William Glasgall is Senior Director, Public Finance, at the Volcker Alliance, a New York-based nonprofit organization where he has supervised the publication of numerous working papers and studies, including five Truth and Integrity in State Budgeting reports (2015-21). He is also the creator of the Special Briefing webcast series co-produced with the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Urban Research, where is a Fellow and co-lead of the Initiative for State and Local Fiscal Stability. Previously, he was Managing Editor for states and municipalities at Bloomberg News, Senior Editor at BusinessWeek Magazine, Editorial Director of Investment Advisor magazine, and a vice president at Standard & Poor’s. He is also a member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and a Governor of the Overseas Press Club Foundation. A Boston University graduate, he was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University and a DAAD Fellow at the University of Bonn, Germany.