Gene Dodaro

Eugene Louis Dodaro (born May 7, 1951) is the comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

This change of titles is a result of the organization-wide restructuring rather than a promotion or other event in his career; from May 1999 through to March 12, 2008, Dodaro retained the position of second in command of the GAO.

[1] Dodaro attended Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and graduated in 1973[2] receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree[3] in accounting.

[5] On February 15, 2008, when the seventh comptroller general of the United States, David M. Walker, announced that he was departing from his office before the end of his 15-year term to work for the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, he appointed Dodaro to replace him.

On March 13, 2008, Dodaro became the acting comptroller general[6] and was eventually nominated by President Obama to fill the role on a permanent.

Dodaro in 1985