William Bartley Hildreth is professor emeritus in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University (2009-2021) with a focus on state and local finance and municipal securities. He received a B.A. from the University of Alabama (1971), an MPA from Auburn University at Montgomery (1974), and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia (1979). He held tenure in the business schools of Kent State University (1979-1985), Louisiana State University (1985-1994), and Wichita State University as the Regents Distinguished Professor (1994-2009) before joining GSU’s policy school. He was director of finance of Akron, Ohio (1984-1985), Executive Director of the National Tax Association (2015-2016), a public member of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (2012-2015), and editor of the Municipal Finance Journal (1989-2023). He is a NAPA fellow (2005), was the Woodrow Wilson International Center’s municipal securities academic expert to China (2002) and received the 2017 Industry Award from the National Federation of Municipal Analysts, ABFM’s Posner Award (2023) and a Fulbright (2005). In addition to numerous articles, his books include the Public Budgeting Laboratory (1996), the Handbook on Taxation (1999), and Budgeting: Politics and Power (2011).