Lawrence Lokken
International tax expert Lawrence Lokken will be a visiting fellow in our Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center in fall 2009. Mr. Lokken is the Hugh Culverhouse Eminent Scholar in Taxation at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He also taught at New York University, Northwestern University, Duke University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Georgia, as well as universities in the Netherlands, Germany, South Africa, and Poland.
Mr. Lokken is coauthor of Fundamentals of International Taxation, Federal Taxation of Employee Compensation, and Federal Taxation of Income, Estates & Gifts, now in its third edition. Mr. Lokken has served as editor-in-chief of the Tax Law Review and editor of the Florida Tax Review. He earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Minnesota.
Sandra J. Newman
Sandra J. Newman is Professor of Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Center on Housing, Neighborhoods and Communities in its Institute for Policy Studies. She holds joint appointments in the Departments of Sociology and of Health Policy and Management (in the Bloomberg School of Public Health). She was a Fulbright Senior Fellow at the Australian National University and a Visiting Scholar in the research office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, for which she received a Distinguished Service Award. Her research focuses on the role of housing in the lives of families, children, and disabled populations. Her most recent (2009 and 2008) articles appear in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and the Journal of Urban Affairs. She is on the editorial boards of Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Housing Policy Debate and Cityscape.
Kenneth Couch
Dr. Kenneth Couch, a leading expert on disadvantaged groups in the labor market, will be working with the Income and Benefits Policy Center and the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population as a visiting fellow. Dr. Couch is an economics professor at the University of Connecticut, a visiting associate professor at Yale University, a consultant with the Connecticut State Department of Labor’s Office of Research, and coeditor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. He also has taught Syracuse University and received his Ph.D. in labor economics from the University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Couch’s research focuses on displaced workers, economic mobility, and income inequality. He also studies racial and gender disparities in pay and employment and the effectiveness of the earned income tax credit, minimum wage policies, and employment training for welfare recipients.
Brian Holland
Brian Holland has more than 20 years of economic and workforce development experience in local government agencies and the private sector. As an independent consultant, Mr. Holland guides clients through community, economic, workforce, and youth development and education issues. He provides technical assistance on data analysis, partnership building, policy research, program design and coordination, and grant writing. His clients include community colleges, hospital networks, trade associations, foundations, and nonprofits.
Mr. Holland received his Masters in Public Administration and Masters in Urban Planning from Columbia University. He has served on the boards of directors of Jobs for Virginia Graduates and NYC Habitat for Humanity. Mr. Holland will be joining the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population as a visiting fellow, and also plans to work with staff in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Center.
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