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Clarence Crawford
Chief Financial Officer, Office of Personnel Management
BS/SPA'77, MPA/SPA'79

The changes in the federal governement have been nothing less than dramatic, according to Clarence Crawford. A leading senior government executive, he should know because he has been with the government since 1979 when he joined the IRS as a Presidential Management Intern.

Now CFO at the Office of Personnel Management, Crawford identifies the area of finance as a measure of how far government has come in recent years.

"People would have laughed at the idea of a clean financial audit opinion in the federal government," he recalls from his early career. "Now we have clean opinions in all but one agency."

Since arriving at OPM in 2002, Crawford's mission has been to modernize the agency's financial management program, including accounting and budgeting for $700 billion in employee benefit funds.

Crawford has noticed that the greater flow between the public and private sectors, prompted by the federal retirement ...[read more...]

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