Lecturers and Researchers

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The extended faculty of the Lincoln Institute includes those with regular and ongoing commitments in research and in teaching and developing courses and workshops.

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Claudio Acioly is an architect, urban planner, and development practitioner. He is the chief of housing policy for the United Nations Human Settlement Program (UNHABITAT) in Nairobi, Kenya and coordinator of the United Nations Housing Rights Program.
Carlos Orrego Acuña is an architect, real estate appraisal professor, and the head of the Cadastre and Valuation Department of the Internal Revenue Office of Chile.
Miguel Aguila Sesser is a land surveying engineer. He was a lecturer at the University of the Republic of Uruguay for 25 years, and served as national director of cadastre in Uruguay from 1995 to 2005.
Gabriel Ahlfeldt is a lecturer in urban economics and land development at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. His research interests lie in the areas of urban and spatial economics.
Stephen Aldrich is founder and president of Bio Economic Research Associates LLC (bio-era), an independent research and consulting firm on social and economic consequences of human-induced change to biological systems.
Betãnia de Morães Alfonsin is a lawyer, urban planner, consultant in urban law, and professor in the School of Law at Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
John Anderson is Baird Family Professor of Economics and associate dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He researches public finance, property and sales tax, and public policy. He is a Lincoln Institute visiting fellow in 2011.
Shlomo Angel is adjunct professor of urban planning at the Wagner School of Public Service, New York University. He is working on a global study of 120 cities as part of his visiting fellowship at the Institute in 2011–2012.
David Autor is a professor and associate department head in the Department of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His field of interest is labor economics.
Antonio Azuela is a lawyer, sociologist, and a professor at the Social Research Institute of Mexico's National Autonomous University in Mexico City. He researches property rights and urban and environmental issues.
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Luis Baer is a postgraduate scholar at the Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). He writes on urban and economic territorial issues, and he teaches economic geography at the University of Buenos Aires.
Roy Bahl is Regents Professor of Economics and Founding Dean of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He consults and writes on urban and regional economics and fiscal policy reform with governments in developing and transition economies.
Qiao Baoyun is professor and dean of the China Academy of Public Finance and Policy at the Central University of Economics and Finance in Beijing. He researches local public finance and property taxation.
Carlos Alberto Basilio is an architect who specializes in cadastral issues. He works at the Tax Administration Agency (ARBA) of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he focuses on property valuation and taxation.
Christopher E.M. Beardsley is executive director of the Forum for Urban Design in New York City and executive editor of the Urban Design Review.
Timothy Beatley is Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. His work focuses on creative strategies by which cities and towns can reduce their ecological footprints.
Michael Bell is president of MEB Associates, Inc., and a research professor at the George Washington University Institute for Public Policy. His work focuses on state and local finances and intergovernmental relations.
Maria Hardy Benjamin is program director for Community Housing Development Corporation in Richmond, CA, responsible for design and implementation of a housing counseling program serving 1,500 clients annually.
Chris Benner is associate professor of community and regional development, and chair of the Community Development Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis. He researches technological change, regional development, and economic opportunity.
Ciro Biderman Biderman is an associate professor and researcher at the Center for the Study of Politics and Economics of the Public Sector (CEPESP) at Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, Brazil. He is also affiliated with the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) at MIT.
Richard Bird is professor emeritus in the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. His research interests include international taxation, tax administration, intergovernmental fiscal relations, and budgetary policy.
Edward J. Blakely is professor of urban policy at the University of Sydney. He is an authority on urban policy and author of many books and articles on sustainability, urban renewal, and local economic development.
Zulma Bolívar is an expert on urban planning and design, and local development management. She serves as president of the Urban Metropolitan Institute of the Municipality of Metropolitan Caracas.
Oscar Armando Borrero Ochoais an economist at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, a professor of appraisal and economics, an advisor to the Colombian Chamber of Construction, and former president of the Colombian Real Estate Association (Fedelonjas).
Raphael W. Bostic is a professor in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California. He is currently on leave to serve as assistant secretary for policy development and research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
John Bowman is professor emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University. He was on the editorial board of the National Tax Journal for 12 years, and has been a consultant on many state tax studies, focusing on property tax.
Isabel Margarita Brain Valenzuela is a sociologist and coordinator of the ProUrbana Program in the Center of Public Policies at the Catholic University of Chile.
Paul Bromberg is a professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Colombia, and a consultant in urban public policy and governance.
Leah Brooks is a senior economist in the Household & Real Estate Finance Section of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Her research interest is urban political economy.
