Diana Urban named 1 of 7 Public Officials of the Year by Governing Magazine

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Cites RBA as key to her work on budget reform in Connecticut. And check out the election story in The Day: “Urban, accountability are both winners.”

Whenever Diana Urban drives to work, she’s listening to her local NPR station. And anytime talk turns to the state budget, the Connecticut representative calls in to chat. “The hosts now say, ‘OK, it’s Rep. Urban again, we know this is going to be about RBA!'”

The fight for RBA — results-based accountability — has been the defining aspect of Urban’s career. Upon arriving to the Connecticut Legislature in 2001, she saw a broken system that would never achieve accountable, transparent and efficient government. She also saw the answer in RBA. “I started in on performance, standards, results, accountability, and I backed it up with my knowledge of economics,” she says. “And that is a potent combination-somebody who’s willing to fight for an issue and has a lot of ammunition from 20 years of teaching economics.”

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Mark FriedmanDiana Urban named 1 of 7 Public Officials of the Year by Governing Magazine

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