David Crane

Government accounting, pension funding, government finance and investment policies, political reform and state governance.

David Crane is a lecturer in the Public Policy Program at Stanford University and president of Govern For California. From 2004 – 2010 he served as a special advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and from 1979-2003 he was a partner at Babcock & Brown, a financial services company. Crane also serves as on the boards of the Volcker-Ravitch Task Force on the State Budget Crisis, Building America’s Future and the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco and is a member of the University of California's Investment Advisory Group. Formerly he served on the University of California Board of Regents and the boards of the California State Teachers Retirement System, the California High Speed Rail Authority, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Environmental Defense Fund, Legal Services for Children and the San Francisco Day School. Crane received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1975 and his J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law in 1980.