David Mathieson

David Gregory Mathieson [February 18, 1936 – June 13, 2020] was a top civil servant in OMB. He began his career as a budget analyst in the Bureau of the Budget (1961). He then worked overseas for the Agency for International Development. Back in the U.S. in 1972, he returned to OMB where he became head of the Fiscal Analysis Branch and later Deputy Director of the Office of Budget Review. On leave from OMB in 1998, he served as executive director of the bipartisan National Economic Commission. His last government position was as special assistant to the director of GAO, and then spent two years in Paris at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. AABPA recognized him with the Blum Award (1989). He periodically taught at the Yale School of Management and later at American University and the University of Maryland. He graduated from Oberlin College and received his MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton.