Can Chen is an associate professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, where he founded and leads the Infrastructure Finance & Policy Lab. His core research agenda is developing and promoting innovative, efficient, and effective financing to support critical infrastructure that is sustainable and resilient in its funding, use, performance, and maintenance. Dr. Chen’s substantive research topic interests include infrastructure finance and policy, fiscal transparency, disaster finance, and the intersection between public finance and public management and policy. His methodological interests are causal research designs and computational social sciences. His professional website is available at https://sites.google.com/view/canchen/home.

Dr. Chen is the coauthor, with John R. Bartle, of Innovative Infrastructure Finance: A Guide to State and Local Governments. His journal publications appear in Public Budgeting and Finance, Public Finance Review, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, Municipal Finance Journal, Policy Studies Journal, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Transport Policy, Public Works Management & Policy, Public Administration, American Review of Public Administration, Public Management Review, International Public Management Journal, International Review of Administrative Sciences, State and Local Government Review, and others. He has received three national research awards: the William J. Petak Best Paper Award from the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), the ASPA’s Garcia-Zamor Best Paper Award, and the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration’s Best Doctoral Student Manuscript Award. His research has been supported by grant funding from the World Bank, Governmental Accounting Standards Board, International City/County Management Association, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and Open Government Partnership.

Professionally, Dr. Chen serves as the chair of the ASPA Section on Transportation Policy and Administration and an executive board member for the Association of Budgeting and Financial Management.  He is a certified research associate at the Mineta Transportation Institute; a friend of the Economics, Revenue, and Finance (AJE50) committee on the Transportation Research Board; and an affiliated faculty member for the Center for State and Local Finance at GSU. He is the associate editor for the Journal of International Review of Public Administration and the Journal of Chinese Public Administration Review.
 

Alex Hathaway is a senior research associate in the Public Finance Research Cluster, specializing in state fiscal health. He is the principal investigator on the Center for State and Local Finance’s multistate evaluation of budgeting and financial management practices for the Volcker Alliance’s Truth and Integrity in Government Finance project. Hathaway also contributes to the cluster’s economic development, tax policy, and education policy research. He holds a BA and an MA from the University of Georgia, an MPP from Georgia State University, and a professional doctorate from Life University. His other areas of interest include health care systems and finance, aging policy, and program evaluation.