Michael Brown, a partner in Burlington Associates in Community Development, and has been active in housing and shared equity initiatives for 30 years. He has provided technical assistance to over 60 community land trusts, as well as to and local and state governments.
Julie Brunner is housing manager for OPAL Community Land Trust in Eastsound, Washington, and is a consultant for other CLTs in the northwest. She has over 12 years experience with community land trust and nonprofit housing development, and organizational capacity building.
David Brunori is a research professor of public policy at George Washington University, and teaches state and local taxation at its law school. He is also a contributing editor for State Tax Notes.
Lisa Byers has been the executive director of OPAL Community Land Trust in Eastsound, Washington (Orcas Island) since 1996. She was a cofounder of the Northwest Community Land Trust Coalition and the National CLT Network.
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Alan Cadogan has a career in architecture, urban design, and planning focusing on the urban quality of Sydney, Australia, and he is now the strategy director for the city.
Nico Calavita is professor emeritus in the Graduate Program in City Planning at San Diego State University. His research interests include affordable housing, the politics of growth, and comparative planning.
Julio Abel Calderón Cockburn is a professor at the Catholic University (PUCP) and the National Engineering University (UNI) in Peru. He is widely published on urban and social issues in Latin America, and has consulted for numerous international organizations.
Julie Campoli is principal of Terra Firma Urban Design, based in Vermont and Boston. She focuses on landscape change, density, and urban form, using innovative graphic techniques to illuminate land use issues.
Jing Cao is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Tsinghua University. She researches environmental and energy economics, the integrated modeling of economic and environmental systems, climate change economics, and productivity and economic growth.
Rosario Casanovais a land surveyor engineer, and a professor and researcher in the School of Engineering of the University of the Republic of Uruguay.
Karl E. Case is professor emeritus of economics at Wellesley College, where he taught for more than 30 years. He is also a founding partner in the real estate research firm of Fiserv Case Shiller Weiss, Inc.
Jeffrey Chapman is Foundation Professor of Applied Public Finance in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University in Tempe. He specializes in state and local finance and administration of financial resources.
José María Ciampagna is a surveyor, geodesist-geophysics engineer, and professor of land information systems at Córdoba University, Argentina. He has served as project manager on various cadastre, cartography, and land information systems projects.
J. Michael Cobb is founding principal of IDC International Development Consultants, LLC. He has over 25 years of experience in planning, design, development and expansion projects, ecologically based developments, and transportation and infrastructure projects.
Daniel H. Cole is the R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law–Indianapolis. He teaches and writes on property, natural resources law, land use, environmental protection, and law and economics.
Gary C. Cornia is dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
Randall Crane is professor in the Department of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he researches urban development, transportation and land use, and local economic and fiscal reform.
Susan Culp is project manager for Western Lands and Communities, a joint venture of the Lincoln Institute and Sonoran Institute. She coordinates research and activities foster sustainable development in the Intermountain West.
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John Emmeus Davis is a partner and cofounder of Burlington Associates in Community Development, a national consulting cooperative specializing in projects that promote permanently affordable housing. He is the dean of the National CLT Academy and editor of The Community Land Trust Reader (Lincoln Institute, 2010).
Morris A. Davis is associate professor in the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business. As a fellow at the Lincoln Institute he is coordinating the online database on land and property values.
Claudia De Cesare is a property tax researcher and advisor to the Secretariat of Finance in the municipality of Porto Alegre, Brazil. She has been involved in valuation and property taxation in the academic and practical fields.
Carl F. Dierker is regional counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region I/New England in Boston. He is an advisor in federal environmental law.
Chengri Ding is associate professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Maryland in College Park. He specializes in urban economics, housing and land studies, GIS, and spatial analysis.
Alan Dornfest is property tax policy supervisor for the Idaho State Tax Commission. He is also an assessment administration specialist for the International Association of Assessing Officers.
Thomas Downes is associate professor of economics at Tufts University. His research focuses on the evaluation and construction of state and local policies to improve the delivery of publicly provided goods.
James Duggie is an environment policy officer and advocate, working in biodiversity conservation, natural resource management, sustainability, and water and climate change. He is principal policy officer for adaptation in the Western Australian State Government's Office of Climate Change.
Richard F. Dye is Ernest A. Johnson Professor of Economics Emeritus at Lake Forest College in Illinois and adjunct professor at the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute in 2011–2012.
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Mary Edwards is assistant professor with the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She teaches planning, urban and regional development, and government finance.
Richard W. England is professor of economics at the University of New Hampshire and visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute in 2011–2012. His recent research has concentrated on how local property taxation and zoning rules affect land use change in the United States.
