NYU Wagner

Dall W. Forsythe teaches governmental and nonprofit financial management. His current research interests center on the finances of New York City and New York State.

Forsythe has extensive management experience in the governmental, private and not-for-profit sectors. In government, he served as budget director for the State of New York and for the New York City Board of Education. In the private sector, he worked as a managing director in Lehman Brother–s public finance department. In the nonprofit sector, Forsythe served as chief administrative officer of the Episcopal Diocese of New York for four years.

Before joining the faculty of the Wagner School, Forsythe held faculty positions at Columbia University; the Kennedy School at Harvard; the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College (CUNY); and SUNY–s University of Albany. He also spent three years as a senior fellow at the Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany.

Forsythe received his bachelor's degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is author of two books, including Memos to the Governor: An Introduction to State Budgeting (Georgetown University Press, 2004), as well as several papers and articles. He has also edited Quicker, Better, Cheaper? Performance Management in American Government (Rockefeller Institute Press, 2001). In 1998, he received the S. Kenneth Howard Award, a career achievement award from the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM).

Forsythe has served on a number of nonprofit boards, and chairs the board of the Fund for the City of New York.  He has also been a member of the board of the Municipal Assistance Corporation and the chair of the advisory board for the New York City Independent Budget Office. In 2004 and 2005, he served as a member and vice-chair of the Charter Revision Commission of the City of New York.  He is a member of New York City's Audit Committee.