Allen Schick is one of the world’s foremost experts on budget policy as a professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland (1981-2019) before retiring as distinguished professor emeritus. His work on the stages of budget reform (1966) and subsequent publications influenced the understanding of public budgeting internationally. He graduated from Brooklyn College with a B.A. (1956) and received his M.A. (1959) and Ph.D. (1966) in political science at Yale University. He taught at Tufts University (1961-1968) and George Mason University (1994) and held research positions at the Brookings Institution (1968-1972), Congressional Research Service (1972-1981), the Urban Institute (1977-1978), and the American Enterprise Institute (1984-1985). As founding editor of Public Budgeting and Finance (1981-1983), he influenced an entire field. His books include Congress and Money (1982, winner of the Hardeman Prize), Budget Innovation in the States (1972), Spending, Taxing, and Budgeting (1987), The Capacity to Budget (1990), and The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process (1995). Other awards of recognition include ASPA’s Waldo Prize (1989), Brownlow Award (1973, 1977, 1979), and Mosher Award (1967), as well as APSA’s Merriam Award (1999), AAPPA’s first Blum Award (1977), NAPA fellow (1973), and Guggenheim fellowship (1988).