2024 Conference
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Keynote
Budgeting for the UW: People, Places, Practices
As members of the Finance community, we share in a common mission to ensure that our financial resources are effectively and efficiently used to advance the Wisconsin Idea through groundbreaking research, transformational teaching, and impactful community outreach.
A budget is defined as a plan, using numbers. To open this year’s Finance@UW conference we wanted to take a deep dive into our $3.9 billion operating “plan.” Where does all this revenue come from? What guides our decision-making in determining how much to allocate to each of our campus units? How have recent investments improved the excellence of this institution? What budgeting challenges do we anticipate in the coming years?  We look forward to a robust discussion of this foundational aspect of university finances.
About the Keynote
David Murphy was named associate vice chancellor for finance at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in August 2018.
The associate vice chancellor for finance is responsible for financial management, planning and stewardship of UW–Madison and its $3 billion operating budget. Murphy oversees a wide range of campus units, including the Budget Office, Business Services (including Accounting Services) and Auxiliary Operations Analysis.
Murphy was previously at the University of Chicago from 2010-2018, first as budget director and then associate vice president for finance. He previously held budget and finance leadership positions at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Harvard University and Brown University.
He has an MBA from Boston University and a bachelor’s degree in English from Fairfield University.