APPLETON, WIS. — Scott Quehl, a 1988 Lawrence graduate, has been nominated by President Barack Obama for the post of Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Administration, Department of Commerce. The appointment is subject to a hearing confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
Quehl, who also served as a member of President Clinton’s administration, is currently president of Quehl Advisors, LLC and a senior managing director at Public Resources Advisory Group, providing counsel to state and local governments on capital market, budgeting and management initiatives.
He also has served as managing director for tax-exempt capital markets at JPMorgan Securities, Inc. and was managing director at Public Financial Management, Inc., where he served as a management and budget advisor to the several local and state authorities. During his tenure at Public Financial Management, Quehl took a leave of absence to serve as acting, then permanent, chief financial officer of the Metropolitan Police Department.
As a member of the Clinton administration, Quehl served in the Office of Management and Budget, Office of Federal Financial Management. Prior to that appointment, he served as The World Bank’s Country Officer for the Dominican Republic in a consulting capacity, co-managed the development of the Secondary Education Project for the Dominican Republic and advised the governments of Colombia and Bolivia on the decentralization of financial and management authority to sub-national governments.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from Lawrence, Quehl served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sabanagrande, Honduras. He went on to earn a master’s degree in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania.
