Advisor to the D.C. Policy Makers John McClelland ’87 has spent the last 22 years working in Washington, D.C. in roles that provide advice to policy makers on how changes in tax policy impact the public and the economy. He joined the federal civil service in 1997 as a Financial Economist in the Office of Tax Analysis at the Department of the Treasury, and was later selected to join the Senior Executive Service which is the top rung of civil service and typically works closely with Presidential appointees. In that role, he became the Director of Revenue Estimating for the Department of the Treasury, and in 2012 he was appointed the Special Assistant to the Director of Tax Analysis where he helped to manage the work of the Office of
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