Diego Alfonso Erba is a fellow at the Lincoln Institute and oversees distance education for the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean. He develops research and publications on multipurpose cadastres in Latin America, and teaches land market analysis and property taxation.
Reid Ewing is professor of city and metropolitan planning at the University of Utah, associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association, fellow of the Urban Land Institute, and member of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED LP-Technical Advisory Group.
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Yingling Fan is assistant professor at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. She researches the impacts of planning human activities, including land use, social equity, and public health.
W. Paul Farmer is executive director and CEO of the American Planning Association. He previously served in the planning departments of the cities of Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, and Eugene, Oregon.
Changchun Feng is professor and chairman of the College of Urban and Environmental Science at Peking University. He is director of the Peking University Center of Real Estate Studies and Appraisal.
Cheng-Ming Feng is professor in transportation and urban planning at the National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan, and president of Taiwan Institute of Urban Planning.
Ona Ferguson is a senior associate at the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a nonprofit organization that provides mediation and dispute system design services to public and private clients.
Cintia Fernandes is a lawyer for the Municipality of Curitiba, Brazil. She teaches municipal taxation at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazilian Academy of Constitutional Graduate Law and the Brazilian Institute of Taxation Studies (IBET).
Edésio Fernandes is a lawyer and lecturer associated with the Development Planning Unit of the University College London, the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies, Rotterdam, and several Brazilian universities.
Carlos Ferrufino is a professor of architecture and head of the Department of Spatial Organization of the Central American University (UCA) in San Salvador. He has served as urban planner to private companies, municipalities, and nongovernmental organizations.
Patrick Field is managing director of the Consensus Building Institute and associate director at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Harvard Public Disputes Program. He is a mediator and trainer in land use, environmental, and natural resource issues.
William Fischel is the Patricia F. and William B. Hale '44 Professor in Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College. His scholarship has focused on regulatory takings and the economics of local government, with special emphasis on the Tiebout hypothesis, zoning, and property taxation.
Crystal Fisher is sales manager for the Community Home Trust (CHT), a nonprofit developer and steward of affordable housing in Orange County, North Carolina.
Peter Fisher is principal and research director of PMJ Fisher & Associates, and teaches planning for climate change at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He has an interest in planning issues affecting air quality, traffic, and water management.
James Follain is a financial economist with experience in the economic and financial analysis of housing and mortgage markets and the major institutions within them. His consulting firm is based near Albany, New York.
Kathryn A. Foster is director of the UB Regional Institute, a research and public policy unit of the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where she is also a faculty member and former chair in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning.
Riël C. D. Franzsen is professor of law at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and executive director of the African Tax Institute. His research interests are tax law, international property tax systems, and local government finance.
John Fregonese is the president of Fregonese Associates, a full service planning firm in Portland, Oregon, specializing in visioning, comprehensive and small area planning, implementation strategies, and public engagement.
Patricia Fuentes is a researcher and professor at the Central American University “José Simeón Cañas” (UCA). She has been an academic coordinator for several courses and specializations on market land management, regularization of human settlements, and urban land use policies.
Fernanda Furtado is professor and researcher in the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal Fluminense University in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She lectures and publishes on value capture.
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C.J. Gabbe is an urban planner and project manager at Fregonese Associates, with a background in public policy, housing, real estate and public involvement.
Sebastian Galiani is professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a member of the executive committee of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA).
Alfredo Garay is an architect and urban planner. He is a professor at the School of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Sara García Jiménez is adjunct professor in the School of Architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Silvia García Vettorazzi is an architect, urban planner, and a professor at San Carlos University of Guatemala and subdirector for the urban department of Guatemala City.

Jerome C. German is an independent consultant who teaches and publishes widely on assessment administration, GIS spatial analysis, and CAMA modeling. He previously served as director and chief assessor in the Real Estate Division of the Lucas County (Ohio) Auditor's Office.
Edward L. Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and director of the Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston, all at Harvard University.
Robert J. Gloudemans is a consultant and partner in Almy, Gloudemans, Jacobs & Denne, a firm specializing in assessment policy and procedures. He teaches mass valuation techniques to assessment jurisdictions in North America and to countries in economic transition.
John H. Goddeeris is professor of economics and associate dean at the College of Social Sciences at Michigan State University. His research includes public health, welfare economics, taxation, and public management.
Devika Goetschius has been the executive director at Housing Land Trust of Sonoma County in Petaluma, California since 2003.
