 Stephen Fuller |
 John McClain |
 Lisa Sturtevant |
 Katrin Anacker |
Stephen S. Fuller, Ph.D.
Dwight Schar Faculty Chair and University Professor
Director, Center for Regional Analysis, School of Public Policy
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Professor Fuller joined the faculty at George Mason University in 1994 as Professor of Public Policy and Regional Development. He served as Director of the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy from July 1998 to June 2000 and from July 2001 to July 2002. He also serves is Director of the Center for Regional Analysis. In September 2001, the GMU Board of Visitors appointed him University Professor and in July 2002 he was named to the Dwight Schar Faculty Chair.
Prior to joining the George Mason University faculty, he served on the faculty at George Washington University for twenty-five years, including nine as Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning and Real Estate Development and one as Director of Doctoral Programs for the School of Business and Public Management.
Dr. Fuller received a B.A. in Economics from Rutgers University (1962) and his Doctorate in Regional Planning and Economic Development (1969) from Cornell University. He has authored more than 750 articles, papers, and reports in the field of urban and regional economic development including monthly reports on the Washington metropolitan area (since 2/91) and Fairfax County economies (6/97 to 6/09).
His research focuses on the changing structure of metropolitan area economies and measuring their current and near-term performance. He developed a monthly series of indicators that track the current and near-term performance of the Washington’s area economy in 1990. He also developed leading and coincident indices for Fairfax County in 1997 and prepared monthly reports for the County from June 1997 through June 2009.
His research includes studies on the impacts of federal spending, the hospitality industry, international business and the building industry on the Washington area economy. His international assignments include Kazakhstan, Georgia, Hungary and China as well as on-going projects in Portugal. Many of his reports are available on the Center for Regional Analysis website (www.cra-gmu.org).
Governor Kaine appointed him to the Governor’s Advisory Board of Economists and appointment he had held under Governors Warner, Allen and Wilder. In 2003, he was a member of the Governor Warner’s Tax Reform Working Group. He also is a member of the CFO Advisory Group of the District of Columbia. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Environment and Technology Foundation and Tompkins Builders Inc., a DC-based company. He served as an economic advisor to Fairfax County, VA between 1995 and 2009 and was appointed by the Board of Supervisors to serve on the Board of Directors of the Fairfax County Convention and Visitors Authority for a five-year term ending in 2009. In 2007, he was appointed by Cardinal Bank as its Chief Economist.
In 1996, he was honored by the Economic Club of Washington as Educator of the Year and in 1997 was selected for the Richard T. Ely Distinguished Educator Award by Lambda Alpha International, an honorary society of land economists. He served as President of the Washington Chapter of Lambda Alpha from 1998 to 2000 and is a member of the Urban Land Institute’s Washington District Council. He was a NAIOP Distinguished Fellow from 2001 through 2008.
John McClain
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director Center for Regional Analysis
Mr. McClain is a senior professional with over 30 years of experience analyzing the Washington region. His areas of expertise include regional economic development, economic and housing analyses, metropolitan transportation planning and land use studies, and analysis of real estate markets. Mr. McClain has been with the Center since 2001. In addition to his research activities, he teaches transportation policy and planning courses in the School of Public Policy’s graduate program.
For fifteen years he was at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments where he directed the planning and policy programs and economic and demographic forecasting programs for the Washington region. He helped establish and for several years directed the Cooperative Forecasting Program, which provided official forecasts for metropolitan and local planning programs in the region. Following this work with the public sector, Mr. McClain was a senior executive at the Greater Washington Board of Trade, where he directed policy and research programs for the region’s business community. He helped establish and directed The Potomac Conference, a process of convening the region’s public and private sector leadership to address regional issues. He created the “State of Potomac” presentation and other economic research and analytical materials regarding the size and changing nature of the regional economy. He also directed a regional transportation analysis for the metropolitan Washington area. Following his work at the Board of Trade, Mr. McClain directed economic and real estate research for the Northeast region of the U.S. for a major international commercial real estate company.
Mr. McClain received a BS in Civil Engineering from Duke University and a Masters of Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Planning Association, the National Capital Region Technology Investor Conference, and the Arlington County Planning Commission. He received the 1998 Individual Achievement Award for service to the Washington region by the National Capital Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is a graduate of Leadership Washington.
Lisa A. Sturtevant, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, George Mason University School of Public Policy
Dr. Lisa A. Sturtevant is Research Assistant Professor at the George Mason University School of Public Policy in the Center for Regional Analysis. Dr. Sturtevant’s primary areas of research include housing, demographics, and economic development. Prior to working at the GMU Center for Regional Analysis, she spent four years as County Demographer in the Arlington County Department of Community Planning, Housing and Development.
Dr. Sturtevant completed her PhD in Public Policy in May 2006. Her dissertation was titled Immigrant Suburbs: An Analysis of the Residential Mobility and Location Decisions of Recent Immigrants. She received her master’s degree in public policy from the University of Maryland and a BS in mathematical economics from Wake Forest University.
Dr. Sturtevant’s recent publications include Need for Affordable/Workforce Housing in Fairfax County (with John McClain), The Impact of Mixed Use/Mixed Income Housing Development in the Richmond Area (with John McClain), Policies and Programs to Preserve Affordable Housing: A Review of Incentives and Recommendations for Northern Virginia, “Affordable Rentals to the Rescue” in Planning magazine, Foreclosures in the Washington DC Region (with John McClain), and National Economic Impact of Non-Profit Downpayment Assistance Providers (with Stephen Fuller.) Dr. Sturtevant also writes monthly reports for the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors and quarterly reports for the Richmond Association of Realtors on the local and state housing markets. She speaks frequently to local community and business groups.
Katrin B. Anacker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, George Mason University School of Public Policy
Dr. Katrin B. Anacker is currently an Assistant Professor at George Mason University’s School of Public Policy and with the Center for Regional Analysis. Her primary areas of expertise include housing, housing policy, urban policy, race and public policy, real estate markets, statistical methods, qualitative methods, and research writing. Dr. Anacker completed her Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning at The Ohio State University in June 2006. She obtained Master’s degrees in City and Regional Planning in September 1999 and in Arts (Public Policy and Management) in June 1999, also from The Ohio State University. Before she joined George Mason University she held positions as Research Assistant Professor (August 2007 – May 2009) and as Post Doctoral Fellow (August 2006 – July 2007) at the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech in Alexandria, VA where she served as Co-Editor of the academic journal Housing Policy Debate. She served as Editor of The New Planner for the American Planning Association (APA) from August 1999 to June 2000.
Dr. Anacker’s dissertation focused on house prices in mature suburbs in Ohio, based on mixed methods, including regression analyses and expert interviews in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland area), Franklin County (Columbus area), and Hamilton County (Cincinnati area). Analyzing House Prices in Mature Suburbs in Ohio was published in August 2009.
Dr. Anacker received research grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA) at The Ohio State University, and the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, among others. She received fellowships from the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech, the Urban Land Institute (ULI), the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Lambda Alpha International, the German-American Fulbright Commission, and U.S. Congress/Deutscher Bundestag.
Dr. Anacker’s work has been published in Housing Policy Debate, the Journal of Urban Affairs, Housing and Society, Die Alte Stadt [The Old City], Urban Geography, FOCUS on Geography, Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen [Petermann's Geographic News], and the Journal of Urban Technology.