The University of Texas at Austin

Event: Texas State Finances: Onward Through the Fog

Speaker(s): Billy Hamilton, Former Deputy Comptroller of Public Accounts, State of Texas

Date: April 23, 2007

Length: 73 minutes

Event Series: LBJ School Alumni Association Speaker Series

Description: On April 23, the LBJ School and its alumni association welcomed Billy Hamilton, former deputy comptroller of public accounts for the State of Texas Comptroller and a graduate of the LBJ School. Mr. Hamilton discussed 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.

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