Marco Aurélio Stumpf González is professor of civil engineering and architecture, and researcher at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) in São Leopoldo, Brazil. His work focuses on property valuation, taxation, and construction management and economics.
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro is a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and an assistant professor of economics at the University of Toronto Scarborough, affiliated with the Center for Industrial Relations and Human Resources.
Tracy Gordon is Okun-Model Fellow for the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. She is an expert on state and local public finances and also does research in political economy and urban economics.
Cynthia Goytia is an urban economist, professor and associate director of the Master Program in Urban Economics at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, in Argentina.
Qingwang Guo is professor and dean of the School of Public Finance at Renmin University. He researches local public finance, revenue expenditure, and property taxation.
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Sunsheng Han is associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning at the University of Melbourne. He researches urban and regional development, strategic planning, and analytical methods in urban studies.
Allison Handler, a consultant with Decisions Decisions and Solid Ground Consulting Group, focuses on land conservation, housing, and community development. She works with land trusts, other nonprofits, and local governments on strategic planning and capacity building.
Mark Haveman is executive director of the Minnesota Taxpayers Association, which provides nonpartisan education and research on Minnesota fiscal policy.
Canfei He is associate professor at the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University and associate director of the Peking University–Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy. His research interests include urban development, transportation, and industrial agglomeration.
Justin Hollander is assistant professor of urban and environmental policy at Tufts University. His research interests include the role of planning and public policy in managing land use and environmental changes associated with economic decline and shrinking cities.
Jim Holway is director of Western Lands and Communities, the Joint Venture between the Sonoran Institute and Lincoln Institute. He researches western water policy and land use management.
Youqin Huang is associate professor at the State University of New York, Albany. She specializes in the spatial and demographic analysis of behavioral and urban phenomena.
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Harvey M. Jacobs is a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research and teaching focus on public policy and the private property rights movement.
Rick Jacobus is a partner in Burlington Associates in Community Development. His work focuses on strengthening low and moderate-income communities through the creation of permanently affordable homeownership opportunities and neighborhood retail development..
Kang Jia Kang Jia is president of the Research Center for Fiscal Science of the Ministry of Finance in Beijing. His research interests include macroeconomic and fiscal reform in China, property taxation, and local public finance.
Yulin Jiang, director of the China Academy of Transportation Sciences, Ministry of Communication, specializes in transportation planning, transit-oriented development, and sustainable infrastructure development.
Laurie A. Johnson is principal of Laurie Johnson Consulting in San Francisco and a senior science advisor to Lexington/Chartis Insurance. She has professional experience in urban planning, risk management, and disaster recovery management.
Shawn Johnson is an associate at the Center for Natural Resources & Environmental Policy at the University of Montana. His work focuses on the theory and practice of collaborative conservation.
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Jerold S. Kayden is Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. His work focuses on law and the built environment and public-private development.
Gil Kelley is an urban and strategic planning consultant in Portland, Oregon. He advises governments on strategies for addressing climate change, sustainable urban development, and organizational aspects of local planning and development functions.
Daphne A. Kenyon heads D. A. Kenyon & Associates, a public policy consulting firm in Windham, New Hampshire. She is a visiting fellow during 2011–2012 at the Lincoln Institute, researching current tax policy issues.
Paul Kirshen researches climate change adaptation at Battelle Memorial Institute, and is a visiting scientist at Tufts University. He has experience in climate change adaptation planning for built and natural environments.
William R. Klein is director of research and advisory services for the American Planning Association and has more than 35 years experience in city and regional planning.
Gerrit-Jan Knaap is professor of urban studies and planning and executive director of the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education at the University of Maryland. He researches the economics and politics of land use planning, and impacts of environmental policy.
Yolanda Kodrzycki is a vice president and director of the New England Public Policy Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Her primary fields of research are applied microeconomics, labor economics, regional economics, and public finance.
David Kooris is a vice president at Regional Plan Association and the director its Connecticut office. He manages projects and research initiatives throughout the region that combine his background in urban design and sustainability with his devotion to the public process and climate action.
Gerald Korngold is professor of law at New York Law School. As visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute in 2011–2012, he is researching property rights, conservation easements, and global land issues.
Zenia Kotval is associate professor of urban planning at Michigan State University, and consults for the Center for Economic Development at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her expertise is in economic impact computer models and quantitative methods.
Alex Krieger is a professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is founding principal of Chan Krieger Sieniewicz, an architecture and urban design firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ignacio Kunz is a geographer, urban planner, and researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) on topics including urban restructuring, real estate markets, housing, and planning instruments.
