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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 at UN Habitat in Nairobi, Kenya. He formerly worked at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His work focuses on housing, neighborhood upgrading, urban density, and participatory planning.

Claudia Acosta is a lawyer and a professor at the University of Rosario in Colombia. She is a consultant on urban land policy issues, such as public land management instruments and value capture as well as property rights.

Miguel Aguila Sesser is a land surveying engineer. He was a lecturer at the University of the Republic, Uruguay for 25 years, and served as national director of cadastre in Uruguay from 1995 to 2005.

Albina Aleksiene is chief of the Market Data Analysis Group at the State Enterprise Centre of Registers of Lithuania. She developed a mass appraisal system in Lithuania to value real property for taxation purposes.

Betãnia de Morães Alfonsin, a lawyer and urban planner, is a consultant in the area of urban law, and professor in the School of Law in the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Nathan Anderson, is a professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He researches property tax limitations as a form of insurance and measures the effect of property taxes on capital investments made by small businesses and residential homeowners.

Shlomo Angel is adjunct professor of urban planning at the Wagner School of Public Service, New York University. He teaches courses on the history and theory of planning, and is working on a global study of 120 cities as part of his visiting fellowship at the Institute during 2009–2010.

Antonio Azuela, a lawyer and sociologist, is professor at the Social Research Institute of Mexico's National Autonomous University in Mexico City, where he conducts research on public procurement of land, property rights, and urban and environmental issues.

Arvydas Bagdonavicius is deputy director at the State Enterprise Centre of Registers of Lithuania, specializing in computer-assisted mass appraisal. He lectures at Vilnius Technical University and is an advisor to the Lithuanian Property Assessment Commission.

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.

John Barros, a lifelong resident of Boston's Dudley neighborhood, became executive director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) in 2000.

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.

Ciro Biderman is associate professor and researcher at the Center for the Study of the Politics and Economics of the Public Sector at Getulio Vargas Foundation and Metropolitan Urban Laboratory at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He specializes in local finance and urban economics.

Richard Bird is a 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, particularly in developing and transitional countries

Barry Bluestone is the Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy and director of the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University in Boston.

Rebecca Boldt heads the research team on Income Tax Policy and Economics at the Wisconsin Department of Revenue. This team conducts research and prepares estimates of state general purpose tax revenues and forecasts of the Wisconsin economy.

Oscar Armando Borrero Ochoa, an economist at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, and is also affiliated with the Colombian Real Estate Association (Longas de Propieded Raiz).

John Bowman joined the faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1981, and has been professor emeritus since 2004. He was on the editorial board of the National Tax Journal for 12 years, and has been a consultant on many state tax studies, generally working on the property tax.

Richard Brail is professor of urban planning in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. His interests include the applications of information technology in urban planning, planning support systems, and urban transportation.

Michael Brown, partner in Burlington Associates in Community Development in Vermont, has been active in housing development work for over 25 years. Since 1997 he has provided technical assistance more than 36 community land trusts across the country.

Julie Brunner is housing manager for OPAL Community Land Trust in Eastsound, Washington. She has over 12 years of experience with community land trust and nonprofit housing development, organizational capacity building, and neighborhood revitalization.

David Brunori is 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 is executive director of OPAL Community Land Trust in Eastsound, Washington, and serves as president of the newly formed National Community Land Trust Network.

Alan Cadogan leads Strategy Unit for the City of Sydney Australia, and led the Sustainable Sydney 2030 project – Sydney's long term vision for a sustainable future. He has over 24 years experience in architecture, urban design and planning in Sydney.

Nico Calavita is professor in the Graduate Program in City Planning at San Diego State University. His research interests include affordable housing and community development, the politics of growth, and comparative planning.

Julio Abel Calderón Cockburn is a professor at Catholic University (PUCP) and at Engineering National University (UNI) in Peru. He has authored many books on urban and social issues in Latin America, and has consulted for numerous international organizations.

