Richard Keevey held senior positions in the New Jersey state government and in two federal agencies. He is a former budget director and comptroller for New Jersey (1983-1994), having been appointed by two governors. He was CFO for HUD (1997-1999) after serving as Deputy Under Secretary for Finance for the US Dept. of Defense (1994-1995) and Director of the Defense Finance and Accounting Agency (1995-1997). He received the DOD Medal for Distinguished Service and its Medal for Outstanding Service. He was the practice director for Arthur Anderson and Unisys Corporation. As a 2007 Fellow at NAPA, he directed the performance management consortium (2004-2007). He served as Director of Policy Research for the Region at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton (2007-2010) and held visiting professor status there and as Executive in Residence at the Bloustein School of Planning and Policy, Rutgers University. Keevey holds a bachelors in political science from La Salle College and an MPA from Wharton Graduate School, University of Pennsylvania.