Michael Kwartler is an architect, urban designer, and educator in New York City. He is founder and president of the Environmental Simulation Center, a nonprofit research laboratory that develops applications of information technology for community planning.
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Robert N. Lane is a senior fellow at the Regional Plan Association, New York City, which is devoted to combating sprawl and promoting centered development in the metropolitan region.
Adriana Larangeira is an advisor for the Housing Secretariat in the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Greg Laves lectures on climate change adaptation at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia and has coordinated teaching and research at the Climate Change Coasts and Catchments unit at the university.
James N. Levitt is a fellow at the Lincoln Institute and directs the Program on Conservation Innovation at Harvard Forest of Harvard University in Petersham, Massachusetts. His work focuses on how to advance and finance land and biodiversity conservation.
Rebecca Lewis is an assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida State University. She was a faculty research associate at the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, and a Lincoln Institute C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellow.
Roger Lewis, the executive director of the National Community Land Trust Network, has been working in the housing and community development sector with both for-profit and nonprofit entities for 30 years.
Jiabin Lin is research fellow and deputy director of the Development Research Center of State Council. He researches urban development, property taxation, affordable housing policy, and local economic development.
Johannes Linn is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. His research focuses on international development, global governance, Central and Eastern European transition, and transatlantic economic relations.
James M. Libby, Jr. is an attorney with the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, and currently chairs the Montpelier Housing Task Force.
Huapu Liu is professor and director of the Transportation Institute at Tsinghua University. He researches urban transportation and development economics.
Zhilin Liu is assistant professor at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, and researches housing policy and urban development.
Michael Lomax is deputy assessor for the Fraser Valley Region for British Columbia Assessment. He is an expert in property valuation and property tax administration.
Guoqiang Long is senior fellow and deputy director general of the Foreign Trade Department of the Development Research Center of the State Council, People's Republic of China. His research examines trade policy and economics, property tax reform, and housing policy reform.
Gianni Longo is founding principal of ACP–Visioning & Planning, a firm based in New York City and Columbus, Ohio. In 1984 Longo developed Vision 2000 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the first and most successful visioning program in the country.
Ismael López Padilla is an architect and a professor of urban planning at Mexico's National Autonomous University in Mexico City, as well as a federal official at the Ministry of Social Development in Mexico.
Byron Lutz is a senior economist in the Fiscal Analysis Section of the Department of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. His fields of interest are public economics, labor economics, and urban rural and regional economics.
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Jun Ma is professor and associate dean of the School of Public Affairs at Sun Yat-Sen University. His research interests include local public finance, government budgeting, and local government administration in China.
Alex MacLean is founder of Landslides Aerial Photography, a Massachusetts firm specializing in aerial photography. He is coauthor of many books, including Visualizing Density (Lincoln Institute, 2007), which features his photographs as tools for understanding density.
María Mercedes Maldonado is a lawyer, city planner, and a professor at the National University of Colombia, Bogotá, and researcher at the university's Institute of Urban Studies. Her interests are urban law, property rights, social housing policies, and value capture.
Alan Mallach is a nonresident senior fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. He is engaged in work on inclusionary housing and community development policy issues.
Jane Malme, fellow at the Lincoln Institute, is an attorney and a consultant on property tax policy, law, and administration in North America, and on economies in transition in Eastern and Central Europe.
Erika Malone is the director of the Northwest Community Land Trust Coalition where she educates, supports, and advocates for CLTs. She has developed innovative housing programs, and has worked directly with families to realize their dream of homeownership.
Jorge Martinez-Vazquez is professor of economics and director of the International Studies Program at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University in Atlanta. He has directed projects in transitional and developing countries, and has written on tax reform.
William McCluskey is professor at the School of the Built Environment at the University of Ulster, United Kingdom. He researches international property tax systems, valuation and assessment, local government finance, and computer-based mass appraisal.
Matthew J. McKinney is director of the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at the University of Montana, chair of the University's Natural Resource Conflict Resolution Program, adjunct professor in the School of Law, and a senior partner with the Consensus Building Institute.
Daniel P. McMillen is professor in the Department of Economics and the Institute for Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. He publishes in urban economics, real estate, and applied econometrics, and is a visiting fellow in 2011–2012.
Douglas J. Meffert is Eugenie Schwartz Professor of River and Coastal Studies and deputy director for policy at the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research. He is executive director of Tulane's RiverSphere, which fosters green jobs in renewable energy, and coprincipal of Meffert + Etheridge Environmental Projects, LLC.
Xiaochen Meng is associate professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Peking University. Her research includes urban planning, land use patterns and spatial analysis, and regional economic development.
