| Susan E. Dudley, Director, Regulatory Studies Center; Research Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; (202) 994-7543 Prior to joining the GW faculty in 2009, Professor Dudley served as the Presidentially-appointed Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget from April 2007 through January 2009. Before that, Professor Dudley helped establish and then directed the Regulatory Studies Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and taught courses and clinics on regulation at the George Mason University School of Law. Professor Dudley earned a BS summa cum laude (Resource Economics) from the University of Massachusetts and SMM (Applied Economics and Finance) from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gerald Brock, Co-director; Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration and Economics Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; (202) 994-3989 Prior to joining the GW faculty in 1990, Professor Brock served as Chief of the FCC Common Carrier Bureau from 1987-89. His research focuses on telecommunication policy, including the interaction of regulatory and other policy decisions with economic efficiency and technological progress. His current research examines the relationship between the regulated voice communication sector and the unregulated data communication sector, looking for insight regarding factors that facilitate technological progress and flexibility in economic institutions. He is the author of four books, of which the most recent is The Second Information Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2003). Professor Brock received both his BA (Applied Mathematics), and PhD (Economics) from Harvard University. Joseph Cordes, Co-director; Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; (202) 994-5826 Professor Cordes is a nationally-recognized scholar on the measurement of benefits and costs of government programs. He has developed and taught a one semester course on benefit cost analysis and has directed several PhD dissertations and over 100 level graduate student projects involving the application of benefit cost analysis to wide range of public and nonprofit sector programs, including government regulations. He has also received research grants from the Department of Homeland Security on measuring costs of homeland security regulations. He is a founding member of the board of directors of the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis. Professor Cordes earned a BA (Economics) from Stanford University, and a PhD (Economics) from the University of Wisconsin Madison. William C. Adams, Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; (202) 994-7494 Professor Adams is an expert lecturer and researcher in program and policy evaluation, public opinion, mass media, and survey research. Numerous publications and extensive consulting experience with various public and private sector organizations mark his achievements in the field of public policy and public administration. In the spring of 2010, Professor Adams taught in Kuala Lampur at the University of Malaya as a Fulbright award recipient. He earned a B.S. and M.A. (Political Science) from Baylor University, and Ph.D in Political Science from the George Washington University. Steven J. Balla, Associate Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; (202)994-7743 Professor Balla’s research focuses on public involvement in the regulatory system in the United States. Who participates in the making and implementing of regulations? Does this participation have an effect on regulatory outputs and outcomes? With William T. Gormley, Jr., he is the author of Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance. In 2008-2009, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Peking University in Beijing, where he lectured on the American regulatory system and began conducting research on public involvement in policymaking in the Chinese political system. He holds a Ph.D., Duke University. Howard Beales, Professor, School of Business Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; (202) 994-4760 Professor Beales’ has published numerous articles addressing a wide variety of consumer protection regulatory issues, including privacy, law and economics, and the regulation of advertising. From 2001 through 2004, He served as the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, where he was instrumental in redirecting the FTC’s privacy agenda to focus on the consequences of the use and misuse of consumer information. During his tenure, the Commission proposed, promulgated, and implemented the national Do Not Call Registry. He also worked with Congress and the Administration to develop and implement the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003. His aggressive law enforcement program produced the largest redress orders in FTC history and attacked high volume frauds promoted through heavy television advertising. Dr. Beales previously served at the FTC as a staff economist, Assistant to the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, Associate Director for Policy and Evaluation, and Acting Deputy Director. Immediately prior to joining the faculty at GW, he was the Chief of the Human Resources and Housing Branch of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget. Howard Beales received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Georgetown University. Lori A. Brainard Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, Director of the Trachtenberg School's Master of Public Administration (MPA) Program Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; (202) 994-1091 Professor Brainard's research focuses on communication regulation, with an emphasis on television regulation and deregulation. Her book, Television: The Limits of Deregulation has been positively reviewed by scholars in diverse fields, such as Political Science, Economics, Communications, and Public Policy. She is currently working on a history of the FCC's regulation (and deregulation) of television via biographical research on commissioners responsible for the agency's major television (de)regulatory policies. Her teaching repertoire includes a course on Federal Regulation. She holds a PhD in Politics from Brandeis University and a BA in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. George M. Gray, Director, Center for Risk Science and Public Health; Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; 202-994-7993 Prior to joining the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Professor Gray