Francis Conway

Mr. Conway, a Senior Associate at the Urban Institute since 1994, has more than 30 years of experience with urban planning; fiscal decentralization policy analysis and reform; and local finance in developing and transitioning countries. He has conducted research on local government and directed support for decentralization reforms in Central and Eastern Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia), Newly Independent States (NIS) – Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine – Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan), and Asia (Cambodia and Pakistan). Currently he is engaged in UI local government programs in Cambodia, Honduras, and Pakistan. Much of his work has focused on identifying and implementing lasting mechanisms to finance and improve basic services in urban areas, with emphasis on efforts to extend such services to poor urban households.

Areas of Expertise: Fiscal decentralization; intergovernmental finance; local tax and fee administration; water sector decentralization; capital and performance-based budgeting; municipal credit financing; and urban growth management and planning.

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