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Ed Harrington was Controller for the City and County of San Francisco from 1991 to 2008 and the General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission from 2008 to 2012. During that time he was also Chair of the Water Utility Climate Alliance, President of the Government Finance Officers Association and a member of the Financial Accounting Foundation Board. Since his retirement Ed has worked extensively with governmental and non-profit organizations. Ed is the chair of the San Francisco Commission Streamlining Task Force. He is on the board of the national Children’s Funding Project and an adviser to California’s Funding the Next Generation. He was the treasurer of SPUR and Greenpeace International for a number of years and is currently the treasurer of WEDO, a global women’s advocacy organization. Ed also taught at the University of San Francisco in the Masters in Urban and Public Affairs program from 2015 to 2022. He has served as a member of the San Francisco Public Utilities and Port Commissions. Ed is an advisor to the WaterNow Alliance, an organization of elected and appointed officials who oversee local utility agencies, focusing on financing green distributed water and wastewater infrastructure.