2021 Presentations by U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro

Virtual Presentation to the Federal Enterprise Risk Management (AFERM) on GAO’s 2021 High Risk list as well as how federal government agencies should evaluate and respond to systemic risks, October 26, 2021.

Virtual Presentation to the AICPA Council on GAO’s 100th Anniversary, October 19, 2021.

Presentation to the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management Group (ABFM) on current issues in federal budgeting and GAO’s 100th Anniversary, September 30, 2021.

Presentation to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants on GAO’s Work on the Federal Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, August 16, 2021. See presentation. (PDF, 46 pages)

Presentation to Romania Court of Accounts President and Plenum members on performance auditing, July 28, 2021. 

Participated in World Bank Webinar on Enhancing Accountability through Independent Supreme Audit Institutions, July 27, 2021.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKDmUH34IBg

Appeared on the TV program Washington Journal to talk about GAO’s 100^th anniversary and oversight of Coronavirus spending on July 21, 2021. https://www.c-span.org/video/?513374-6/washington-journal-gene-dodaro-discusses-coronavirus-spending

Presented on several topics – including GAO’s Centennial, Fiscal Health report, High Risk, Duplication and Fragmentation report and Best Places to Work – to the Association of Government Accountants Professional Development Training, July 19, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssQJpcI6N1g

Presented on GAO’s work on the Pandemic, The Nation’s Fiscal Health and High Risk progress to the Association of Government Accountants, D.C. Chapter, April 28, 2021. See presentation. (PDF, 5 pages)

Discussed GAO’s work and the role of the Comptroller General on “The Search for Accountability,” a Federal News Network radio program, on March 19, 2021. https://federalnewsnetwork.com/search-for-accountability/2021/04/comptroller-general-gene-dodaro/

Appeared on the TV program Government Matters to talk about the latest additions to and removals from GAO’s High Risk List of troubled areas across the federal government, on March 7, 2021. https://govmatters.tv/greater-federal-leadership-needed-to-address-drug-misuse-problem-says-gao-leader/

Spoke with Federal News Network as part of a radio interview on GAO’s 2021 High Risk List of government areas vulnerable to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement or needing broad-based transformation, on March 4, 2021. https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2021/03/agencies-regressing-on-some-key-high-risk-challenges-gao-says/

Appeared on the podcast Facing the Future, produced by The Concord Coalition, where he discussed his role as Comptroller General, the history of GAO, some of GAO’s reports and tools relative to fiscal policy, and finding common ground in policymaking as the new Congress begins and the Biden Administration takes office, on January 20, 2021. https://www.concordcoalition.org/blog-post/gao-guardrails-needed-long-term-fiscal-policy