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Alex Brill is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies the impact of tax policy on the US economy as well as the fiscal, economic, and political consequences of tax, budget, health care, retirement security, and trade policies. He also works on health care reform, pharmaceutical spending and drug innovation, and unemployment insurance reform. Brill is the author of a pro-growth proposal to reduce the corporate tax rate to 25 percent, and �The Real Tax Burden: More than Dollars and Cents� (2011), coauthored with Alan D. Viard. He has testified numerous times before Congress on tax policy, labor markets and unemployment insurance, Social Security reform, fiscal stimulus, the manufacturing sector, and biologic drug competition.Before joining AEI, Brill served as the policy director and chief economist of the House Ways and Means Committee. Previously, he served on the staff of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He has also served on the staff of the President's Fiscal Commission (Simpson-Bowles) and the Republican Platform Committee (2008).Brill has an M.A. in mathematical finance from Boston University and a B.A. in economics from Tufts University.

Pamela is the Executive Director for UC Berkeley�s Office of Planning & Analysis. She oversees a team of 13 analysts that provide decision support for the Berkeley campus. She and her team are responsible for enrollment planning and student outcomes analysis, academic program and curricular planning support, peer analyses and rankings, and development of Cal Answers (Berkeley�s enterprise data warehouse tool). Pamela reports to the Associate Vice Chancellor � Chief Financial Officer and in that capacity, she has supported communication efforts, including production of the Budget Plan and Annual Financial Report, which have been used to reinforce how our financial strategies support campus goals, student access and outcomes and academic excellence.

Diane E. Snyder is Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration at Alamo Colleges, San Antonio. Diane is responsible for Financial Planning, Human Resources, Facilities Planning and Management, Accounting, Business Services, Student Financial Aid, and Public Safety. She also guides the nine-member, elected Board of Trustees on matters related to Alamo Colleges� $500 million annual operating and capital budget. Diane has more than 20 years of progressively responsible experience in public accounting, operations and financial management; with a proven track record of improving operational controls and efficiencies, especially in turnaround and high growth situations. Prior to joining Alamo Colleges in 2008, Diane was an Executive Director for over twelve years for AT&T where she managed staffs of up to 225 employees and budgets of $5 million - $2.5 billion in such varied areas as accounting, internal audit, purchasing, inventory control/fulfillment, billing and revenue assurance, and call centers. At Price Waterhouse during 1987 to 1996, Diane managed audit assurance, compliance, merger and internal control assessments for a diverse client base including Mary Kay Cosmetics and East Texas Baptist University. Diane is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Higher Education Administration at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a Master of Science degree in Accounting from University of North Texas, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from Leslie College. She is an active member of the Financial Executives Institute, Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants and Texas Assoc. of Community College Business Officers. The San Antonio Business Journal recognized Ms. Snyder as Best CFO 2010 Education Category.

Rick Cosgrove is a partner in the Banking and Financial Services Department at Chapman and Cutler LLP. He has extensive experience in the representation of domestic and foreign banking institutions and leasing companies in a wide variety of financial transactions involving the extension of credit to public sector entities, including credit enhancement and liquidity facilities, the direct purchase of tax-exempt bonds, derivative products, leasing, project finance, public/private partnerships, tender option bonds and other structured financings. Rick pioneered the development of direct purchase bond programs for several of the country’s largest banks and is a noted authority in this area.

Georgia Sanchez is the Assistant City Treasurer for the City of Austin where she manages the City’s $5 billion debt and serves as an Investment Officer for the $1.8 billion investment portfolios. Georgia has nearly 20 years of public service with the City of Austin, with 13 of those years concentrating in debt, cash and investment management. Prior to her work in Treasury, she served as Capital Budget Manager, implementing and monitoring the Capital Improvements Program (CIP) Plan for the City of Austin. Georgia holds a BBA from The University of Texas at Austin.

Carlos Rubinstein was appointed chairman of the Texas Water Development Board by Governor Rick Perry on September 1, 2013. He served as a commissioner of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) from 2009�2013. He is the Texas representative to the Western States Water Council; the Border Governors' Conference Sustainable Development worktable; the Governmental Advisory Committee, which advises the EPA Administrator on environmental concerns regarding NAFTA, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation; and the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Rubinstein is a former member of the Texas Environmental Flows Advisory Group and of the Good Neighbor Environmental Board, an independent federal advisory committee that assists the president and Congress on environmental infrastructure needs along the U.S. border with Mexico. He has also served as deputy executive director of TCEQ and as Rio Grande Watermaster. He is the past Texas representative to the Border Governors' Conference Water worktable and a former city manager for the City of Brownsville. Rubinstein received a bachelor's degree in biology from Pan American University.

Mike Schulman is a partner in the Dallas office and Co-Chair of the Public Finance practice. He has substantial experience serving as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, disclosure counsel and issuer’s counsel in a wide range of public finance transactions involving state agencies and municipalities and in conduit bond issues. Mike also represents trustees, credit enhancers, and borrowers in a variety of taxable and tax-exempt bond issues. He currently serves on the Board of the North Texas Commission and has served as chair of the “Underwriter’s Counsel” panel of the Bond Attorneys Workshop sponsored by the National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL).

Mr. Klausner is the principal in the law firm of Klausner, Kaufman, Jensen & Levinson. For 36 years, he has been engaged in the practice of law, specializing in the representation of public employee pension funds. The firm represents state and local retirement systems in more than 20 states. Mr. Klausner has assisted in the drafting of many state and local laws on public employee retirement throughout the United States. He is a frequent speaker on pension education programs and has also published numerous articles on fiduciary obligations of public employee pension trustees. He is co-author of State and Local Government Employment Liability and is the author of the first comprehensive book on the law of public employee retirement systems, State and Local Government Retirement Law: A Guide for Lawyers, Trustees, and Plan Administrators, originally published in April 2009, and an expanded version published in November 2012. For more than 15 years, Mr. Klausner has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America and holds an �AV pre-eminent� rating, the highest rating for competence and ethics, from Martindale Hubbell national lawyer rating service. In 2008, Mr. Klausner successfully represented the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the Kentucky Retirement Systems in the United States Supreme Court in Kentucky Retirement Systems v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 128 S. Ct. 2361 (2008). Mr. Klausner graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Florida with a bachelor of arts and from the University Florida College of Law with the degree of juris doctor.