Roy W. Bahl, Jr. is Regents Professor and founding dean emeritus of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and is known for his work on fiscal decentralization around the world. His B.A. is from Greenville College (1961) and his M.A. (1963) and Ph.D. (1965) in economics are both from the University of Kentucky. He taught at the University of West Virginia (1965-1967), was a state and local finance economist at the IMF (1968-1971), and then director of the Metropolitan Studies Program and Maxwell Professor of Political Economy at Syracuse University (1971-1988) before joining GSU (1988). His fiscal decentralization fieldwork has received support from the IMF, the Asian Development Bank, the UN, the World Bank, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He headed tax reform groups in Georgia (1994) and Ohio (1994), and in Jamaica and Guatemala. In New York, he advised the mayor and governor on NYC’s fiscal outlook and helped Standard & Poor’s develop its state and local rating system. His numerous articles and books include the influential Financing State and Local Government in the 1980s (1984) and Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries (1992). He was President (1985) of the National Tax Association and received its 2005 Holland Medal. He was the first to receive both the ABFM Howard and Wildavsky Awards.