Bob Miles is managing director of Miles Consulting Services, specializing in regional economic development and natural resource management in Asia.
Catalina Molinatti is an architect and planner. She works in developing land value capture tools at the Municipality of Córdoba, Argentina, and as a consultant on urban and regional planning issues for other local governments.
Rosemary Monahan coordinates EPA-New England's Smart Growth Program, which helps communities grow in environmentally sound ways.
Magda Montaña is a lawyer specialized in public administration and administrative law. She is an independent consultant on property tax instruments and financing of urban development, and a professor of urban public finance and law.
Carlos Morales Schechinger is a specialist in land policy, urban development, and land markets at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), The Netherlands. He previously taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Laura Mullahy, a consultant based in Argentina, contributes to the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean's operations and educational programs. She has coauthored numerous publications on land policy in Latin America.
John R. Mullin is dean of the graduate school at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, director of the Center for Economic Development, and professor of urban planning. He has written extensively on industrial planning and has consulted throughout New England.
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Hongri Ni is a research fellow at the Development Research Center of State Council and deputy director of Development Press of China. She researches local public finance, property taxation, and housing policy in China.
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Wallace E. Oates is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and university fellow at the Energy and Natural Resources Division of Resources for the Future, Washington, DC. His interests are fiscal federalism, state-local finance, and environmental economics.
Elinor Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University in Bloomington. In 2009 she received the Nobel Prize in Economics. Her work focuses on the commons, such as how pools of users manage natural resources as common property.
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Parag Pathak is assistant professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studies public education, housing and financial markets, and the design of systems for resource allocation.
Kurt Paulsen is assistant professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and he previously taught at Temple University. His teaching and research focus on the interactions between local government finance and land use planning.
George Perez is chief judge of the Minnesota Tax Court, a specialized executive branch court specifically established by the Minnesota Legislature to adjudicate tax related cases. He is currently chairman of the Lincoln Institute's National Conference of State Tax Judges.
Marian Pérez is an architect and researcher at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Costa Rica. She is coordinator for Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean of the Swiss NCCR North-South Program and a member of the Fundación Promotora de Vivienda.
Dwight Perkins is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. He researches development economics, sustainable growth, rural development and privatization in China, and economic growth in East Asia.
Dan L. Perlman is associate professor of biology and chairman of the Environmental Studies Program at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
David C. Perry is director of the Great Cities Institute and professor of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is senior research fellow at the International Institute of Communications at San Diego State University.
Kathryn L.S. Pettit is a research associate at the Urban Institute's Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center. She is deputy director of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership.
Mario Piumetto is a land surveyor, Director of the Cadastre in the Municipality of Córdoba, Argentina and professor in the School of Surveying at the National University of Córdoba. He has served as project manager on cadastre, cartography and land information systems projects.
Peter Pollock is the Ronald Smith Fellow at the Lincoln Institute. He coordinates joint venture projects in the West with the Sonoran Institute and the University of Montana. He was formerly the planning director for the city of Boulder, Colorado.
Deborah E. Popper is professor of geography at the College of Staten Island and Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her work focuses on how regions adjust to environmental pressures and population loss.
Frank J. Popper is a professor at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University and also teaches at Princeton University. He chairs the board of the Great Plains Restoration Council, and is a board member of the National Center for Frontier Communities.
Sally Powers is a project manager and mass appraisal consultant with Deloitte Consulting, LLP. She managed property valuation and taxation projects in Kosovo, South Africa, Bosnia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and advised in the Kyrgyz Republic. She is a visiting fellow in 2011-2012.
José Joaquín Prieto S. is founder and director of the Social Observatory at the Alberto Hurtado University in Santiago, Chile, advisor of the National Television (TVN), and founder and editor of Casa Grande magazine.
Luther Propst is founder and director of the Sonoran Institute, whose mission is to inspire and enable community decisions and public policies that respect the land and people of the West.
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John Quigley is the I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor and professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds appointments in the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the Haas School of Business, and directs the Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy.
Colin Quinn-Hurst attends the Master of City and Metropolitan Planning program at the University of Utah, where he works as a graduate assistant for Professor Reid Ewing.
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Sonia Rabello is a professor and researcher at the Law School of the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She works on land use legislation and cultural heritage protection, and is a councilor of the Municipal Parliament of the City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Samina Raja is assistant professor of urban and regional planning at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She researches the relationship between development patterns and fiscal trends in cities and regions.
Victor Ramirez Navarro is a lawyer and a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He specializes in judicial and administrative urban planning, ecological issues, and real estate.