Julie Campoli, a landscape architect and urban designer, is principal of Terra Firma Urban Design in Burlington, Vermont. She has developed innovative graphic techniques to illuminate land use issues and presents workshops on landscape change, sprawl, and density.

Rosario Casanova, a land surveyor engineer, is professor and researcher in the Schools of Engineering and Architecture of the University of the Republic of Uruguay and the ORT University, also in Uruguay.

Karl E. Case is the Katherine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, where he has 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, and publishes on local land use responses to fiscal stress.

José María Ciampagna is a surveyor, geodesist-geophysics engineer, and professor of land information systems at Córdoba University, Argentina. He lectures internationally and has served as project manager on various cadastre, cartography, and land information systems projects.

Patrick Condon is James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He works on the relationship between land use planning and global climate change.

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.

James J. Czupryna, appraiser and consultant based in Townsend, Massachusetts, has extensive practical and teaching experience in property valuation and environmentally sensitive lands.

Rubens Alves Dantas is professor of appraisal engineering at the Federal University and at the State University of Pernambuco, Brazil. He is also a consultant and technical vice-president of the Brazilian Appraisal Engineering Society.

John Davis is partner and cofounder of Burlington Associates in Community Development in Vermont, a consulting cooperative specializing in projects that promote permanently affordable housing.

Morris A. Davis is an assistant 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 new online database on land and property values.

Claudia De Cesare is a property tax researcher and adviser 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.

Margaret Dewar is professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan. She directs the Detroit Community Partnership Center, which links faculty and students with community-based organizations and city agencies.

Carl F. Dierker is regional counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region I/New England in Boston, Massachusetts. He provides legal and policy advice to senior managers in areas of 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, property tax policy supervisor for the Idaho State Tax Commission, has analyzed tax programs for more than 25 years. He is 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 and to reduce inequities, particularly in education.

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 2009–2010.

Mary Edwards is assistant professor with the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She teaches planning methods, urban and regional development, and state and local government finance.

Ingrid Gould Ellen is associate professor of urban planning and public policy at New York University's Wagner School and codirector of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy and the Taub Center for Urban Research.

Richard W. England is professor of economics at the University of New Hampshire and visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute in 2009–2010. His recent research has concentrated on how local property taxation and zoning rules affect land use change in the United States.

Diego Alfonso Erba, fellow at the Lincoln Institute, oversees the distance education programs of the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean, develops research and publications on multipurpose cadastres in Latin America, and teaches land market analysis and property taxation.

Reid Ewing is a professor of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah, associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association, columnist for Planning magazine, and Fellow of the Urban Land Institute. He has authored multiple books in his field.

Andreas Faludi is chair of spatial policy systems in Europe at Delft University of Technology, OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies, The Netherlands. He is the editor of several Lincoln Institute books on European spatial planning.

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 also 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 is the new president of Taiwan Institute of Urban Planning. He coordinates courses cosponsored by the Lincoln Institute and the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training in Taiwan.

Ona Ferguson is an associate at the Consensus Building Institute (CBI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a nonprofit organization that provides mediation and dispute system design services to public and private clients worldwide.

Cintia Fernandes is lawyer for the Municipality of Curitiba, Brazil. She teaches municipal taxation at the Federal University of Paraná and at the Brazilian Academy of Constitutional Graduate Law.

Edésio Fernandes is a lawyer and lecturer associated with the Development Planning Unit of University College London, the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies, Rotterdam, and several Brazilian universities.

Carlos Ferrufino is professor of architecture and head of the Department of Spatial Organization of the Central American University in San Salvador. He has also 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, where he has taught economics since 1973. His scholarship has focused on regulatory takings and the economics of local government, with special emphasis on the Tiebout hypothesis, zoning, and property taxation.

PMJ Fisher is an adjunct professor at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia. His work has centered on the environment with a focus on water, energy, and carbon management. He studies planning issues affecting air quality, traffic management, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Riël C. D. Franzsen is professor of law at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and executive director of the African Tax Institute. His primary research interests are tax law, international property tax systems, and local government finance.

