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Guilbert Brown is the Director of Budget & Financial Planning at George Mason University in Fairfax VA, and previously served as budget director at Rice University, Georgetown University and Oregon State University. For five years Gil conducted workshops on strategic budgeting for the National Association of College & University Business Officers (NACUBO). He has presented workshops and annual meeting sessions for NACUBO, the Society for College & University Planning (SCUP) and numerous other organizations, and has served as a consultant to private and public institutions on enrollment management, budget and information systems strategies.