Biography Robert D. Ebel Deputy CFO, Office of Revenue Analysis Robert Ebel was appointed Deputy CFO for Revenue Analysis in October 2006. He is the principal official within the OCFO responsible for estimating revenue, developing fiscal impact statements for proposed legislation, and analyzing tax expenditures. Dr. Ebel has been a research professor at The George Washington University (GWU) Institute of Public Policy and a visiting fellow at the joint Urban Institute/Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center. Prior to joining GWU, he served as lead economist for the World Bank Institute’s Capacity Building Programs on public finance, intergovernmental relations and local financial management and the World Bank’s technical representative to the Sudan Peace Consultations (2002-2004).   At the World Bank he directed, managed, and wrote technical reports on intergovernmental fiscal relations for a wide range of countries, including Hungary, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Palestine (West Bank-Gaza Strip), Nepal, and Yemen. Dr. Ebel also served as a technical resource for the African Union at the Darfur peace talks in Abuja, Nigeria, a member of a panel of experts for the Fiscal Affairs Division at the International Monetary Fund, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Local Government and Public Sector Service Initiative (Open Society Institute/Budapest).   Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr. Ebel was director of Public Finance Research for the US Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, and director/author of tax studies for several US states (Minnesota, Nevada, Hawai’i, and South Carolina). He also served as the chairperson of the DC Tax Revision Commission and executive director of the National Tax Association (1995-2000).   Dr. Ebel has published widely and been a regular columnist for two major US newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser and the St. Paul Pioneer Press/Dispatch. He is the recipient of the Steven D. Gold Award (jointly by the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management at the National Conference of State Legislatures, and the National Tax Association) and, as a member of the West Bank/Gaza team, the World Bank President’s Award for Excellence. He received a master’s and a doctorate in economics from Purdue University and a bachelor’s degree from Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio.