The University of Texas at Austin

Billy Hamilton

Texas State Finances: Onward Through the Fog

Monday, April 23, 2007
12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
LBJ School Student Lounge
Sid Richardson Hall, Unit 3
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
The University of Texas at Austin
2315 Red River Street
Austin, Texas

On April 23, the LBJ School and its alumni association will welcome Billy Hamilton, former deputy comptroller of public accounts for the State of Texas Comptroller and a graduate of the LBJ School. Mr. Hamilton will discuss the current state and the future of Texas finances.

Mr. Hamilton served as deputy comptroller of public accounts for the State of Texas Comptroller from 1999-2006. In 2004 he worked on special assignment for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on the California Performance Review, and he has also worked as a consultant to the World Bank on issues related to public debt management, tax policy and performance management in Poland, Hungary, Romania and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mr. Hamilton is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (2005); a board member (1991-98 and 2001-06) and president (1995-96) of the Federation of Tax Administrators; and a board member (1994-06) and president (1998-99) of the National Tax Association. He will be teaching a course titled Government Management in a Skeptical Age at the LBJ School in fall 2007.

The event is at no cost and is open to the public.

For more information about this event, contact Brendan Lavy at 512-232-4004 or blavy@austin.utexas.edu.

For those people who would like to see the presentation but are unable to attend, the event will be webcast in real-time as well as available for later viewing online. Visit the LBJ School's screening room Web site, www.utexas.edu/lbj/webcasts, on the day of the event to access the webcast. You will need to have QuickTime installed to watch the streaming video.