Albert Kliman

Albert J. Kliman served as the long-standing budget director of the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs. He received both an undergraduate degree (1955) and MPA (1961) from Harvard, and began his federal career in the budget office of the Department of Agriculture in 1957, then joined HUD’s budget department in 1966 and held a number of key positions before becoming its director in 1975 and held it until retirement in 1990. Kliman wrote journal articles on “The Gore Report on Budgeting” (1993) and, for Public Budgeting & Finance (1996), “Confessions of a Dinosaur.” He served as president of AABPA and received both the Meritorious Executive and Distinguished Federal Executive awards from the President during his federal service. After retirement, he was an associate at the Institute for Financial Management at the University of Maryland and a project director and Fellow (2008) of the National Academy of Public Administration.