STEPHEN S. FULLER,Ph.D,
University Professor and Professor of Public Policy and Regional Development
Director, Center for Regional Analysis, School of Public Policy

Professor Fuller joined the faculty at George Mason University in 1994 as Professor of Public Policy and served as Director of the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy from July 1998 to June 2000 and again since July 2001. He also serves as Director of the Center for Regional Analysis. In September 2001, the GMU Board of Visitors appointed him University Professor.

Prior to joining the George Mason University faculty, he served on the faculty at George Washington University for twenty-five years, including nine as Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning and Real Estate Development and one as Director of Doctoral Programs for the School of Business and Public Management.

Dr. Fuller received a B.A. in Economics from Rutgers University (1962) and his Doctorate in Regional Planning and Economic Development (1969) from Cornell University. He has authored more than 500 articles, papers, and reports in the field of urban and regional economic development including monthly reports on the Washington metropolitan area and Fairfax county economies.

His research has focused on the changing structure of metropolitan area economies and measuring its current and near-term performance. He developed a series of indicators to track the current and near-term performance of the Washington's area economy in 1990 and authored Economy Watch, published monthly by the Greater Washington Research Center from February 1991 to September 1996. These indicators are currently available monthly on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Government's website. He also developed leading and coincident indices for Fairfax County in 1997 that are published monthly on the County's website. His Washington area research includes studies on the impacts of federal spending, the hospitality industry, international business, and technology on the Washington area and District of Columbia economies. His research also includes international assignments including on going projects in Portugal.

Professor Fuller serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Environment and Technology Foundation and is an economic advisor to Fairfax County, VA, and Charles County, MD. He served on the Governor's Advisory Board of Economists for the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1991 to 1997 and the Virginia Commission on the Commonwealth's Planning and Budgeting Process from 1998-1999. He presently serves on the State of Maryland Board of Revenue Estimates' Business Advisory Board and is a member of the DC Office of Tax and Revenue Business Advisory Group.

In 1996, he was honored by the Economic Club of Washington as Educator of the Year and in 1997 was selected for the Richard T. Ely Distinguished Educator Award by Lambda Alpha International, an honorary society of land economists. He served as President of the Washington Chapter of Lambda Alpha from 1998 to 2000 and is a member of the Urban Land Institute's Washington District Council. In 2001, he was selected by NAIOP as a Distinguished Fellow for a three-year term running through 2004.

JOHN MCCLAIN, Senior Fellow
Center for Regional Analysis

John is a senior professional with over 25 years of experience analyzing the Washington region. For fifteen years he was at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments where he directed the planning and policy programs and economic and demographic forecasting programs for the Washington region. He helped establish and for several years directed the Cooperative Forecasting Program, which provided official forecasts for metropolitan and local planning programs in the region. Following this work with the public sector, John was a senior executive at the Greater Washington Board of Trade, where he directed policy and research programs for the region's business community. He helped establish and directed The Potomac Conference, a process of convening the region's public and private sector leadership to address regional issues. He created the "State of Potomac" presentation and other economic research and analytical materials regarding the size and changing nature of the regional economy. Following his work at the Board of Trade, John directed economic and real estate research for the Northeast region of the U.S. for a major international commercial real estate company.

John received a BS in Civil Engineering from Duke University and a Masters of Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Planning Association, the National Capital Region Technology Investor Conference, and the Arlington County Planning Commission. He received the 1998 Individual Achievement Award for service to the Washington region by the National Capital Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is a graduate of Leadership Washington.

LISA A. FOWLER, PhD
Research Assistant Professor,
Center for Regional Analysis, School of Public Policy

Dr. Lisa Fowler is a Research Assistant Professor at George Mason University. Her primary areas of research include housing, demographics, and economic development. Dr. Fowler completed her PhD in Public Policy at George Mason University in May 2006. She received Virginia Association of Realtors scholarships in 2004 and 2006. Her dissertation was titled Immigrant Suburbs: An Analysis of the Residential Mobility and Location Decisions of Recent Immigrants. Dr. Fowler received her master's degree in public policy from the University of Maryland and a BS in mathematical economics from Wake Forest University.

Dr. Fowler's recent publications include Need for Affordable/Workforce Housing in Fairfax County (with John McClain), National Economic Impact of Non-Profit Downpayment Assistance Providers (with Stephen Fuller) and Economic Development Potential and Implications: Report to the City of Falls Church (with John McClain).

She has given recent presentations at the annual conference of the American Planning Association on workforce housing and at the meeting of the Regional Science Association on the relationship between housing costs, job growth and residential location.

Prior to working at George Mason University, Dr. Fowler spent four years as County Demographer in the Arlington County Department of Community Planning, Housing and Development.

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