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Gregory K. Ingram

President & CEO
Gregory K. Ingram is President and CEO of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Before leading the institute beginning in June 2005, he was Director-General, Operations Evaluation at the World Bank, where he also held positions in urban development and research and was Staff Director for the World Development Report 1994, Infrastructure for Development. His areas of expertise include urban economics, housing markets, transportation, infrastructure, evaluation, and economic development. Prior to joining the World Bank, he was Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University; a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University; and a B.S. in civil engineering from Swarthmore College.

Armando Carbonell

Chair, Department of Planning and Urban Form
Armando Carbonell, Senior Fellow and Chairman of the Department of Planning and Urban Form, is an urban planner. His areas of expertise include city and regional planning, property rights and regulation, and land use and the environment. He also teaches planning at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his appointment to the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Carbonell was the founding Executive Director of the Cape Cod Commission, a regional planning and land use regulatory agency. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Carbonell received his A.B. degree from Clark University and was a Doctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University and a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University.

Rosalind Greenstein

Chair, Department of Economic and Community Development
Rosalind Greenstein, senior fellow and chair of the department of Economic and Community Development at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, is an urban planner. Her areas of expertise include the role of land in housing markets; community land trusts (CLTs); regional and economic development; citizen involvement in planning processes; the role of urban institutions (including universities & medical centers) in urban planning and development. A common theme in all of her work is the social implications of economic development. Prior to working at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Greenstein was a senior regional economist at the economic forecasting firm of DRI/McGraw-Hill; research director of the Massachusetts Industrial Services Program, on the faculty in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin. She was on the founding board of directors of the National CLT Network and sits on the advisory board of the National CLT Academy and on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Planning Association. She is a graduate of the University of California (BA economics) and the University of North Carolina (PhD city and regional planning).

Martim O. Smolka

Director, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
Martim O. Smolka, senior fellow, director of the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean, and co-chairman of the International Department at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, is an economist. His areas of expertise include land markets and land policy, access to land by the urban poor, the structuring of property markets in Latin America and property tax systems, including the use of land value increment tax to finance urban development and infrastructure. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (MA/PhD), he is co-founder and former president of the Brazilian National Association for Research and Graduate Studies on Urban and Regional Planning.

Joan Youngman

Chair, Department of Valuation and Taxation
Joan Youngman is a senior fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she chairs its department of valuation and taxation. Her areas of expertise includes property taxation, valuation, tax limitation measures, and local taxation. An attorney with extensive experience in U.S. and international property tax issues, she is the author of the Lincoln Institute book Legal Issues in Property Valuation and Taxation (2006), and a contributing author on property tax issues for a leading legal text, Hellerstein and Hellerstein, State and Local Taxation (8th ed. 2005). She is also author of many articles on taxation, coauthor of An International Survey of Taxes on Land and Buildings (Kluwer, 1994), and a contributor on property tax issues to State Tax Notes. She has participated in international missions for the International Monetary Fund and for USAID involving legislative drafting and advice on land and building taxation.

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