Linda Bilmes

Professor Linda Bilmes is an expert on government budgeting and public finance, a faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School and a former Assistant Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of the US Department of Commerce. She has co-authored multiple books and book chapters and has written extensively on the cost of war, veterans’ issues, national parks, municipal budgeting and financial topics. Her research has been published in the New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and other media. She serves on numerous boards including the US Department of Interior National Parks Advisory Committee and the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and holds a BA and MBA from Harvard University and a D.Phil from the University of Oxford.