Terry Clower, Ph.D.
Northern Virginia Chair and University Professor
Director, Center for Regional Analysis, Schar School of Policy and Government
George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia
tclower@gmu.edu
Terry L. Clower is Northern Virginia Chair and professor of public policy in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is also director of Mason’s Center for Regional Analysis. The Center provides economic and public policy research services to sponsors in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors. Prior to joining Mason, Clower was director for the Center for Economic Development and Research at the University of North Texas. He also spent 10 years employed in private industry in logistics and transportation management positions.
Clower has authored or co-authored more than 150 articles, book chapters, and research reports reflecting experience in economic and community development, economic and fiscal impact analysis, transportation, land use planning, housing, and economic forecasting. His scholarly articles have appeared in Economic Development Quarterly; Urban Studies; Economic Development Review; Regional Studies, Regional Science; the Australasian Journal of Regional Studies; Regional Studies Regional Science, Sustaining Regions; and Applied Research in Economic Development. He recently completed a term as regional (Americas) editor for the journal Regional Science Policy and Practice.
Clower received a BS in marine transportation from Texas A&M University in 1982, a MS in applied economics from the University of North Texas in 1992, and a PhD in information sciences from the University of North Texas in 1997, specializing in information policy issues and the use of information resources.
Areas of Research: Economic Development, Economic Policy, Quantitative Methods, Regional Development, Transportation Policy, Regional Economic Performance, Economic Forecasting, Economic and Fiscal Impacts
Keith Waters, Ph.D.
Assistant Director, Center for Regional Analysis and Stephen S. Fuller Insitute
Schar School of Policy and Government
George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia
kwaters2@gmu.edu
Dr. Waters is the Assistant Director of the Center for Regional Analysis and the Stephen S. Fuller Institute at George Mason University (GMU). His applied researcher in this role centers topics relevant to the Washington region such as the labor market, housing, and infrastructure issues. His academic work examines economies from a complexity perspective, most recently examining regional economies with network analysis. Dr. Waters earned his Ph.D. in Public Policy at GMU after receiving his master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and his bachelor’s from Western Michigan University. Before returning to GMU, he completed post-doctoral work at Indiana University and Arizona State University.
Areas of Research: Economic Development, Economic Policy, Quantitative Methods, Regional Development, Transportation Policy, Regional Economic Performance, Economic Forecasting, Economic and Fiscal Impacts
Laurie A. Schintler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director of Data and Technology Research Initiatives, Center for Regional Analysis, Schar School of Policy and Government
George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia
lschintl@gmu.edu
Dr. Laurie A. Schintler is an Associate Professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, where she also serves as Director of the Transportation, Policy, Operations, and Logistics (TPOL) master’s degree program. Dr. Schintler received her Ph.D. degree in Regional and Urban Planning in 1996 from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Her primary areas of expertise and research focus include big data, emerging technologies, transportation, critical infrastructure, and quantitative methods. In these areas she has numerous peer-reviewed publications, reports, and conference proceedings, and co-edited volumes, including Big Data for Regional Science (Routledge) and the Encyclopedia of Big Data (Springer-Nature, forthcoming 2017-19). Dr. Schintler has been a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on various grants and contracts (US Department of Transportation, US National Park Service, US Department of Homeland Security, National Institutes of Health, among others). She is Area Editor for Journal of Networks and Spatial Economics, Associate Editor for Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, and a Councilor-at-Large for the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) (2017-19). Dr. Schintler is a founding member of the Regional Science Academy (tRSA), co-founder of the geospatial intelligence company FortiusOne (GeoIQ) (acquired by ESRI), and a holder of a US Patent.
Areas of Research: Gender; Quantitative Methods; Regional Development; Science and Technology Policy; Transportation Policy; Social Media; “Big Data”; Information Technology