Keynote Bios
 David Rusk combines strong analytical skills with practical political experience. His focus is how urban sprawl, racial segregation, and concentrated poverty interact and impact a region's growth patterns, social equity, and quality of life. A former mayor of Albuquerque (the 36th largest U.S. city), state legislator, and federal official, Rusk is a strong champion of regional strategies, particularly growth management, mixed-income housing, and tax base sharing.
"David Rusk is the hottest urban expert in the nation today," the Baltimore Sun commented in reviewing Baltimore Unbound. "Cities without Suburbs," the Congressional Quarterlywrote, "has virtually become the Bible of the regionalism movement." The Government FInance Review called Rusk's most recent book Inside Game/Outside Game a "must-read for all practicing local government officials, elected or appointed, working in a metropolitan area."
Since 1993 he has spoken and consulted in over 120 U.S. communities. Abroad, Rusk has lectured on urban problems in England, Berlin, Stuttgart, and Frankfurt, Germany; and in Toronto and Victoria, Canada. In 1997 he served as an advisor to the government of South Africa on metropolitan governance in Johannesburg, Capetown, and Durban. During 2000 he was a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam and Delft Technical University in The Netherlands.
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 David Y. Miller has been serving as GSPIA's Associate Dean since 1998, and from August 2006 to July 2007 he served as Interim Dean. He is also an Associate Professor of Public and Urban Affairs, and his areas of expertise include comparative regional governance, urban public finance, research methods, law and politics of local government, administrative theory, and theories of public management.
He has published in Urban Affairs Review, Government Finance Review, Urban Studies, and Publius: The Journal of Federalism, among many others. Recent books include Cooperation without Consolidation in Metropolitan Governance without Metropolitan Government(with R. Miranda, Ashgate Publishing, 2004) and The Regional Governing of Metropolitan America (Westview Press, 2002).
Miller serves on the Boards of the Local Government Academy and Sustainable Pittsburgh and is a Commissioner with the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission. He is frequently consulted on matters of public finance and regionalization, most recently to discuss Monroeville's deficit spending and reserve budget and the unification and collaboration of Ohio's Mahoning Valley.
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