Mr. Kerry Neal is a career member of the Senior Executive Service (SES) and serves as Managing Director for Financial Policy, Reporting, and Analysis in the Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services, U.S. Department of State. In this role he is responsible for leadership/oversight in the following areas: formulating and interpreting financial policy (4 FAM/4 FAH); agency financial reporting, including preparation and production of the annual agency financial report (AFR); and federal assistance financial management (grants and assistance payment systems, training, and policy). Prior to this appointment, Kerry served as Assistant Inspector General for Management / Executive Director (SES) in the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of State, Office of Inspector General (OIG). In that role he was broadly responsible for all executive office administrative functions including information technology, $150M+ annual budget & resources, facilities, physical security, and human capital management. Before joining OIG, he served as Office Director (SES) for the Office of Grants Management at the U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary.

Prior to the Department of the Interior, he served as Deputy Director (SES) for the Office of Grants and Debarment at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where he oversaw a diverse portfolio including overall office operations (budget, human resources, change management, immediate office resource management, and technology systems integration). He also oversaw the HQ Grants and Interagency Agreement Management Division (GIAMD) and was responsible for the timely management and administration of more than $4 billion in annually appropriated assistance activities, and more than $15 billion in overall open financial assistance and interagency agreement activities at the EPA. In addition, the Office of Grants and Debarment manages the EPA's suspension and debarment practice consisting of a cadre of attorneys, professional support staff, and the senior level Debarring Official (SL). In 2017, he helped to establish the American Bar Association Grants Law Committee (GLC), serving as one of its founding co-chairs.

Prior to EPA, he served as Director for the Grants Division at the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Executive Office where he oversaw the operational grant administration portfolio of the largest grant making bureau at the Department. Under the Fulbright-Hays Act, he directed ECA's grant activities that facilitated people-to-people exchanges between the US and countries around the world. From 2013-2015 Kerry served as Board Member and Secretary/Treasurer of GLIFAA, the Department of State LGBT+ resource group. Kerry began his federal service at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service (formerly Financial Management Service), where he worked on the Cash Management Improvement Act program. Prior to joining federal service, he worked in administrative and management positions at Georgetown University and the University of Maryland.

Kerry has been a member of various non-profit executive boards, including the African American Federal Executive Association (AAFEA) and the National Grants Management Association (NGMA). Kerry is also a 2021 Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Kerry holds a B.S. in business from Long Island University, Southampton College; M.A. in business/legal administration from Marymount University; J.D. from University of Baltimore School of Law; and an LL.M. in environmental and energy law and policy from Georgetown University Law Center; he is admitted to practice law in Maryland, District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court.