Executive Director's Bio

Relmond P. Van Daniker, DBA, CPA

Relmond Van Daniker has worked in the government financial management field for 30 years, including 26 years with associations.  He is currently the executive director of AGA – the Association of Government Accountants - since October 2003. Prior to this, he spent 18 years as the Executive Director of the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers (NASACT).

Van Daniker is a past national president of the International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management (ICGFM) and was a professor of accounting at the University of Kentucky for more than 30 years.

He spent three years as assistant director with the Cost Accounting Standards Board and chaired a task force to develop and implement a new statewide accounting system for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Van Daniker was also the principal investigator for the National Science Foundation grant to develop generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for state governments.

He is a frequent contributor to financial management industry professional journals and is the co-author of 10 books and monographs. Van Daniker received AGA’s Author Award in 1983, and the AGA National President’s Award in 2001.

A native of Baltimore, MD, Van Daniker received his undergraduate degree in accounting from Loyola College, an MBA in finance and a DBA in accounting from the University of Maryland. He is a member of AGA and the AICPA.