served as the Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development and the Science Advisor at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2005-2009. He also previously served as the Executive Director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis and a lecturer in Risk Analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health. Professor Gray earned a B.S. (Biology) from the University of Michigan and M.S. and Ph.D. (Toxicology) from the University of Rochester. Areas of research interest include nanotechnology, ecosystem research, the influence of toxicology advances on testing and risk assessment, and sustainability. Stuart Kasdin, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Professor Kasdin’s current research focuses on governance questions, including public institutions’ design and management, and governmental budgeting. Before joining GWU, he worked at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 1991-2002. He focused on the agencies in the Department of Agriculture, primarily as a program examiner overseeing the agencies’ budget requests and subsequently, assessing program implementation and administration. He also spent one year in the OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) as a policy analyst. Professor Kasdin received a Ph.D. in Political Science from University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously, he obtained Masters Degrees in Agricultural and Resource Economics, as well as International Agricultural Development, with a focus on Project Design and Management, from University of California, Davis. F. Scott Kieff, Professor of Law Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; (202) 994-4644 Professor Kieff works on the law, economics, business, and politics of innovation, including entrepreneurship, corporate governance, finance, economic development, intellectual property, antitrust, bankruptcy, property rights, contracts, and dispute resolution. In addition to serving on the GW Law faculty, he is a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where he directs the Project on Commercializing Innovation and serves on the Property Rights Task Force. He is also a faculty member of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center at Germany’s Max Planck Institute. Having practiced law for more than six years as a trial lawyer and patent lawyer, he now serves as a testifying and consulting expert, mediator, and arbitrator to law firms, businesses, government agencies, and courts. He served for two years on the Appellate Mediation Panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit until November 2007, and that December was appointed to serve a three-year term on the Patent Public Advisory Committee of the Patent and Trademark Office. In May 2008, he was recognized as one of the nation’s “Top 50 under 45” by the magazine IP Law & Business. He holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. (Biology, with focus in molecular genetics and biochemistry) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kathryn Newcomer, Director, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration; Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; (202) 994-3959 Professor Newcomer is the Director of the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration and teaches public and nonprofit, program evaluation, research design, and applied statistics. She routinely conducts research and training for federal and local government agencies and nonprofit organizations on performance measurement and program evaluation, and has designed and conducted evaluations for several U.S. federal agencies and dozens of nonprofit organizations. In addition, Dr. Newcomer has published five books has received two Fulbright awards, one for Taiwan (1993) and one for Egypt (2001-04). Dr. Newcomer earned an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Kansas, and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Iowa. Richard J. Pierce, Jr., Professor of Law Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it phone (202) 994-1549 Richard Pierce is Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law at George Washington University. He has written over a dozen books and 120 articles on government regulation and the effects of various forms of government intervention on the performance of markets. His books and articles have been cited in the opinions of numerous agencies and courts, including over a dozen opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court. Elizabeth Rigby, Assistant Professor in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; (202) 994-6196 Professor Rigby teaches courses on the role of politics in the policymaking process. Her research examines the interplay of politics, policy, and social inequality. In current projects, Rigby examines the representation of the poor across state legislatures, public opinion regarding health disparities, achievement gaps and other forms of social inequality, and the effect of electoral institutions on class and racial bias in political participation. Dr. Rigby holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) in Politics and Education from Columbia University. In addition, she received post-doctoral training in population health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar. Tara M. Sinclair, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; (202) 994-7988 Professor Sinclair’s research focuses on macroeconomic modeling, forecasting, and policy. She contributes regularly to the Survey of Professional Forecasters and is co-director of the GWU Research Program on Forecasting. She has also been a visiting scholar at the St. Louis Federal Reserve. She earned her PhD in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis. Christopher H. Sterling, Professor Media and Public Affairs, and of Public Policy and Public Administration Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it phone (202) 994-6350 Professor Sterling joined the GW faculty in early 1982, after serving nearly two years as special assistant to a commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission. He was a member of the Temple University faculty during the 1970s. His research interests include both electronic media and telecommunications policy, regulation, and history. He’s the author or editor of some 25 books, among which are Shaping American Telecommunications: A History of Technology, Policy, and Economics (2006), Military Communications From Ancient Times to the Present (2008), Sounds of Change: A History of FM Broadcasting in America (2008), and the six-volume Encyclopedia of Journalism (2010). Professor Sterling did all his academic work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with an undergraduate degree in political science, and his masters and Ph.D in mass communication. Personal website: www.ChrisSterling.com Kathryn H. Vesey, Research Associate, Regulatory Studies Center; Master of Public Policy Candidate, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; (202) 994-2974 Prior to joining the Regulatory Studies Center, she worked in government consulting, implementing projects at federal agencies. Her research interests include regulatory and fiscal policy, information economics, and U.S. education policy. