Shelley Hope Metzenbaum (born March 18, 1952) is an American nonprofit executive, academic, and former government official specializing in public sector performance management.

[3] Previous to this, she received a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School and completed her Bachelor of Arts, with an emphasis on humanities and Asian studies, at Stanford University.

She also initiated reforms of the Commonwealth's Superfund program and led a project resulting in the creation of the New England Environmental Business Council.

She led the design and implementation of the National Environmental Performance Partnership System, which used data to streamline management attention to identifying potential problems and developing interventions.

[7] After her service in the Clinton administration, Metzenbaum was a Visiting Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy.

At the University of Maryland, she was faculty chair of an executive education program on the policy-making process in science-based federal agencies originally developed for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

While at the University of Maryland, Metzenbaum wrote on performance accountability[8] which the George W. Bush administration cited as an example for improving government programs.

[12] Prior to her position at the University of Maryland, she served as adjunct faculty at the Brookings Institution, running the "Science and Technology Policy" and "Managing for Results" programs.

In that role, she developed a university-based resource center for improving public performance management at the federal, state, and local levels.

For example, the Center coordinates MassStat, a consortium of local governments committed to learning from each other's experiences in using data to make performance decisions.