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Biography

Christopher H. Flaggs
Managing Director for financial Policy, Reporting, and Analysis (FMP/F/FPRA)

Christopher H. Flaggs assumed the position of Managing Director for Financial Policy, Reporting, and Analysis in May 2000. As head of this newly established FMP organization, Mr. Flaggs is responsible for developing and issuing Department of State financial policy, preparing the Department's 5-year financial management plan, establishing department-wide financial management data and reporting requirements, and producing the Department's Annual Financial Statements. From August 1992 to May, 2000 Mr. Flaggs served the Bureau of Financial Management and Policy (FMP) as Managing Director for Domestic Financial Services. As Managing Director, of that office, he directed the wide range of fiscal services provided by domestic financial operations. These services included travel and transportation payments, vendor payments, accounts receivable, cashier services, American payroll services, Foreign Service Retirement annuity payments, Department wide financial reporting (including annual Department wide audited financial statements), implementation of accounting standards and procedures, and day-to-day operations for the Department's primary accounting system (CFMS) and American payroll system (CAPPS).

Mr. Flaggs served as Assistant Director for Financial Management at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from 1988 to 1992. As Assistant Director, he was responsible for financial policy, financial systems and financial operations, and served as OPM's representative to the Chief Financial Officer's Council. Prior to this, Mr. Flaggs served in various capacities as an accountant with the General Services Administration, The Department of the Treasury, the Department of Energy, and OPM.

Mr. Flaggs received a BS Degree from the University of Maryland where he majored in Accounting. He holds a CPA certificate in Maryland. Mr. Flaggs has received various performance awards from the agencies he has served in, and is the recipient of the OPM Director's Awards for Meritorious and Distinguished Service and the Department of State's Equal Employment Opportunity Award. Mr. Flaggs resides in Damascus, Maryland with his wife Anne and their two children.

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