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English, with minors in Economics and History, from Georgetown University and is currently pursuing a Master of Public Policy degree at the George Washington University in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. Hal Wolman, Director, The George Washington Institute of Public Policy; Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; (202) 994-3959 Professor Wolman is the Director of The George Washington Institute of Public Policy and a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. Dr. Wolman's fields of interest include urban and metropolitan policy and politics, local and regional economic development, state and local fiscal policy, and comparative urban policy and politics. He has published six books and over 60 journal articles and book chapters. Prior to coming to GW, Dr. Wolman was Director of the Policy Sciences graduate program at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County from 1997-2000. Before that, he was a professor of Political Science and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University.Professor Wolman holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Michigan and a Master's in Urban Planning from M.I.T. William P. Albrecht, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Iowa Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; (319) 530-5365 Professor Albrecht is the author of numerous book and articles on a wide range of economic issues. He taught at the University of Iowa from 1965 to 2007. From 1988 to 1993, he served as the Commissioner and Acting Chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). In this capacity he played an active role in developing the regulatory framework for financial derivatives in the US today. He was also the CFTC’s representative to the International Organization of Securities Commissions. After returning to Iowa in 1993, Professor Albrecht’s research focused on financial regulation in emerging markets and he helped governments in Asia and Latin America develop regulatory systems for futures and options. Earlier in his career, he worked on domestic and international economic policy as a Legislative Assistant to US Senator Dick Clark and spent 5 years in the US navy. Professor Albrecht holds an A.B. from Princeton University, an M.A. from the University of South Carolina, and a Ph. D. from Yale University. Arthur G. Fraas, Visiting Fellow, Resources for the Future Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Dr. Fraas joined Resources for the Future (RFF) as a Visiting Fellow in April 2009 after a distinguished career in senior positions within the federal government. In 2008, he retired after 21 years as chief of the Natural Resources, Energy, and Agriculture Branch in OIRA, part of OMB. Much of his work has examined the federal regulatory process, with a particular focus on the impact of environmental regulations. Before joining the OMB, Fraas was a senior economist at the Council on Wage and Price Stability, a staff member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, an assistant professor of economics at the U.S. Naval Academy, and a staff economist with the Federal Reserve System. He graduated from Cornell University in 1965 with a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics, and earned his doctorate in economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1972. Don W. King, Visiting Scholar and Emeritus Professor of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Dr. King is an emeritus professor of neurology at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) and a Senior Scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. . While at MCG, Dr. King was the Director of the Adult Epilepsy Program, maintained a large clinical practice, and published widely on topics related to epilepsy. His present research interests include health care regulation and health care policy. Dr. King earned a B.A. from Baylor University, an M.D. from the University of Texas Medical Branch, and a J.D. from the George Mason University School of Law. Randall W. Lutter, Visiting Scholar, Resources for the Future Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Currently a Visiting Scholar with Resources for the Future (RFF), Dr. Lutter has more than 20 years of senior experience in the management and evaluation of programs regulating health, safety and environmental risks, having served as senior economist in the Office of Management and Budget, as senior economist for environment and regulation at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and as the chief economist and deputy commissioner for policy at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Before joining the FDA, he was a resident scholar with the American Enterprise Institute and fellow with the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. His current research projects include the quality of economic analysis of regulations, efficient air pollution regulation in the presence of non-convexities and uncertainty, and the performance of government agencies responding to outbreaks of foodborne illness. He has published extensively, including co-editing a book, Painting the White House Green, on environmental policymaking in the executive office of the president. Brian F. Mannix, Visiting Scholar Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Brian Mannix is a recognized national expert on energy and environmental policy and regulation. From 2005 to 2009 he served as the Environmental Protection Agency's Associate Administrator for Policy, Economics, and Innovation; earlier he served as Deputy Secretary of Natural Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia. He has held appointments at a number of other federal and state agencies, and has held research positions at several public policy think tanks. From 1987 to 1989 Mr. Mannix was the Managing Editor of Regulation magazine at the American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Mannix earned A.B. and A.M. degrees from Harvard University in Mathematics and Chemistry, and an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Patrick A. McLaughlin, Visiting Scholar Contact:
