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Stan Collender’s financial and public affairs communications experience is extensive. During his more than two decades in communications, he has designed and implemented award-winning communications efforts for financial companies, associations, federal agencies, and trade associations. Prior to joining Qorvis, Collender worked as a managing director and general manager 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 offering.

Before joining Financial Dynamics, Collender was the national director of public affairs for Fleishman Hillard, and a senior vice president at Burson-Marsteller. He has also served as a 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.

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 column, “Budget Battles,” which has been published weekly by nationaljournal.com for more than ten years.  He is also the author of The Guide to the Federal Budget, one of the most assigned texts on the subject.
• Speaks to more than fifty business and other groups across the United States each year. He also appears frequently on radio and television news programs and is often quoted by the major newspapers and magazines and by all of 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 industries highest awards—a Silver Sabre and the 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.