Welcome to a new year for the Executive Organization and Management Panel. We will be hosting an important discussion on the future of budgeting on January 29th at 2:00 p.m. There will be limited seating at the NAPA offices, or you can register for an online link below.
With the latest Continuing Resolutions set to expire on January 31, the failures of the current budget process come into dramatic relief. According to the Budget Process Working Group of Reform for Results, “The current failure to budget intelligently and responsibly presents the country with a strategic opportunity to undertake comprehensive reform that addresses fundamental weaknesses in the current process.”
The Group will present its proposal for “Radical Reform for the Federal Budget Process: A call to action.” This presentation welcomes all of those interested in long-term government reform. It is the beginning of a process that will lead to legislative proposals for major changes in the way the budget is presented, debated, enacted and executed.
Speakers will include:
Phil Joyce, Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland
Roy Meyers, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Steve Redburn, Professorial Lecturer, Trachtenberg School, George Washington University
Philip Joyce is Professor of Public Policy in the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. He is the author of The Congressional Budget Office: Honest Numbers, Power, and Policymaking (Georgetown University Press, 2011), two other books, and more than 60 other publications focusing primarily on public budgeting and performance management. Dr. Joyce also has 12 years of public sector work experience, including five years with the United States Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Professor Joyce is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and received the Aaron Wildavsky Award for lifetime scholarship in public budgeting and finance in 2012.
Roy T. Meyers is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County). After receiving his PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan, he served as an Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office from 1981 to1990. Meyers is an author of works on normative budgeting models, the Congressional budget process, federal government budgeting, state government budgeting, and local economic development policies, and received the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management 2018 Aaron Wildavsky Award for lifetime achievement in budgeting and financial management.
Steve Redburn is a Professorial Lecturer in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University. After serving as a federal career executive for the Office of Management and Budget, his work has included consulting internationally on budget process, authoring numerous published articles and monographs on budget process reform, and serving as a study director for the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Public Administration, where he is a Fellow.