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Current Process Topics in International Budgeting
Moderator:
Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), US House of Representatives
Presentation:
Barry Anderson, Head of the Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division at the Public Governance and Territorial Development Service of the OECD |
Discussant:
Donald Marron, Director (Acting) of the Congressional Budget Office
The event took place on Thursday, March 02, 2006
8:30 AM Registration - 9.00-10.00 AM Presentation
Cannon House Office Building, Hearing Room - 210, Washington, DC.
Mr. Anderson's presentation addressed four current topics in international budget processes: why expenditure rules are better than deficit rules, the process and benefits of doing very long term budget projections, current trends in using performance information in budgeting, and the issue of changing the budget accounting for tax credits.
Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1992 from Florida's 21st Congressional District, which encompassed much of western Miami-Dade County. He served as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee during his first term, working to preserve the special U.S. - Israel relationship and striving to protect United States national security. In 1994, Lincoln Diaz-Balart became the first Hispanic in U.S. history to be named to the powerful Rules Committee. In 1998, Diaz-Balart was reelected to the House of Representatives by the highest margin of victory of any contested Congressional race in Florida. As a member of the House Rules Committee, on September 14, 2001, Lincoln Diaz-Balart took to the floor of the House the Joint Resolution authorizing the use of the United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001 against the United States. On November 13, 2002, he took to the Floor the historic legislation creating the "Department of Homeland Security". When Congress created the “Select Committee on Homeland Security” in March, 2003, Lincoln Diaz-Balart was named to that important Committee by the Speaker of the House, and he was appointed Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee's Subcommittee on Rules.
Lincoln Diaz-Balart was reelected without opposition in 2000 and in 2002; this time from the newly configured District 21, which includes parts of western Miami-Dade County and southwestern Broward County.
Barry Anderson is currently Head of the Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division at the Public Governance and Territorial Development Service of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Prior to joining OECD, Mr. Anderson was a budget advisor at the International Monetary Fund, where he advised senior government officials on budget and management issues, including: fiscal rules; public-private partnerships; performance budgeting; and the organization and operation of central budget offices. Before joining IMF, Mr. Anderson served in various positions dealing with federal budgeting in the United States Federal Government, most recently as the Deputy Director and then the Acting Director of the Congressional Budget Office; before that as the Assistant Director and senior career civil servant at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, and before that at the General Accounting Office. In these positions, he helped draft and implement the Budget Enforcement Act, the Gramm-Rudman Act, and every other major budget control act enacted by Congress. He also represented the United States and chaired meetings of Senior Budget Officials held by the OECD. He has also been a member of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board, and a private consultant. He currently is a member of the Board of the Center on Federal Financial Institutions and of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and he lectures on federal budgeting at the George Washington University. He received his MBA from the University of Washington, and his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois.
Donald Marron became CBO's Deputy Director in October 2005 and began serving as Acting Director as of December 30. Previously, Dr. Marron served as Chief Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers. In that capacity, he analyzed a broad range of fiscal, regulatory, and macroeconomic policies and directed a team that monitored the state of the economy and developed economic forecasts. Prior to holding that post, Dr. Marron was the Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Congress's Joint Economic Committee, where he led a team that advised Members of Congress and Congressional staff about the performance of the economy, fiscal policy challenges, and the impacts of legislative proposals. Before his government service, Dr. Marron was chief financial officer of a medical software start-up in Austin, Texas, and a principal and senior associate with the Washington, D.C., office of Charles River Associates, where he provided business consulting and litigation support to companies in a variety of industries. He also served as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business from 1994 to 1998, where he taught courses in microeconomics, entrepreneurial finance and private equity, and environmental policy.
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