Roy Bahl
Dean and Professor
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Georgia State University

An expert in public finance, Roy Bahl has extensive experience consulting on state and local government issues with public and private agencies, including Standard & Poor's Corp., several city and state governments, and federal agencies. He serves as principal economic advisor to IBM's Worldwide Tax Practice.

Prof. Bahl is past President of the prestigious National Tax Association and headed the staffs of both the Ohio and Georgia Tax Commissions. He has served on the editorial boards of the National Tax Journal, The Journal of Public Budgeting and Finance, and Growth and Change. He is the author of the book Fiscal Policy in China, and with Johannes Linn, of Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries.

Prof. Bahl has consulted on fiscal matters with governments in developing and transitional economies all over the world, as well as with the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United Nations and the World Bank. He is the author of numerous books, monographs and scholarly papers in the area of urban/regional economics, public finance and economic development. He came to Georgia State from Syracuse University, where he was the Director of the Metropolitan Studies Program and Maxwell Professor of Political Economy.Back