IGPA engages a wide range of policy-oriented faculty across the University System who collaborate within focused working groups. Each of these groups is comprised of dozens of faculty researchers representing each of the three System universities. As questions arise in both the public sphere and academia, IGPA scholars use the latest research methods and work together to evaluate current affairs, ask tough questions, and identify possible solutions.
Members of this working group research ways to make Illinois’ economic and fiscal structure equitable, dynamic, and sustainable.
Interim Director, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor, Public Administration, Economics, Urban Planning and Policy | University of Illinois Chicago
dmerrim@uic.edu View Profile
Associate Professor, School of Public Management and Policy | University of Illinois Springfield
rfund2@uis.edu View Profile
| Affiliation | Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Program, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs | University of Illinois Chicago |
| pashton@uic.edu |
| Affiliation | Dean and Josef and Margot Lakonishok Professor of Business, College of Business | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| brownjr@illinois.edu |
| Affiliation | Professor, School of Public Management and Policy | University of Illinois Springfield |
| bbunc1@uis.edu |
| Affiliation | Associate Professor, College of Business and Management | University of Illinois Springfield |
| pbyrn1@uis.edu |
| Affiliation | Director, CUPPA | University of Illinois Chicago |
| deborahc@uic.edu |
| Affiliation | Professor, Department of Finance, College of Business | University of Illinois Chicago |
| chirinko@uic.edu |
| Affiliation | Director, Budgeting for Results Unit, Governor's Office of Management and Budget, Springfield, Illinois |
| Curt.ClemonsMosby@illinois.gov |
| Affiliation | Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| jwcoppes@illinois.edu |
| Affiliation | - |
| natalieadavila@sbcglobal.net |
| Affiliation | Professsor, Accountancy | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| mdonohoe@illinois.edu |
| Affiliation | Professor, Department of Urban and Regional planning | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| mdouss1@illinois.edu |
| Affiliation | Associate Professor, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs | University of Illinois Springfield |
| jdruck@uic.edu |
| Affiliation | Professor Emeritus, Institute of Government and Public Affairs | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| jgiertz@illinois.edu |
| Affiliation | Emeritus Director of the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL), Department of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Fine & Applied Arts | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| hewings@illinois.edu |
| Affiliation | Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| glhoward@illinois.edu |
| Affiliation | Assistant Professor, Gies College of Business | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| mlh80@illinois.edu |
| Affiliation | Guy Raymond Jones Chair in Law, College of Law | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| rkaplan@illinois.edu |
| Affiliation | Associate Director, Government Finance Research Center | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ckhalaf@uic.edu |
| Affiliation | Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Public Management and Policy | University of Illinois Springfield |
| asrit1@uis.edu |
| Affiliation | Deputy Associate Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| jonglee1@illinois.edu |
| Affiliation | Professor, College of Law | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| jmcclane@illinois.edu |
| Affiliation | Associate Professor, Department of Finance, College of Business | University of Illinois Chicago |
| murphyd@uic.edu |
| Affiliation | Lead Research Programmer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| cmnavarr@illinois.edu |
| Affiliation | Interim Associate Director, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| epowers@illinois.edu |
| Affiliation | Associate Professor and RC Evans Data Analytics Fellow, Gies College of Business | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| jreif@illinois.edu |
| Affiliation | Dean and Professor, College of Public Affairs and Administration | University of Illinois Springfield |
| rsmit27@uis.edu |
| Affiliation | Associate Director for Economic Development and Innovation, VP EDI | UI System |
| bktaylor@uillinois.edu |
| Affiliation | Professor, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs | University of Illinois Chicago |
| rachelw@uic.edu |
| Affiliation | Senior Lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy | University of Chicago |
| pworthington@uchicago.edu |
| Affiliation | Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs | University of Illinois Chicago |
| yonghong@uic.edu |
Contact IGPA
Interim Director, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor, Public Administration, Economics, Urban Planning and Policy | University of Illinois Chicago
David Merriman
