Donna Siegle

Donna Siegle serves as the NCI Executive Officer, responsible for leading the NCI Office of Management (OM), comprised of more than 600 employees.  Ms. Siegle provides executive level management to 21 offices within the NCI Office of the Director and Office of Management. The OM provides a wide range of business and administrative services to more than 3,500 federal employees, and approximately 3,000 Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) employees and other contract staff.  OM employees work at NCI campuses in Bethesda, Rockville (Shady Grove), and Frederick, Maryland.

Prior to serving as NCI Executive Officer, Ms. Siegle served as the Deputy Executive Officer for the NCI OM for 5 years and before that she was an Administrative Resource Center director for the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics for 12 years. Ms. Siegle has more than 26 years of administrative experience at the NIH, including 24 years with NCI. She has spent years developing and achieving expertise in administrative and business areas while providing guidance to senior program managers and scientific staff on human capital and financial resource management, and leading, managing, and supporting the administrative and scientific NCI programs that support biomedical research. Ms. Siegle is the recipient of two NCI Merit Awards and two NIH Director group awards for her leadership on various administrative and business working groups. She holds a BS degree from the University of Maryland.