Title: Professor of the Practice
Director, Management, Finance and Leadership

301-314-2485
gdeseve@umd.edu

G. Edward DeSeve, former Deputy Director for Management of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), has joined the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs as Professor of the Practice and director of the school's Management, Finance and Leadership program. He will also work closely with the school's Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise.

Mr. DeSeve has held senior posts at all three levels of American government and in the private sector. He has served as Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Controller of OMB, and in 1997, he was appointed Deputy Director for Management at OMB, the highest management position in the federal government. He began his career with the City of Philadelphia serving as a junior budget analyst, Budget Director, Deputy Director for Finance and later became Director of Finance. In 1990, he served as Assistant to the Governor of Pennsylvania.

Mr. DeSeve's ability to work across sectors led him most recently to KPMG Peat Marwick as a partner and national industry director. He previously served as Management Director of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, and has established and led several consulting firms, including Public Financial Management Incorporated, which provided technical assistance to more than a dozen states and localities.

Mr. DeSeve made his mark on academia as a senior lecturer and faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Center of Government. He holds a Master of Government Administration in Public Finance from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Science in Labor Economics from Cornell University.