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.

Alfredo Garay is an architect and urban planner. He is also 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 and urban planner. She is a professor at San Carlos University of Guatemala both in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She is the subdirector for the urban department in the Municipality of Guatemala City, Guatemala.

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 serves as 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 interests include public health, welfare economics, taxation, and public management.

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.

Qingwang Guo is professor and dean of the School of Public Finance at Renmin University. His research interests include local public finance, local revenue expenditure, and property taxation.

Sunsheng Han is associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include urban and regional development, strategic planning, and analytical methods in urban studies.

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.

Merrick Hoben, director of the Consensus Building Institute in Washington, DC, has expertise in land use planning and resource management dispute resolution in the United States and Latin America.

Jim Holway is director of the Joint Venture between the Sonoran Institute and Lincoln Institute. He was a professor at Arizona State University and ASU coordinator for the Arizona Water Institute and assistant director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources. His research focuses on western water policy, links between water and growth, and land use management.

Lewis D. Hopkins is professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research considers when and how to use plans for urban development, and his publications address the logic of plans and the design of computing tools to enhance planning.

Jack Huddleston is professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has served as chief economist for the Wisconsin Office of State Planning and as chief of local fiscal policy analysis for the Wisconsin Department of Revenue.

Harvey M. Jacobs is 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.

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, working to apply principles and technologies of urban planning to solve problems. She has written about the economics of catastrophes, land use and risk, and urban disaster recovery and reconstruction.

Jerold S. Kayden is Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design and cochair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He also directs the Master in Urban Planning Degree Program.

Daphne A. Kenyon heads D. A. Kenyon & Associates, a public policy consulting firm in Windham, New Hampshire. She is a visiting fellow during 2008–2009 at the Lincoln Institute.

G. Thomas Kingsley is senior researcher of housing, urban policy, and governance at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC. He directs the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, which develops advanced data systems for urban policy analysis and community building.

Josh Kirschenbaum is senior program associate at PolicyLink in California, where he coordinates the Community Building in the Digital Age initiative to understand how technology can be used to build healthy communities.

William R. Klein, director of research and advisory services for the American Planning Association, has more than 35 years experience in city and regional planning as a planning consultant, planning agency director, and in applied research.

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, College Park. His research interests include the economics and politics of land use planning.

David Kooris, an urban designer and city planner, is the Connecticut director of Regional Plan Association. His work focuses on transit-oriented development and regional growth management.

Gerald Korngold is professor of law at New York Law School. As visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute in 2009–2010, 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.

Ignacio Kunz, geographer and urban planner, is researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) on topics including urban restructuring, real estate markets, housing, and planning instruments. He also advises to state and federal governments in Mexico.

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.

Robert N. Lane is director of the Regional Design Program 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 the project manager for the Favela-Bairro Program of the City of Rio de Janeiro, and professor and research project coordinator for the Municipal Administration Brazilian Institute – IBAM/Cities Alliance and UN-Habitat.

Amnon Lehavi is assistant professor and director of real estate studies at the Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC), Israel.

Nancy Levinson is director of the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory, a new center of the College of Design at Arizona State University. She is trained as an architect, and practiced for several years before moving into design publishing.

James N. Levitt directs the Program on Conservation Innovation at the Harvard Forest of Harvard University in Petersham, Massachusetts. He is also a research fellow at the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. His work focuses on how to advance and finance land and biodiversity conservation.

Jiabin Lin is research fellow and deputy director of the Development Research Center of State Council. His research interests are urban development, property taxation, affordable housing policy, and local economic development.

Huapu Liu is professor and director of the Transportation Institute at Tsinghua University. His research interests include urban transportation, urban development, and development economics.

Zhilin Liu, assistant professor at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, researches housing policy and urban development.

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, an independent consultant based in Mexico City, has participated in the financing and technical assistance programs for the modernization of cadastres and property taxation and in the modernization of public property registries for BANOBRAS.

