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Nancy Dunphy

Nancy E. Dunphy was appointed to the position of Deputy Commissioner for Employment Security for the Department of Labor in June 2007. She is responsible for oversight and policy direction for New York State's Unemployment Insurance (UI) Program, serving approximately 600,000 unemployed New Yorkers and 500,000 employers a year, as well as oversight of the Department of Labor's data gathering, career information and program evaluation activities as performed by the Division of Research and Statistics.

She has worked for the Department of Labor in a variety of positions since 1978, including Director of Agency Budget Services, Director of UI Tax Liability and Field Audit, and Director of UI Benefit Payment and Tax Accounting.

Ms. Dunphy is a magna cum laude graduate of the State University of New York at Albany and has completed graduate work within the John F. Kennedy School of Management Sciences, Harvard University. She is a successful graduate of the Governor's Office of Employee Relations 2005 Leadership Classroom as well as other selected management development and leadership institutes.