Robert Ebel

Consultant, Lead Expert for the Development of e-Learning courses on Intergovernmental Relations and Local Public Financial Management, World Bank; Senior Advisor, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies. Former Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Chief Economist for the Washington, DC Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO); Chair, Steering Committee of the Local Government and Public Sector Service Reform Initiative, LGI (Soros Foundation/ Open Society Institute, Budapest); Senior Fellow, Tax Policy Center, Urban Institute/Brookings Institution; Lead Economist and Organizing Lead, World Bank Institute program on Public Finance, Intergovernmental Relations and Local Public Financial Management; Director of Public Finance Research, U. S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR); Director, Tax Studies and Tax Study Commissions in New Hampshire, the South Carolina ACIR, Nevada, Minnesota, the District of Columbia, Hawaii. Former Supervisory Economist and Deputy Director, Division of Public Finance and Economic Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development/Policy Development and Research.