Kuben has a Bachelor of Science degree and a Post Graduate
Diploma in Public Management from Wits University and an MBA from
the University of Birmingham, UK. He joined the National Treasury
at the beginning of 1998, has worked on education finance, public
sector personnel policy, intergovernmental fiscal relations,
capital budgeting, budget reform and fiscal policy. He is presently
the head of the Budget Office. Kuben also did a two year stint at
the UK Treasury, working on capital budgets and their biannual
spending review.