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The Lincoln Institute has expertise on a wide range of land policy and related topics. Please browse the list of experts below, and direct media inquiries to our media contact.

Media Contact

Kristina McGeehan
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(617) 503-2213

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Our Experts

George W. McCarthy

President and Chief Executive Officer

Expertise: housing, infrastructure, public finance, city and regional planning, urban development, global urbanization, regional governance

Enrique Silva

Chief Program Officer

Expertise: city and regional planning, informal settlement (slums), land value capture, urban development in Latin America, urban governance

John Farner

Executive Director, Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy

Expertise: water, land use, agriculture, sustainability, climate change

Solomon Greene

Executive Director, Land and Communities

Expertise: Housing, community development, land use law, city and regional planning, technological innovation

Joan Youngman

Executive Director, Land and Fiscal Systems

Expertise: property tax, tax-increment financing, land value taxation, valuation, assessment, law, public finance

Amy Cotter

Director of Urban Sustainability

Expertise: city and regional planning, equity, gentrification, scenario planning, economic development, sustainability, climate change

Jessie Grogan

Director of Equity and Opportunity

Expertise: legacy cities, urban development, equity, spatial inequality

Mary Ann Dickinson

Policy Director, Land and Water

Expertise: water and land use planning, sustainable water development strategies, water efficiency programs, state and local policy

Robert J. “R.J.” McGrail

Director, Accelerating Community Investment

Expertise: public finance, infrastructure, housing and economic development finance, community investment, urban development, equity, impact investing, governance, capital markets

Arica Young

Director, Housing Access and Affordability

Expertise: residential construction innovations, manufactured housing and other factory-built residential construction, housing finance, land use and planning, innovative community design, sustainable buildings, European community planning

Chandni Navalkha

Associate Director, Sustainably Managed Land & Water Resources

Expertise: land conservation, sustainable land management, conservation easements, land trusts, conservation finance, natural infrastructure

Patrick Welch

Associate Director, Urban Sustainability

Expertise: city and regional planning, climate change, urban climate adaptation, land-based climate finance, sustainable urban development

Kristen Keener Busby

Associate Director of Program Implementation, Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy

Expertise: land use, water, city and regional planning, community engagement, scenario planning, community and economic development, sustainability

Adam H. Langley

Associate Director of Tax Policy

Expertise: property tax, business tax incentives, nonprofit tax exemption and payments in lieu of taxes, property tax relief for homeowners, public finance, revenue trends, fiscal data

Zhi Liu

Senior Fellow and Director of the China Program

Expertise: infrastructure finance, municipal finance, urban development, housing policy, land policy in China

Kim Rueben

Senior Advisor, Fiscal Systems

Expertise: property taxes, school finance, state and local public finance, tax and expenditure limits, municipal finance

Anthony Flint

Senior Fellow

Expertise: city and regional planning, equity, gentrification, affordable housing, economic development, infrastructure, sustainability, climate change