Tao Ran is a research fellow at the Center for Rural Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He researches rural land policy, land use policy, local public finance, and urban development.
Eduardo Reese is a professor of urban management and planning in the Conurbano Institute at the General Sarmiento National University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also professor of planning methodology, urban projects, and land management at the national universities of Córdoba, La Plata, and Mar del Plata.
Andrew Reschovsky is professor of public affairs and applied economics at the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute in 2011-2012, he is studying changing property tax levies and the fiscal condition of local governments in urban areas.
Vera F. Rezende is a professor and researcher on urban planning at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the Fluminense Federal University in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Gustavo Riofrío works at the Center of Urban Studies and Promotion (DESCO) in Peru. He has been involved in field activities in Peruvian "barriadas" and in participative town planning and incremental housing.
Daniel A. Rodriguez is director of the Carolina Transportation Program and associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Maria Cristina Rojas is an architect with specialization in Economics and Urban Planning and Development, who works as an independent consultant for various Colombian public institutions.
Raquel Rolnik is an architect who specializes in land management and housing policies, a professor in the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing for the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Marcela Román Forastelli is an economist and consultant on the Regularization of the Cadastre and Land Registration Project, financed by the Inter-American Development Bank.
Greg Rosenberg is the academy director of the National Community Land Trust Network, and previously served as executive director of the Madison Area Community Land Trust. He is an attorney, real estate broker and LEED NC accredited professional, and has been involved in the field of affordable housing for over 20 years.
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Francisco Sabatini is a professor at the Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies at the Catholic University of Chile in Santiago. He specializes in residential segregation, citizen participation, and environmental conflicts and consults for public agencies, and private and public corporations.
Paulo Sandroni is an economist and professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a consultant on macroeconomic impacts of urban transformations and real estate assessment.
Lynn Scarlett is a senior visiting scholar at Resources for the Future in Washington, DC, and an environmental analyst focusing on climate change adaptation, landscape conservation, and infrastructure. From 2005 to 2009 she was deputy secretary at the Department of the Interior and chaired the department's Climate Change Task Force.
Juan Luciano Scatolini is a lawyer and public notary for the government of the Province of Buenos Aires, and was recently appointed head of the Popular Habitat professorship of the National University of La Plata.
Robert M. Schwab is professor of economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on public economics, particularly state and local government.
Amy Ellen Schwartz is director of the Institute for Education and Social Policy and professor of public policy, education, and economics at the Steinhardt School of Education and Wagner School of Public Service at New York University.
Ethan Seltzer is a professor in the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University. He teaches regional planning, growth management, and planning practice. He was founding director for Portland State's Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies.
Minjun Shi is a professor at the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the deputy director of the Academy's Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Science. He researches resource economics, regional development, environmental policy, and low carbon economies.
Song Shunfeng is professor of economics at the University of Nevada-Reno. His research interests include urban and transportation economics and the Chinese economy.
Katherine Sierra is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. A former vice president for sustainable development at the World Bank, she focuses on energy and climate change.
Everton da Silva is a land surveying engineer in Curitiba, Brazil and a consultant in technical cadastre, mass appraisal, property taxation, mapping and geoprocessing.
Mark Skidmore is the Betty and David Morris Chair in State and Local Government Finance and Policy in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University. His research interests are state and local public finance, intergovernmental fiscal relations, urban and regional economics, and the economics of natural disasters.
Enid Slack is director for the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. She is recognized internationally for her research on property taxes and other aspects of municipal finance.
Yan Song is associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include economics of land use regulations, land use and transportation interactions, and the use of computer-aided planning tools.
Frederick R. Steiner is the Henry M. Rockwell Chair in Architecture and dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches environmental impact assessment and landscape architecture theory.
Mia Stier is the communications associate for the Phoenix office of the Sonoran Institute. She works with both Western Lands and Communities and the Sun Corridor Legacy Program in an administrative and support capacity.
Ming Su is the deputy director of the Research Institute for Fiscal Science at the Ministry of Finance in the People's Republic of China. His research interests include public finance and environmental taxation and fees in China.
Lawrence Susskind is Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founder of the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge. He mediates controversial development decisions and has authored many books.
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Laura Tam is the sustainable development policy director for SPUR, the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association. She directs SPUR's work in five major policy areas: green buildings, water supply, wastewater, energy, and climate change.
Jill A. Tanner is a magistrate with the Magistrate Division of the Oregon Tax Court. She is chairman of the Lincoln Institute's National Conference of State Tax Judges.
