Career Brief
Dr. Gandhi is responsible for the city's finances, including its $5.7 billion operating budget and its bond obligations. Dr. Gandhi was nominated to this position by Mayor Anthony A. Williams and appointed on June 7, 2000. On November 6, 2001, the Council of the District of Columbia unanimously approved the Mayor's nomination of Dr. Gandhi to a new five-year term as CFO.

In the years since the return of home rule, Dr. Gandhi has built on the District's financial progress by securing rating upgrades for the city's general obligation bonds from the major rating agencies. In June 2003, Standard and Poor's and Fitch Ratings upgraded the District to A, a rating the city had not received since 1995. In April 2004, Moody's Investors Service rated the District's bonds A2—its first "A"-level rating for the District ever.

Prior to this appointment, Dr. Gandhi served as deputy chief financial officer for the Office of Tax and Revenue (OTR), leading an organization that administers the District of Columbia's tax laws and annually collects more than $3 billion in local revenues. Prior to his appointment to OTR, Dr. Gandhi served as associate director of tax policy and administration for the US General Accounting Office (GAO), where he managed major research projects involving financial and tax policy analysis and testified on tax issues before congressional and state legislative committees. In 1990, Dr. Gandhi served as a special assistant to New Jersey Governor Jim Florio, for whom he studied the state pension system and advised on changes in its funding.

Dr. Gandhi holds a doctorate in accounting from Louisiana State University, a master's degree in business administration from Atlanta University, and an LLB and BCom in accounting from the University of Bombay.