As the Deputy Chief Financial Officer at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Kelly L. DeGraff leads enterprise financial management for the federal government’s human capital agency. Her portfolio spans budget, finance, performance, execution, financial analysis, internal controls, and stewardship of approximately $1 trillion in earned benefits funds that support federal retirement, health, and life insurance programs.

Ms. DeGraff’s leadership focuses on strengthening OPM’s financial management posture, improving institutional credibility, and delivering clearer decision support for senior leaders. She is leading the modernization of OPM’s financial management operating model by strengthening governance, clarifying roles, documenting core processes, cross-training staff, and reducing dependency on informal knowledge and single points of failure. Before becoming Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Ms. DeGraff served as Associate Chief Financial Officer for Budget and Performance at OPM. In that role, she led Budget Office modernization and advanced agency performance reporting.

Ms. DeGraff has built her career leading complex federal programs through high-stakes operational change. Before joining the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, she served as Deputy Associate Director for the Federal Executive Boards at OPM, where she managed strategic partnerships and led nationwide policy coordination and streamlining efforts across all federal agencies.
At the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), she held several senior leadership roles, including Deputy Assistant Administrator, Acting, for the National Preparedness Directorate, with executive oversight of seven national programs and two federal training institutions, and Assistant Administrator, Acting, for the Fund Management Directorate, with responsibility for more than $100 billion in funds. She also served as Director of Insurance and Mitigation Readiness, where she led restructuring of a geographically dispersed workforce of 1,800 through change management and stakeholder engagement.

Earlier in her career, Ms. DeGraff served as Director of Disaster Services at AmeriCorps and as a senior advisor to the White House. She helped launch national service and resilience initiatives, including the 21st Century Conservation Service Corps, FEMA Corps, and Resilience AmeriCorps, and led the design and implementation of a $27 million Gulf Coast ecosystem restoration roadmap.

Ms. DeGraff is a member of the Senior Executive Service. She is a Yale Global Executive Fellow and a Harvard Senior Executive Fellow. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in public policy. Her honors include the 2023 Robert M. Tobias Achievement Award from American University and the 2016 President’s Award for Public Service and Civic Engagement. She was also a finalist for the 2014 Partnership for Public Service Samuel J. Heyman Award.