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Andrew P. Morriss, D. Paul Jones, Jr. & Charlene Angelich Jones Chairholder of Law at the University of Alabama Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Professor Morriss is the author or coauthor of more than forty book chapters and scholarly articles. His latest book, Regulation by Litigation (with Bruce Yandle and Andrew Dorchak) is now available from Yale University Press. Before joining Illinois, he served as Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, where he was also associate dean from 2000 to 2003. He received his A.B. degree from Princeton University, his J.D. and a masters degree in public affairs from The University of Texas at Austin, and his Ph.D. (Economics) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After law school he clerked for U.S. District Judge Barefoot Sanders in the Northern District of Texas and worked for two years at Texas Rural Legal Aid in Hereford and Plainview, Texas. Craig Richardson, Associate Professor of Economics and Director for The Center of Economic Analysis, Winston-Salem State University Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Professor Richardson’s research has focused on identifying misaligned incentives in the marketplace, often created from government policies. He has examined (and offered solutions to) problems arising from mandatory health insurance, electronic medical records, weakened property rights, and most recently, corporate branding and consumer trust. He is the author of The Collapse of Zimbabwe in the Wake of the 2000-2003 Land Reforms as well as numerous articles in popular and scholarly publications. He also consults regularly with The Institute for Liberty and Democracy, headquartered in Peru, and has been a Visiting Research Fellow at The American Institute for Economic Research for the past seven years. Professor Richardson has also worked with the U.S. State Department in Zimbabwe and for The World Bank. Professor Richardson earned a B.A. with honors in Economics from Kenyon College, and his Ph.D in Economics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Paul H. Rubin, Professor of Economics, Emory University Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; (404) 727-6365 Prior to teaching at Emory University, Professor Rubin served on President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, and held high level positions on the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Product Safety Commission. Having taught at numerous universities, and publishing seven books, his primary research interests include the regulation of pharmaceuticals and economics of privacy and information. Professor Rubin earned a B.A. with Honors from the University of Cincinnati and a Ph.D (Economics) from Purdue University. Houman B. Shadab, Associate Professor of Law, Associate Director of the Center on Financial Services Law, New York Law School Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; 212-431-2826 Professor Shadab is an internationally recognized expert in financial law and regulation and the author of several widely cited articles on hedge funds and credit derivatives. Professor Shadab has testified before Congress hedge funds and the financial crisis and also on the compensation of public company executives. Governmental bodies have recognized Professor Shadab's research, which has been cited in court opinions and in studies published by the U.K. House of Commons and the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Professor Shadab is frequently asked to contribute to authoritative works including a book chapter on hedge fund lending to be published by Oxford University Press. Professor Shadab received a B.A. in economics with High Honors from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of Southern California. Stuart Shapiro, Associate Professor and Director of Public Policy Program, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Professor Shapiro's research focuses on the regulatory process and regulatory reform, including the role of cost-benefit analysis, public participation, Adam Smith, Instructor in Economics, Johnson & Wales University Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Adam Smith is an Assistant Professor in Economics at Johnson and Wales University and specializes in experimental economics and public choice. His work involves experimental applications of questions in political economy, the economics of decision-making when no external enforcement is readily available, and the recent economic crisis of 2008-2010 with a focus on the development of the Troubled Assets Relief Program. He has published in Regulation magazine, Public Choice, and Social Choice & Welfare. Currently, he is writing a book with Bruce Yandle on the theory of Bootleggers & Baptists, to be published by the CATO Institute. Kai Wegrich, Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin Germany Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Prior to the Hertie School, Wegrich held positions at Humboldt University Berlin, the RAND Corporation (Berlin and Cambridge) and the London School of Economics. Kai Wegrich is a founding member of the specialist group on Executive Politics and Governance (executivepolitics.org) of the (UK) Political Studies Association and co-chair of the permanent study group on Performance in the Public Sector (publicsectorperformance.eu) of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA). In January 2011, Kai joins the editorial team of Public Administration as European editor. His main areas of research include comparative public management reform, regulatory reform and core executive governance. Current research projects include “Coordination and Coordination in the Public Sector of the Future” – an evaluation of New Public Management reforms in Europe (carried out by a consortium of 9 European Universities and “Regulatory Analysis and Public Management” (joint book project with Martin Lodge. LSE). Professor Wegrich is a political scientist with degrees from the Free University Berlin Potsdam University. |
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