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12th
Annual Conference
Forecasting
the Greater Washington Economy:
2004
New
Parameters of the Growth Cycle
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.
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