Steve Redburn

Project Director, Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform Steve Redburn is the new project director for the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform, housed at the New America Foundation. He will help the Commission analyze flaws in the federal government’s budget process that have contributed to the current unsustainable fiscal situation and identify a set of recommended reforms to produce better budget outcomes in the future. Dr. Redburn was most recently study director for the joint committee of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Public Administration whose report on options to address the long-term budget challenge, Choosing the Nation’s Fiscal Future, was released in January. Steve is a NAPA fellow and adjunct faculty member in the School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. He served as senior executive at the Office of Management and Budget until his retirement from the federal service in 2006. He worked in 2007 as advisor to the budget director of Kosovo for a USAID development project. He has authored and edited numerous academic studies on the budget, public management, and a variety of public policy issues. His Ph.D. in political science is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.