Annette M. Tejada T. is an architect, professor, and coordinator of research programs in the Dominican Republic. She has directed geographical information projects on urban, regional. and environmental studies, and has published work on many topics in her field.
Petra Todorovich is director of America 2050, a national initiative based at the Regional Plan Association in New York City to shape America's growth in the twenty-first century. She previously led the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York, a coalition formed after 9/11.
Kenneth C. Topping is president of Topping Associates International in Cambria, California, lecturer with the City and Regional Planning Department, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, and project director for the 2010 California State Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan for the California Emergency Management Agency.
Brenda M. Torpy has over 30 years experience in affordable housing and community development in Vermont which has included organizing and advocacy, policy development for state and local government, project development, and nonprofit management.
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Álvaro Uribe is an architect, planner, professor at the University of Panama, researcher at Panama's International Center for Sustainable Development (CIDES), member of the advisory council for the Ministry of Housing, and urban planning advisor for Panama City's subway project.
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Maria Clara Vejarano is a professor and coordinator of the City and Urban Projects Program in the Architecture and Urbanism School at the National University of Colombia, Bogotá. She researches and consults on urban and regional planning, housing, and instruments for land management.
David Vetter is an urban and regional planner. He works at David Vetter Consultoría Económica Ltda., in Brazil, where he consults with Dexia, the Inter-American Development Bank, and other clients on urban finance.
Isabel Viana is an architect specialized in territorial and urban management. She is a consultant, researcher and professor on environmental management at the ORT University in Montevideo, Uruguay.
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Rui Wang is an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He researches urban development, transportation, environmental policy, and green cities.
Ya Ping Wang is professor of urban studies and director of the Scottish Centre for Chinese Urban and Environmental Studies at Heriot-Watt University. He researches housing policy and reform and rural-urban migration in China.
Douglas Webster is professor and director of the Global Studies Program at Arizona State University. He has worked on urban development issues in Asia and consulted for organizations and governments on comparative urban dynamics, urban competitiveness, and peri-urbanization.
Qu Weidong is an associate professor in the Department of Land and Real Estate Management at the School of Public Administration, Renmin University. He researches property taxation, land policy, and local public finance.
Kris Wernstedt is associate professor of urban affairs and planning at the Alexandria Center of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His work focuses on redeveloping contaminated and underutilized properties.
Rev. John E. Whitfield is the president of the Alabama Association of Community Development Corporations and interim executive director of the Baldwin County Housing Alliance.
Wim Wiewel is the president of Portland State University. He researches and writes on the role of universities in urban development in the United States and internationally.
Hal Wolman is a professor of public policy and political science at George Washington University and the director of the George Washington Institute of Public Policy. His interests include metropolitan policy and politics; regional economic development; and state and local fiscal policy.
Randall Wright is the Ray Zeeman Professor of Liquid Assets in the Department of Finance, Investment, and Banking and the Department of Economics in the University of Wisconsin School of Business in Madison.
Cifang Wu is the dean of the Southeast College of Land Management at Zhejiang University and researches urban economics, urban planning, and land policy in China.
Fulong Wu is professor of East Asian planning and development at Cardiff University, and director of the Cardiff University Urban China Research Centre. He researches urban geography, land and housing development, and urban poverty.
Weiping Wu is associate professor of urban studies, geography and planning at Virginia Commonwealth University. She researches urban economic geography, university-industry links, migrant housing and settlement, and China's urban development.
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Jiawen Yang is associate professor of urban planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He specializes in transportation planning, transportation economics, and urban and regional development.
Robert D. Yaro is president of Regional Plan Association, which promotes ways to improve the quality of life and competitiveness of the New York metropolitan region. He is a member of Mayor Bloomberg's Sustainability Advisory Board and professor of practice in city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Jianping Ye is professor and chairman of the Department of Land Management and Resources at Renmin University. His research interests include land policy and management, urban-rural land conversion, and property taxation.
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Li Zhang is assistant professor at the China Academy of Public Finance and Policy at the Central University of Economics and Finance in Beijing. Research interests include local public finance and property taxation.
Ming Zhang, assistant professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas, Austin, works on transportation impacts on land use, urban form and travel behavior, and GIS applications in urban and transportation planning in developing countries.
Zhirong Zhao is assistant professor of public affairs the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He researches public finance, transportation finance, and GIS applications in public affairs.
Siqi Zheng, associate professor at the Institute of Real Estate Studies at Tsinghua University, researches urban development, planning, housing policy, and urban transportation development.
Xinye Zheng is associate professor in the School of Economics at Renmin University. He researches local public finance, property taxation, macroeconomic theory, and development economics.
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