Comptroller General of the United States
The United States Comptroller General is the director of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) (formerly known as Government Accounting Office), a government agency founded in 1921 to ensure the accountability of the federal government.
The Comptroller General is appointed for a fifteen-year term by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the Senate. The current Comptroller General is David M. Walker, who became the seventh Comptroller General of the United States on November 9, 1998.