Fiscal and Economic Policy
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.
GROUP LEADS
Richard Funderburg
Professor, School of Public Management and Policy | University of Illinois Springfield
rfund2@uis.edu View Profile
David Merriman
James J. Stukel Presidential Professor, Department of Public Policy, Management and Analytics, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs | University of Illinois Chicago
dmerrim@uic.edu View ProfileWORKING GROUP MEMBERS
Philip Ashton
| Affiliation | Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Program, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs | University of Illinois Chicago |
| pashton@uic.edu |
Jeffrey R. Brown
| Affiliation | Dean and Josef and Margot Lakonishok Professor of Business, College of Business | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| brownjr@illinois.edu |
Beverly Bunch
| Affiliation | Professor, School of Public Management and Policy | University of Illinois Springfield |
| bbunc1@uis.edu |
Patricia Byrnes
| Affiliation | Associate Professor, College of Business and Management | University of Illinois Springfield |
| pbyrn1@uis.edu |
Deborah Carroll
| Affiliation | Director, CUPPA | University of Illinois Chicago |
| deborahc@uic.edu |
Robert Chirinko
| Affiliation | Professor, Department of Finance, College of Business | University of Illinois Chicago |
| chirinko@uic.edu |
Curt Clemons-Mosby
| Affiliation | Director, Budgeting for Results Unit, Governor's Office of Management and Budget, Springfield, Illinois |
| Curt.ClemonsMosby@illinois.gov |
Jonathan Coppess
| Affiliation | Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| jwcoppes@illinois.edu |
Natalie Davila
| Affiliation | - |
| natalieadavila@sbcglobal.net |
Craig De Voto
| Affiliation | Visiting Research Associate |
| cdevot2@uic.edu |
Michael Donahoe
| Affiliation | Professsor, Accountancy | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| mdonohoe@illinois.edu |
Marc Doussard
| Affiliation | Professor, Department of Urban and Regional planning | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| mdouss1@illinois.edu |
Joshua Drucker
| Affiliation | Associate Professor, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs | University of Illinois Springfield |
| jdruck@uic.edu |
Kerry Fang
| Affiliation | Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning | College of Fine and Applied Arts | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| kfang@illinois.edu |
Fred Giertz
| Affiliation | Professor Emeritus, Institute of Government and Public Affairs | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| jgiertz@illinois.edu |
Adam Groner
| Affiliation | Senior Economist | Illinois Governor's Office of Management and Budget |
| Adam.Groner@Illinois.gov |
Geoffrey Hewings
| 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 |
Greg Howard
| Affiliation | Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| glhoward@illinois.edu |
Michelle Hutchens
| Affiliation | Assistant Professor, Gies College of Business | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| mlh80@illinois.edu |
Richard L. Kaplan
| Affiliation | Guy Raymond Jones Chair in Law, College of Law | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| rkaplan@illinois.edu |
Christelle Khalaf
| Affiliation | Associate Director, Government Finance Research Center | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ckhalaf@uic.edu |
Arwi Kriz
| Affiliation | Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Public Management and Policy | University of Illinois Springfield |
| asrit1@uis.edu |
Jong Sung Lee
| Affiliation | Deputy Associate Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| jonglee1@illinois.edu |
Justin Markowski
| Affiliation | Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Administration | University of Illinois Chicago |
| markow@uic.edu |
Jeremy McClane
| Affiliation | Professor, College of Law | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| jmcclane@illinois.edu |
Dermot Murphy
| Affiliation | Associate Professor, Department of Finance, College of Business | University of Illinois Chicago |
| murphyd@uic.edu |
Christopher Navarro
| Affiliation | Lead Research Programmer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| cmnavarr@illinois.edu |
Elizabeth Powers
| 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 |
Kent Redfield
| Affiliation | Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science | University of lllinois Springfield |
| kredf1@uis.edu |
Julian Reif
| Affiliation | Associate Professor and RC Evans Data Analytics Fellow, Gies College of Business | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| jreif@illinois.edu |
Jacob Robbins
| Affiliation | Assistant Professor | Economics | University of Illinois Chicago |
| jar88@uic.edu |
Robert Smith
| Affiliation | Dean and Professor, College of Public Affairs and Administration | University of Illinois Springfield |
| rsmit27@uis.edu |
Matthew Tarduno
| Affiliation | Assistant Professor, Economics | University of Illinois Chicago |
| tarduno@uic.edu |
Ben Taylor
| Affiliation | Associate Director for Economic Development and Innovation, VP EDI | UI System |
| bktaylor@uillinois.edu |
Thomas Theis
| Affiliation | Professor and Director | The Institute for Environmental Science and Policy Environmental Engineering | University of Illinois Chicago |
| theist@uic.edu |
Paula Worthington
| Affiliation | Senior Lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy | University of Chicago |
| pworthington@uchicago.edu |
Hoyoung Yoo
| Affiliation | Assistant Professor of Economics | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| hoyoung@illinois.edu |
Suyang Yu
| Affiliation | Lecturer, School of Public Management and Policy | University of Illinois Springfield |
| syu70@uis.edu |