Ken Levine, who has been serving as Interim Executive Director for the Sunset Advisory Commission has been named as Executive Director. Levine took over as Interim Executive Director for over a year following the departure of Director Joey Longley.

Levine has previously served eight years as Sunset deputy director, six years as assistant director and 14 years as policy/senior analyst. He has almost three decades of experience covering 14 Texas legislative sessions in developing proposals to improve government operations and programs through Sunset recommendations.

Levine holds a bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at Austin and a master’s from The University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs.