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Stan Collender’s financial and public affairs communications experience is extensive. During his three decades in communications, he has designed and implemented award-winning communications efforts for financial companies, Wall Street firms, trade associations, and federal agencies. Prior to joining Qorvis, Collender was the general manager of the Washington Office of Financial Dynamics Business Communications where he rapidly built their corporate and public affairs client base in DC, directed FD’s efforts to establish a public affairs practice in the United States and significantly enhanced the agency’s global public affairs capabilities.

Before joining Financial Dynamics, Collender was national director of public affairs for Fleishman Hillard and a senior vice president at Burson-Marsteller. He also served as the director of federal budget policy for two major international accounting firms—Price Waterhouse and Touche Ross—and as president of the Budget Research Group, a private Washington-based consulting organization.

Collender also has extensive experience on Capitol Hill and is considered to be one of the leading experts on the U.S. budget and congressional budget process. He is one of only a handful of people who has worked for the House and Senate Budget Committees and has worked for three U.S. representatives who served on the House Budget and Ways and Means Committees.

Pertinent Background & Relationships

• One of the leading experts on federal fiscal and monetary policies, Congress, and Wall Street’s response to Washington tax and spending policies.
• Writes the very popular weekly column, “Fiscal Fitness,” in Roll Call, the very influential Capitol Hill newspaper. He previously wrote, “Budget Battles,” which was published weekly by nationaljournal.com for more than 10 years. He is also the author of The Guide to the Federal Budget, one of the most assigned texts on the subject, and the founder of “Capital Gains and Games,” one of the principal financial and political blogs.
• Speaks to more than 50 business and other groups across the United States each year, appears frequently on radio and television news programs, and is often quoted by major newspapers and magazines and by all the primary wire services.
• Appointed by President Clinton to the presidential commission chaired by Jon Corzine that studied whether the U.S. should have a capital budget.
• Received two of the public relations industry’s highest awards—a Silver Sabre and PR Week Award. He has also received the Howard Award for lifetime achievement in federal budgeting from the American Society for Public Administration.

Education

Collender holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. from New York University in Politics and Psychology.