopolitical unit at Hilco Global, he is an historic enterprise-level leader. While serving as acting Secretary of the Army and America’s first Iraq War Veteran elected to the US Congress, he served on the Appropriations Committee and authored bipartisan legislation into law that cut fraud, waste and abuse in Congress via the Improve Act and Improper Payments Act that’s saved tens of billions of taxpayer dollars. In the Pentagon, Secretary Murphy expanded the Soldier for Life initiative, generating over $250 million in public-private partnerships while bringing in over 120K Gen Z troops into the Army. To better connect the Pentagon to 19+ million American veterans, he opened online sales to drive revenue beyond the 2,500 Army & Air Force Exchange Service retail stores, increasing annual sales to over $6.7 billion. The Army is a Fortune 2-sized organization with over 1.3 million members and an annual budget of over $185 billion. He has been the distinguished chair of innovation at the United States Military Academy at West Point, visiting fellow at the University of Chicago, and lectures at the US Army War College.