John E. Anderson

Dr. John Anderson is the Baird Family Professor of Economics at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. He is also the Executive Director of the Central Plains Research Data Center (CPRDC), part of the federal statistical research data network, located at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Economics at Western Michigan University and his Ph.D. in Economics at Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Anderson is an economist and an advisor to public policymakers in the field of public finance, fiscal reform, and tax policy.

His academic research and policy advising has been published in more than one hundred journal articles, books, book chapters, and government reports. The second edition of his textbook, Public Finance: Theory and Policy, used by students around the world, was published by Cengage Learning in 2012. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Departments of State, Transportation, and Agriculture.

Dr. Anderson served as a senior economist with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, DC, in 2005-06. He has also advised state governors and legislatures, and numerous state agencies in the United States. He is a Distinguished Scholar at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, conducting research on property taxation.

Internationally, Dr. Anderson has served as a technical advisor on USAID fiscal reform projects and local government reform projects in Moldova, Montenegro, and Macedonia. He has taught and provided educational reform and curriculum advising to universities in Bulgaria, China, Russia, Mongolia, Taiwan, and Tajikistan.