Guilbert Brown

Guilbert Brown July 2009Guilbert Brown is the Director of Budget and Financial Planning at George Mason University in Fairfax VA, a public institution in the Washington DC metropolitan area enrolling over 30,000 students, and serves as a Senior Consultant for AACRAO Consulting. He is a co-author of the book SEM and Institutional Success: Integrating Enrollment, Finance and Student Access (AACRAO publishing, 2008) and has served as the chief budget and planning officer at Rice University, Georgetown University and Oregon State University.

He has worked as a consultant to private and public institutions on linking strategic enrollment management with financial planning, information systems selection and implementation, indirect cost proposal development, budget and planning process reengineering, organizational transformation, financial transparency strategies, and implementing models for financing intercollegiate athletics, research and information technology. He has trained over 1,000 college and university budget officers in multi-year strategic budget planning for the National Association of College & University Business Officers (NACUBO), and has conducted workshops and annual meeting sessions for NACUBO, the Society for College & University Planning (SCUP), the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), AACRAO and numerous other organizations.

Mr. Brown is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Denver with degrees in political science and philosophy.