Billy C. Hamilton served as deputy comptroller of public accounts for the State of Texas Comptroller from 1999-2006. In 2004, Hamilton worked on special assignment for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on the California Performance Review, and 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. 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 received his B.A. in government from the University of Texas at Austin and his M.P.Aff. from the LBJ School of Public Affairs.