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Oregon
- State Controller
John Radford
- Biography
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ohn has over 30 years of government financial management experience starting his career working for the City of Omaha, Nebraska in various financial management positions. In 1983, he moved to Oregon and began work as Budget Officer in the Oregon Judicial Department and was promoted to Management Services Director in 1985. In 1989, then Governor Neil Goldschmidt appointed John to the position of Administrator of the Oregon State Controller's Division, Department of Administrative Services. He has served in this capacity under four Oregon governors.
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In 1991, John participated in a People to People government financial management visitation to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. In 1997 he participated in a US Treasury/USAID sponsored program in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia assessing public financial management practices in war-torn Bosnia. In 1999, he traveled to The Republic of Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia to assess and make recommendations on financial accounting and reporting improvements to the Kyrgyzstan Ministry of Finance and the United States Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan. At the close of the millennium, John was part of a government delegation meeting with public officials in Israel on issues related to public finance and labor management. In late 2002 and at the request of the People’s Republic of China, John represented Oregon and the United States at an International Symposium on Treasury Accounts held in Hungzhou.
John earned a bachelors degree in General Business from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, holds an MA in Public Administration from the University of Nebraska, and earned an MS in Applied Information Management from the University of Oregon in 1996. John is a Certified Internal Auditor (1974) a Certified Government Financial Manager (1997), and a Certified Fraud Examiner (2002).
He is a member and first vice-president of the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers, and Treasurers (NASACT); and served as the 1999-2000 President of the National Association of State Comptrollers (NASC). He earned the NASC President’s Award in 1997 and the NASACT President’s Award in 1999.
He is a member of the Government Finance Officers Association, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the Association of Government Accountants. He was a founding officer of the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council. He is a trustee of the Center for Governmental Financial Management. He is Past President and member of the Oregon State Fiscal Officers Association and an associate member of the Oregon Society of CPA's.
In 2001, John contributed a chapter in the book Essays on Leadership; 21st Century Government published by the National Association of State Auditors Comptrollers and Treasurers and sponsored by American Management Systems.
John was honorably discharged from the United States Air Force and served one year in Vietnam.
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