Katherine E. Collins

Katherine E. Collins, Vice President for Finance, was appointed in 2005.  Her responsibilities include overseeing the Budget Office, the Controller’s Office, the Office of Institutional Research and the Office of Institutional Effectiveness. Ms. Collins served as the Budget Director at Rice from 1995 through 2005.  Before coming to Rice, she served as the Director of Budget for the U.S. Department of Transportation from 1988 to 1995 and as a Budget Examiner at the Office of Management and Budget, in the Executive Office of the President of the United States from 1979 to 1988.  Ms. Collins began her career as a Budget Analyst for the Illinois Bureau of the Budget in 1976 after receiving her master’s degree in City Planning from Harvard University that same year.  Ms. Collins earned her bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies from Mount Holyoke College in 1974.