Richard Greene, a principal in Barrett and Greene, Inc., along with his wife and collaborator Katherine Barrett, is known nationally for his work on state and local government. He has done extensive work for the Pew Center on the States and has remained involved with the Government Performance Project, which he and Barrett helped develop ten years ago.

In addition, Greene is a correspondent and management columnist for Governing magazine and a founding editor of the B&G Report, a monthly e-newsletter about state and local government management. He is also co-author of Powering Up, a Governing Management Series book about information technology in the public sector and has served on advisory panels for a number of groups including the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, the Urban Institute, the Auburn University Center for Governmental Services and ASPA's Center for Accountability and Performance.