J. Christopher Mihm

Chris Mihm is the Managing Director for Strategic Issues at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). He leads GAO’s work on government-wide governance, strategy, and transformation issues. Strategic Issues addresses such topics as performance management and collaboration, human capital management, intergovernmental issues, federal budgeting, regulatory policy, and federal tax policy and administration.

Chris is an elected member of the United Nations Independent Audit Advisory Committee, where he advises the United Nations General Assembly on the effectiveness of the internal audit and other oversight functions and UN risk management, internal control and other issues. He chaired the Committee from 2013-2016 and is the Vice Chair in 2017.

Chris is the Deputy Chair of the Audit and Compliance Committee of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).

He is a fellow and former Board Chair of the National Academy of Public Administration and an adjunct lecturer in public administration at the University Of Maryland Graduate School Of Public Policy.