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Scott Fosler is Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, and Roger C. Lipitz Senior Fellow in the School’s Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise. He worked for 18 years with the Committee for Economic Development (CED), a national public policy research organization comprised of 200 corporate CEOs and university presidents. As vice president and director of government studies, Fosler headed CED’s work in state and local economic development, workforce competitiveness, labor relations, public-private partnership, demography, and public management. Before joining CED, he was a senior staff member of the U. S. National Commission on Productivity, and of the Institute of Public Administration of New York. In the 1990s, Fosler was president of the National Academy of Public Administration, a nonpartisan organization chartered by the federal government to advise Congress and the federal executive branch on how to improve the structure, management, and performance of the American system of governance. There he supervised an extensive program of research and consulting for federal, state, and local government and their interactions with the private, nonprofit, and civic sectors. Fosler was elected to two terms on the County Council of Montgomery County, Maryland, where he also served as council president. During his tenure on the County Council, he was elected president of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), and chaired the National Association of Counties (NACO) Steering Committee on Intergovernmental Relations. He was previously elected to the municipal Town Council of the Town of Chevy Chase, MD, where he served as chair, and chaired the Maryland Municipal League Committee on the Functions of Municipal Government. He has served on several county executive and gubernatorial transition teams, including the economic development transition team of Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer. Fosler is a board member of the Deschner Corporation and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. He formerly served as chair of the National Civic League, vice chair of the Montgomery County, Maryland, Working Group on the Agricultural Reserve, and a board member of the Alliance for Regional Stewardship. He has been a consultant to governments, businesses, nonprofit organizations, foundations and international institutions in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Fosler’s publications include Local Economic Development: Strategies for a Changing Economy, The New Economic Role of American States, The Business Role in State Education Reform, Public-Private Partnership in American Cities, Demographic Change and the American Future, Working Better Together: Achieving Public Purposes through Cross-Sector Collaboration; book chapters on "Human Capital Investment and Federalism," "State Strategies for Business Assistance," "Revitalizing State-Local Economies"; and journal articles on "State Economic Development: The Emerging Paradigm," "State Economic Policy: An Assessment," "State Economic Development Strategies," "The Future Economic Role of Local Government," and "State and Local Government Productivity and the Private Sector." Fosler holds a B.A. from Dickinson College (Phi Beta Kappa) and an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. |
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