Board Members
The Code of Ethics establishes both an independent Board of Ethics and an Ethics Officer position to assist the agency in maintaining the desired ethical standards.
Board of Ethics Members
Dr. Daniel Ebb
Dr. Ebb has more than 30 years of experience within the aerospace and defense industry with a major defense contractor. Since joining that company, he has held a variety of leadership positions both domestically and internationally. In his current role as Director of Ethics and Compliance, Dr. Ebb is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the Ethics and Compliance Program for approximately 50,000 employees around the world. He manages the program by serving as an ethics advisor to sector management; providing guidance, direction and support to business conduct advisors and implementing corporate ethics initiatives; ensuring proper review and evaluation of reported violations; and leading the ethics committee to ensure that leadership is informed of ethics issues and activities.
Dr. Ebb also currently serves as the Treasurer for the Defense Industry Initiative (DII), a 501(c)(6) nonpartisan nonprofit that promotes ethical business practices among Department of Defense contractors.
Dr. Ebb earned his Doctor of Management degree from University of Maryland Global Campus, his M.B.A. from Loyola College in Maryland, and his Bachelor of Finance from Hampton University.
Dr. Ebb is a lifelong resident of Prince George’s County and is a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional and Certified Public Accountant. He was appointed to the Board of Ethics as a regular member in 2026.
Dr. Steven Hausman
Dr. Hausman joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a staff fellow in the intramural research program of the National Institute on Aging. In 1977, he became Special Assistant to the Associate Director for Arthritis, Bone and Skin Diseases of the then-named National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases. In 1978, he became Director of the Arthritis Centers Program in the same institute, and in 1986, he was appointed Deputy Director of the Division of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. When the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) was established in 1987, Dr. Hausman became Deputy Director of the Extramural Program. In 1990, he was appointed as the first Deputy Director of NIAMS. He concurrently served as Director of the Extramural Program from 1995 to 2002.
Dr. Hausman has received the NIH Director’s Award (NIH’s highest award); the Public Health Service (PHS) Exceptional Achievement Award, recognizing his activities as chair of the PHS Advisory Committee for Employment of Persons with Disabilities; the NIH Equal Employment Opportunity Award; an award from the Lupus Foundation of America in recognition of his support for lupus research; and the Outstanding Ethics Program Award from the Office of Government Ethics for the quality of his stewardship of the NIAMS ethics program that he led since 1995. He is cited in American Men and Women of Science, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering and Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare.
Dr. Hausman has been active in ethics for many years, and in 2002, he co-organized and chaired a national NIH conference on institutional conflict of interest. He led the NIH-wide committee to develop an enterprise-wide ethics data system to enable all ethics activities to be conducted online, and he was the sponsoring partner member representative of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association.
Based on his strong background in information technology, Dr. Hausman was asked in February 2001 to manage the effort to convert all incoming paper applications (currently at a level of approximately 80,000 per year) to electronic format via an enterprise-wide scanning effort. Following the success of this project, he assumed the role of NIH Advocate for Advanced Technologies and became the organizer of the NIH Advanced Technologies Scientific Interest Group, which includes nanotechnology, robotics and biomedical applications of new technologies as major emphasis areas.
Because of his interest in advocating for individuals with disabilities, Dr. Hausman was appointed to membership on, and elected chair of, the NIH Diversity Council. His professional affiliations include the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of Immunologists, American Chemical Society, American Society for Cell Biology, Transplantation Society, National Speakers Association and the Global Speakers Federation.
Following his retirement from federal service in January 2007, Dr. Hausman founded Hausman Technology Keynotes and Consulting and is currently a professional speaker in the area of emerging technologies that include nanotechnology, robotics, bionics, 3D printing, biometrics and security-related issues. He is a member of the expert panel of TechCast Global, an organization devoted to forecasting technology for strategic planning purposes.
Dr. Hausman graduated with a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 and received his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1972 in the field of immunogenetics and transplantation biology. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia in 1975.
Dr. Hausman resides in Montgomery County and was initially appointed to the Board of Ethics as a regular member in 2007. He served as Chair in 2010 and 2011.
Michael Kraft, Chair
Michael Kraft has more than 20 years of experience within the ethics and compliance industry, including more than 15 years in progressively senior ethics and compliance roles within Fannie Mae as well as in his current role at TriNet, a professional employer organization, where he manages that company’s business conduct and ethics functions. In this capacity, he is responsible for managing the employee helpline, performing conflict of interest reviews, conducting investigations of allegations of misconduct, and supporting ethics training and policy development.
Mr. Kraft received his B.A. in history from Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, in 1994. He also received an M.B.A. from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1996 and his J.D. in 2005 from American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, DC.
Mr. Kraft is a resident of Montgomery County and a member of the Maryland Bar Association and the District of Columbia Bar Association. He was appointed to the Board of Ethics as a regular member in 2025. In July 2026, he began his service as Chair.
Alternate Board Member
Chandria Slaughter
Chandria Slaughter has more than 16 years of service in the federal government and currently serves as an ethics attorney in her component’s Office of the General Counsel. In this capacity, she reviews confidential financial and public financial disclosure reports, provides guidance to employees, and assists in developing materials for her component’s annual ethics training. In addition to her ethics work, Ms. Slaughter is the lead attorney for Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) matters and serves as the FOIA public liaison for her office.
Ms. Slaughter received her B.A. in international studies from the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 1993. Although a native Marylander, she has a fondness for Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she attended law and graduate school at the University of New Mexico. She received her J.D. in 2002 and an M.A. in Latin American studies in 2003.
Ms. Slaughter is a lifelong resident of Prince George’s County and a member of the Maryland Bar Association and Prince George’s County Bar Association. She was appointed to the Board of Ethics as an alternate member in 2020.
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