Dick Long was selected as the assistant inspector general for audit in the Office of Inspector General.

From 1987 until he was recently selected for this position Long served as deputy assistant inspector general for audit in OIG. He was OIG’s assistant inspector general for analysis and evaluation from 1983-87. During 1982 he served as director of OIG’s Farm Programs Division, after serving as acting regional inspector general for OIG’s Western Region, based in San Francisco, earlier that year. From 1980-82 he worked as director of OIG’s Grain Task Force, which monitored compliance and contracting between USDA and grain companies in USDA’s buyback of American grain during the suspension of U.S. grain sales to the [then] Soviet Union.

Long was the assistant director of OIG’s Foreign Operations Staff from 1976-80. From 1974-76 he served as the assistant regional inspector general for its Northeast Region, based in Hyattsville, Md. He was a supervisory auditor at OIG headquarters in Washington, DC from 1971-74. From 1967-71 he worked as an auditor and then a supervisory auditor for OIG, based in Saigon, South Vietnam, where he monitored USDA food shipments to that country. He began his 36-year-career with OIG in 1965 as an entry-level auditor in Hyattsville.

A native of Princeton, W.Va., Long holds a B.S. degree in accounting from Concord College in Athens, W.Va. He is a certified internal auditor.

Jim Ebbitt, the previous assistant inspector general for audit in OIG, served in that position from 1987 until May 2001 and is now the deputy inspector general with the U.S. Agency for International Development. ¤