Session 21: The Budget View from the Congress

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Speakers

Stan Collender
Managing Director
Qorvis Communications

Stan Collender’s financial and public affairs communications experience is extensive. During his three decades in communications, he has designed and implemented award-winning communications efforts for financial companies, Wall Street firms, trade associations, and federal agencies. Prior to joining Qorvis, Collender was the general manager of the Washington Office of Financial Dynamics Business Communications where he rapidly built their corporate and public affairs client base in DC, directed FD’s efforts to establish a public affairs practice in the United States and significantly enhanced the agency’s global public affairs capabilities.

Before joining Financial Dynamics, Collender was national director of public affairs for Fleishman Hillard and a senior vice president at Burson-Marsteller. He also served as the director of federal budget policy for two major international accounting firms—Price Waterhouse and Touche Ross—and as president of the Budget Research Group, a private Washington-based consulting organization.

Collender also has extensive experience on Capitol Hill and is considered to be one of the leading experts on the U.S. budget and congressional budget process. He is one of only a handful of people who has worked for the House and Senate Budget Committees and has worked for three U.S. representatives who served on the House Budget and Ways and Means Committees.

Collender holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. from New York University in Politics and Psychology.

Matt Salomon
Chief Economist
Senate Budget Committee

Matt Salamon is the Chief Economist at the Senate Budget Committee, where he montiors economic developments and thier implciations for fiscal and monetary policy. Before this, he has served on the staffs of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Senate, and the Congressional Budget Office. He has an MA in Political Economy from The Johns Hopkins University, a BA in Mathematics from Boston, University, and an MFA in English literature from American University.

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