Diana Fortuna

Diana Fortuna (born 1956) is an American businesswoman, who is the Chief Financial Officer and deputy general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. She spent about 15 years working in government budget positions and was the president of the Citizens Budget Commission in New York City from 1998 to February 2008.

Fortuna was raised in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from Harvard University and then received an MBA from Columbia Business School. She is the daughter of Walter and Marilyn Fortuna.

In the early 1980s, Fortuna began her career at New York City's Office of Management and Budget, where she eventually became Deputy Budget Director under Mayor Ed Koch. Beginning in 1990, she served in the New York State Office of Federal Affairs in Washington, D.C., where she analyzed federal policy issues. In 1993, she became a policy aide to the Administrator of the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration, and in 1995, she joined the White House Domestic Policy Council, becoming Associate Director and working on welfare, health, disability and national service issues.

In 1998, Fortuna became the president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a non-profit watchdog group that monitors the finances and operations of New York City and New York State government. While at the CBC, Fortuna generally advocated controlling New York State spending more and reducing New York State's public debt load. She also supported Mayor Mike Bloomberg's plan to implement congestion pricing in New York City. In analyzing New York's 2007–08 budget, Fortuna wrote, "Albany's ingrained political culture remains highly dysfunctional; the budget process is still too secretive and convoluted, and the state's fiscal practices are still far out of line with those of other states – leaving New Yorkers the nation's most heavily taxed people."

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