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Catherine A. Provencher was sworn in as State Treasurer on January 3, 2007 to begin serving her first two year term.

The Treasurer is responsible for cash management and investment of more than $300 million daily; banking relationships; debt management (issuance of notes and bonds); and trust fund management. In addition to supervising a 26 member department carrying out the functions of a corporate treasurer's office, the State Treasurer is also statutorily appointed to numerous boards and committees including the following: New Hampshire Municipal Bond Bank, Board of Trust Company Incorporation, Nuclear Decommissioning Financing Committee, New Hampshire Retirement System, Business Finance Authority, New Hampshire College Tuition Savings Plan Advisory Commission, the New Hampshire School Building Authority, Deferred Compensation Commission, Cannon Mountain Advisory Commission, and the Public Deposit Investment Pool. The State Treasurer also is Administrator of the State Revolving Fund Program for Pollution Control and the Seabrook Nuclear Decommissioning Trust.

Catherine Provencher is a certified public accountant who has been employed in New Hampshire State service for the past 21 years. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Accountancy from Bentley College and a Masters in Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University.

Before being elected State Treasurer, Ms. Provencher was employed by the New Hampshire Office of Legislative Budget since 1985. She served as the Office’s Director of Audits from 1997 through 2006. In her role as legislative auditor she led a team of thirty professionals conducting both financial/compliance and performance audits of New Hampshire State government. In this capacity, Ms. Provencher gained a keen understanding of the inner workings of New Hampshire State government. During her career she has worked closely with the legislature and all State agencies identifying and reporting financial and programmatic areas needing improvement and effectively communicating recommendations.

In 2006, Ms. Provencher was awarded the prestigious Caroline Gross Fellowship for Persons Active in New Hampshire Public Service. This Fellowship afforded Ms. Provencher the opportunity to attend Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government Executive Education program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government.

Ms. Provencher has served in leadership roles in the government audit community both nationally and regionally. She was Chair of the New England Governmental Audit Forum and participated through the National Audit Forum as a member of a Strategic Planning Knowledge Sharing Group.

Ms. Provencher is a member in good standing of the American institute of Certified Public Accountants and is actively involved in volunteer work in her hometown of Merrimack, New Hampshire where she lives with her husband and two children.