This past fall, Dr. Daniel Xu invited a couple of local government officials to speak in his public budgeting and finance class. Included were budget director Kenneth Hunter of the City of Rocky Mount and the finance director Byron Haynes of the City of Greenville. Kenneth Hunter is on the Department’s MPA advisory board, and Haynes is an ECU political science alumn and ECU MBA – and works under another ECU MPA advisory board member Ann Wall, the city manager of Greenville.