Who's Who in Budgeting and Public Expenditures

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The Secretariat for the working parties of Senior Budget Officials and for Public Employment and Management is provided by the Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division (BUD) of the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate (GOV). Contact us at sbo.news@oecd.org.

	Barry Anderson is the Head of the Division. From the United States, Barry previously held posts as Deputy Director of the Congressional Budget Office and as Assistant Director for Budget in the Office of Management and Budget. He has also been a Budget Advisor for the International Monetary Fund, an Economist at the General Accounting Office, and a Lecturer at George Washington University.
	Jón R. Blöndal is Deputy Head of Division and Editor-in-Chief of the OECD Journal on Budgeting. A citizen of Iceland, Jón held a number of posts in the Icelandic Ministry of Finance and the Office of the Prime Minister prior to joining the OECD in 1995. Jón received his degree from George Washington University. Jón is also a member (observer) of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board.
	Hyun Deok Choi, on secondment from the Korean Ministry of Government Administraton and Home Affairs, is a Project Manager for the work on organisational management and governance issues. He holds a Masters degree in public administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
	Teresa Curristine is responsible for the OECD Senior Budget Officials Network on Performance and Results. She also works on accountability and control, and country budget reviews. Teresa co-ordinated the directorate-wide project on public sector modernisation. Prior to joining the OECD, she was a lecturer at Oxford University. Teresa is of Irish-American nationality and holds a PhD from Oxford University.
	Ian Hawkesworth, a Danish national, is the Administrator responsible for the budget practices and procedures database and also works on country budgeting reviews. Ian previously worked at the Ministry of Finance in Denmark, among other things co-ordinating the implementation of accrual budgeting, modernisation of government, and budget examinations. Ian holds an MSc. in comparative politics from the London School of Economics and an MSc. in political science and economics from the University of Copenhagen. He was Associate Professor for a number of years at the latter university.
	Oscar Huerta Melchor is a Mexican national. He is a policy analyst on human resource management. Before joining the OECD, Oscar worked for the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the National Institute for Public Administration and the Institute for Social Security for Government Employees in Mexico. He holds a Masters and a PhD in comparative public policy from the University of York, United Kingdom.
	Dirk-Jan Kraan, on secondment from the Netherlands Ministry of Finance, is a Project Manager working on country budget reviews and special studies in the area of budgeting (reallocation, off-budget and tax expenditures). Dirk contributes to the work on fiscal relations between levels of government and on government indicators. Dirk holds Masters degrees in law and economics and a Ph.D in economics. Dirk also taught for ten years at Erasmus University.
	Hélène Leconte-Lucas is the Assistant to Barry Anderson and for the entire Division, in close co-operation with Lyora Raab. For many years, Hélène has been involved with the work of all the Senior Budget Officials networks. She has previous experience as Managing Editor of a monthly magazine on the subject of exports and as Project Manager in the field of aid to emerging countries with a private international marketing company. Hélène is a French national.
	Juan Luis Nieto Fernández, on secondment from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Finance, is a Senior Policy Analyst for the work on budgeting and public sector financial management issues. He recently held posts as Secretary General of the Spanish Economic and Social Council, a government consultative body, and as assistant on budgeting, finance and social security at the Cabinet of the Spanish Minister of Economy and Finance. As a civil servant in the Ministry of Economy and Finance, he worked as auditor and financial controller on public expenditure. Juan Luis holds a Masters degree in public finance from George Washington University.
	Elsa Pilichowski, a French and Canadian national, is responsible for the work of the Public Employment and Management Working Party. She has led many projects on different sub-themes of human resource management in government, and has also worked on government structure and agencification. Elsa holds Master's degrees from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and from the Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) in Maryland, United States.
	Lyora Raab, from Germany, is an Assistant in the Division. One of her major responsibilities is the Outreach work of the Division, especially the Senior Budget Officials Network of Central, Eastern and South Eastern European Countries. Lyora has a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Business from the American University of Paris. Before joining the OECD in 2001, she worked for the International Herald Tribune where she was responsible for the International Funds Page.
	Deirdre Wolfender, from the United States, is an Assistant, in charge of the Division's publications. Deirdre has a degree in English studies from the University of Houston and a degree in French studies from the University of Strasbourg. Before joining the OECD, she worked for a newspaper, a university library, and a French language school.