Jun Ma is professor and associate dean of the School of Public Affairs at Sun Yat-Sen University. Research interests include local public finance, government budgeting, and local government administration in China.

Alex MacLean is founder of Landslides Aerial Photography, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, firm specializing in illustrative aerial photography. He is the coauthor of many books, including Visualizing Density (Lincoln Institute, 2007), which features his photographs as tools for understanding density.

María Mercedes Maldonado, attorney and city planner, is professor at the National University of Colombia, Bogotá, and researcher at the university's Institute of Urban Studies. Her areas of interest include the legal significance of urban rights, property rights, and value capture.

Alan Mallach is a visiting nonresident fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program of The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. He is engaged in work on housing and community development policy issues.

Carlos Marmolejo is associate professor in the Polytechnic University of Cataluña and is editor of the architectural and planning journal Revista ACE (Arquitectura, Ciudad y Entorno).

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 many transitional and developing countries, and has written on tax reform and intergovernmental fiscal relations.

William McCluskey is professor at the School of the Built Environment at the University of Ulster, United Kingdom. He focuses his research on international property tax systems, valuation and assessment, local government finance, and computer-based mass appraisal.

Matthew J. McKinney, director of the Public Policy Research Institute at the University of Montana in Helena, has 20 years of experience helping citizens and officials with diverse viewpoints to resolve disputes on land use planning, growth management, and other public policy issues.

Daniel P. McMillen is professor in the Department of Economics and the Institute for Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois. He publishes in urban economics, real estate, and applied econometrics, and is a visiting fellow in 2009–2010.

Douglas J. Meffert is deputy director of the Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane University, the program director for RiverSphere, an informational facility on the Mississippi riverfront, and the New Orleans coordinator for the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Urban Biosphere program.

Xiaochen Meng is associate professor at 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. He was a consultant to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs on Engaged Government, and is now a consultant in economic development throughout Asia.

Catalina Molinatti works in the valuations department of the Municipality of Córdoba cadastre, and is researcher in the School of Architecture, Urbanism and Design at the National University of Córdoba.

Rosemary Monahan coordinates EPA–New England's Smart Growth Program, which helps communities grow in environmentally sound ways.

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).

John R. Mullin is dean of the graduate school at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and director of the Center for Economic Development. He is also professor of urban planning and has researched and written extensively on industrial planning. He has worked as a planning consultant in more than 150 New England cities and towns.

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.

Wallace E. Oates is professor of economics 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 primary interests are public finance, particularly fiscal federalism and state-local finance, and environmental economics.

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.

Dwight Perkins is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. His research interests include 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. He is a visiting fellow at the Institute in 2009–2010.

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 also 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 serves as deputy director of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership.

Mario Piumetto is a surveyor and director of the cadastre of Córdoba, Argentina. He lectures on distance education courses and has served as project manager on various 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. Until 2007 he was the planning director for the city of Boulder, Colorado, for six years, and with that department for 25 years.

Sally Powers is a project manager and mass appraisal consultant with BearingPoint, Inc. She managed property valuation and taxation projects in Kosovo, South Africa, Bosnia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and recently advised in Kyrgystan. She is a visiting fellow in 2009-2010.

Baoyun Qiao is professor and dean of the China Academy of Public Finance And Policy at the Central University of Economics and Finance in Beijing. His research interests include local public finance, tax revenue and expenditure, and property taxation.

Weidong Qu is an associate professor in the Department of Land and Real Estate Management at the School of Public Administration, Renmin University. His research interests include property taxation, land policy, and local public finance.

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. He directs the Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy.

Sonia Rabello is professor and researcher at the law school of the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she teaches administrative law and land use law. Her recent work concerns land use legislation and cultural heritage protection.

Samina Raja is assistant professor of urban and regional planning at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research centers on 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 on judicial and administrative urban planning and ecological issues as well as in real estate. Published author in journals and magazines on legislation and socioeconomic planning.

Tao Ran is a research fellow at the Center for Rural Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests include rural land policy, land use policy, local public finance, and urban development.

