Linda Bilmes

Linda J. Bilmes
Born	1960 (age 56–57)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University (B.A., government) Harvard Business School (M.B.A.)

Linda J. Bilmes (born 1960) is the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University. She is a full-time faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School where she teaches public policy, budgeting and public finance.

She is a leading national expert on financial, budgeting, veterans and civil service issues. Bilmes is widely credited with drawing attention to the cost of the Iraq War and to the long-term cost of caring for returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. She has received numerous awards and distinctions from peace groups and veterans organizations. She is the recipient of the 2008 “Speaking Truth to Power” Award from the American Friends Service Committee. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (United States). She serves on the Board of Directors for Economists for Peace and Security and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families. She is a contributor to the Eisenhower Study Group/Brown University cost of war study. [1] She has testified to the US Congress on numerous occasions regarding the costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the long-term consequences for providing veterans care. Bilmes is a faculty affiliate of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Rappaport Center for Greater Boston. At Harvard, Professor Bilmes founded and runs an applied field learning lab that brings teams of students to assist local communities with budgeting and financial challenges. She also conducts budgeting workshops for the biennial Harvard Institute of Politics training sessions for newly elected Mayors and Members of Congress. Bilmes also teaches and conducts research at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, where she is a visiting fellow at Brasenose College.

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