David Cain MPA

CSUN/CPP Professor

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David Cain has more than 47 years of professional managerial experience in both the public and private sectors.  He has 30-plus years of public sector management experience at the executive level in six local California agencies and retired from the City of Fountain Valley in 2017.  Since 2017, he has served as interim finance director and is continuing to provide financial consulting services to a number of southern California public agencies.  David is in his fourteenth year of teaching graduate students in both CSUN and CPP Masters of Public Administration programs.  David has served the California Society of Municipal Finance Officers (CSMFO) as a Board Member and Committee Chair/Senior Advisor for a number of committees.  He is currently the Senior Advisor for the Career Development, and a member of the Program Committees.  He serves as a mentor in both the CSMFO and Biola University mentorship programs.  He has been an instructor for the GFOA Budget Academy and is currently an instructor for several of CSMFO’s Core Training classes.  David was honored to be chosen as the recipient of CSMFO’s “Distinguished Service Award” in 2020.  When not working, David enjoys worldwide traveling with his wife and family including their two grandchildren.  He serves as an Assistant Boy Scout Leader for his grandson’s Chino Scout Troop 202.  David Cain received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Biola University and his Master of Public Administration degree from California State University, Northridge.