Christian Elkin

Christian Elkin has served as Multnomah County's Budget Director since March of 2020. Prior to that, she was the Budget and Finance Manager of the Joint City-County Office of Homeless Services from its inception in 2017 until returning to the Budget Office as the Director in 2020. Christian has been a member of the County’s budget and finance team for 18 years since joining the County’s Budget Office as a Senior Budget Analyst in 2002. Prior to working for the County, she taught high school government and economics and worked at Hobson Ferrarini and Associates, a local real estate economic consulting firm. Mrs. Elkin holds a masters degree in public policy and American politics from Claremont Graduate University and a bachelor’s degree with honors in political science from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. She is a member of the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) and its Oregon affiliate. Early in her career she served as a public member of the Multnomah Bar Association's Judicial Screening Committee.