Eduardo Reese is professor of urban management and planning at the Conurbano Institute at the General Sarmiento National University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also professor of planning methodology, architectural projects, and land management at the national universities at 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 2009–2010, he is studying changing property tax levies and the fiscal condition of local governments in urban areas.

Ray Ring is a professor of economics at the University of South Dakota. His primary research interests are economics of state and local governments and ethical and philosophical aspects of economics.

Gustavo Riofrío works at the Center of Urban Studies and Promotion (DESCO), an NGO in Peru. He has been involved in field activities in Peruvian "barriadas", participative town planning and incremental housing. He is a consultant and published author in Peru and internationally.

Carla J. Robinson was a senior research associate at the National Housing Institute in Washington, DC. She has also worked at the Center for the Study of Social Policy and the Community Building Institute at United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta.

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.

Raquel Rolnik, an architect with a specialization in urban land management, is a professor at FAU Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas and special assistant for adequate housing rights for the advisory board for the United Nations Human Rights.

Greg Rosenberg has been the executive director of the Madison Area Community Land Trust (MACLT) since 2001. He is currently the chair of the City of Madison Section 8 Advisory Committee and a board member of Community Shares of Wisconsin.

Kim Rueben is senior research associate at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. She examines issues of state and local public finance focusing on state budget issues and the economics of education. She is also adjunct fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California.

Francisco Sabatini, professor at the Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies at the Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, specializes in residential segregation, citizen participation, and environmental conflicts. He consults for public agencies, and private and public corporations.

Paulo Sandroni is an economist and professor at the Economics, and Public Administration School at Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a consultant on macroeconomic impacts of urban transformations and real estate assessment.

Robert M. Schwab is associate dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences 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. Her research focuses on the relationship between public interventions and property values.

Terri A. Sexton is professor of economics at California State University, Sacramento, and associate director of the Center for State and Local Taxation at the University of California, Davis. Her research explores the economic and fiscal impacts of various state and local taxes.

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 assistant 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 GIS and other computer-aided planning tools.

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.

Robert Tannenwald is assistant vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and director of its New England Public Policy Center. He specializes in state and local public finance and has researched devolution, unemployment insurance, and the business tax climate.

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, and project director of the State Hazard Mitigation Plan Revision Project at the University for the California Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA). He was director of planning for the City of Los Angeles and an advisor on post-disaster redevelopment in Australia, China, Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Japan.

Álvaro Uribe, architect and urban planner, is professor at the University of Panama and associated researcher at Panama's Center for Latin American Studies (CELA). He directs the land use plan for the Panama City metropolitan region in the National Program for Land Administration.

Maria Clara Vejarano is 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.

Kris Wernstedt is associate professor of urban affairs and planning at the Alexandria Center of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His work concentrates on environmental planning and policy, with emphasis on the redevelopment of contaminated and other underutilized properties, urban sustainability, and revitalization.

Wim Wiewel is the president of Portland State University. He previously served as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Baltimore. He researches and writes on the role of universities in urban development in the United States and internationally.

Hal Wolman is professor of public policy and political science at George Washington University and director of the GW Institute of Public Policy. His interests include urban and metropolitan policy and politics; regional economic development; and state and local fiscal policy.

Cifang Wu, dean of the Southeast College of Land Management at Zhejiang University, researches urban economics, urban planning, and land policy in China.

Weiping Wu is associate professor of urban studies, geography and planning at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research interests include urban economic geography, university-industry linkages, migrant housing and settlement, and China's urban development.

Robert D. Yaro, president of Regional Plan Association in New York City, is also professor of city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He is a member of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Sustainability Advisory Panel and vice president of the Forum for Urban Design in New York City.

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.

Yves Zenou is professor of economics at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden. His research interests include urban, labor, public, and development economics. He teaches urban economics, game theory, and search-matching models in the labor market.

Li Zhang is an 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, local revenue expenditure, 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.

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 an associate professor in the School of Economics at Renmin University. His research interests include local public finance, property taxation, macro-economic theory, and development economics.