According to 20 U.S.C. § 44, each member of the Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents shall be paid for necessary travel and other actual expenses to attend meetings of the Board. The law also assigns the Board’s Executive Committee the responsibility of auditing these expenditures. Since 2008, at the request of the Executive Committee, the Smithsonian’s Office of the Inspector General has conducted audits of the Regents’ travel expenses.
The objective of this audit was to determine whether Regents’ travel expense reimbursements for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 complied with the Travel Reimbursement Policy specified by the Office of the Regents.