Thad D. Calabrese

Thad D. Calabrese, PhD, is Professor of public and nonprofit financial management at NYU Wagner, and is director of the school’s finance specialization. His research focuses on not-for-profit and govenment accounting and finance and is published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Public Budgeting & Finance, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, National Tax Journal, Public Finance Review, and Nonprofit Management & Leadership (NML), among others. In addition, he has served in several member-elected positions, including Chair of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management and Treasurer for the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. He also served on the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council for six years until 2023. Prior to entering academia, he worked as a financial manager in the not-­for-profit sector and in local government.