News from
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Office of Communications, Stanhope Hall
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Tel 609/258-3601; Fax 609/258-1301
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Patricia Coen 609/258-5764
Date: February 4, 1998
Former US Comptroller General To Speak on Financial Accountability and the Government
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Charles A. Bowsher, former U.S. comptroller general and head of the General Accounting Office, will give a lecture entitled "Financial Reporting and Accountability: How Well Is Government Doing?" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, March 5 at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 5.
Bowsher was appointed to his fifteen-year term with the GAO in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan. Following a congressional mandate to audit, evaluate, or investigate virtually all federal operations, the GAO under Bowsher's leadership expanded its operations to produce in-depth reports and major studies on a variety of issues, including health care reform, the savings and loan crisis, and the federal budget deficit. At the same time, the agency continued to monitor high-risk government activities that could result in major losses from waste, fraud, and mismanagement.
Since his retirement from the GAO, Bowsher has served on the corporate boards of American Express Bank, the National Steel Corporation, and DeVry Inc., and on the advisory boards of Fannie Mae and the Washington Mutual Investors Fund. He is also a member of the Public Oversight Board, an independent, private-sector body that monitors and reports on the programs and activities of the SEC Practice Section of the Division for CPA firms of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Bowsher's lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
0204-bows.html