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 and Deputy Director
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.

Mr. Preston's professional experience spans over 35 years and includes statistical and economic analysis, forecasting, survey research, economic development planning, and teaching. He received a B.A. in Economics from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and a Master's degree from the University of Maryland in Measurement and Applied Statistics.

For the past 10 years, Mr. Preston has developed and maintained monthly composite economic indicators for the Washington Metropolitan Area, consisting leading and coincident indices. The leading index is a predictor of the near term state of the economy, while the coincident index represents the current state of the economy. Mr. Preston also developed a similar set of indicators for Fairfax County, Virginia. Both of these sets of indicators and their components are accessible from this website.

Mr. Preston has also conducted numerous analyses of the impacts of federal procurements on the Washington Metropolitan Area; Montgomery County, Maryland; Houston, Texas; and Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California.

For seventeen years, Mr. Preston served as a senior project analyst/team leader with the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy. During this period, he was primarily responsible for the planning, development, and implementation of the Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey (MECS)-a scientifically-designed national survey of over 12,000 manufacturing establishments throughout the United States to collect information on energy consumption and fuel-switching capability.

Some of Mr. Preston's other assignments have included the preparation and analyses of industrial development potential for cities and counties in Tennessee for the State of Tennessee Industrial Development Commission; the development of an input-output study for New Orleans, Louisiana, which included designing and conducting a survey of business and industrial establishments; and serving as analytical and planning advisor to six of the 13 Appalachian States in their preparation of annual development plans required by the Appalachian Regional Commission.

Mr. Preston has held teaching assignments in statistics at The University of Maryland, and The George Washington University in Washington, DC.

LAURIE SCHINTLER, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy

Dr. Laurie Schintler is Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, where she teaches graduate courses on transportation theory and models, regional development theory, and statistics and econometrics. Dr. Schintler has written numerous articles and papers in her field, including "A Prototype Dynamic Transportation Network Model" and "Evaluation of the Smart Flexible Integrated Real-time Enhancement System (SaFIRES)". She is Book Review Editor for the Annals of Regional Science, and, among other service activities, is helping the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments design and set up a web site for complaints regarding signalized intersections in the Washington region. Dr. Schintler received her Ph.D. in Regional Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

ROGER STOUGH, Ph.D
Professor of Public Policy
NOVA Endowed Chair

Dr. Roger Stough, ITS Center Director, is a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the NOVA Endowed Chair, is Professor of Public Policy, and is an Eminent Scholar. He is also Associate Dean for Research and External Relations at George Mason's School of Public Policy, and he is Director of the Mason Enterprise Center at George Mason. During the past year Dr. Stough has published two books on transportation, Intelligent Transport Systems and Transport Policy. He has authored more than one hundred scholarly articles, including many on intelligent transport systems, such as "Evaluating ITS Infrastructure in a Metropolitan Area" and "Impact of Network Configuration on the Efficacy of ITS". Dr. Stough also writes extensively on regional development issues, and has recently published two books on this topic, Regional Economic Development and Theories of Endogenous Regional Growth. Dr. Stough's research interests in ITS include evaluation, telecommuting, and traveler information systems. He received his Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins.