DOWALL, DAVID E.

Professor, City & Regional Planning

Director, Institute of Urban & Regional Development

College of Environmental Design
University of California, Berkeley

David E. Dowall is Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) and a Professor of City and Regional Planning. He is a leading expert on urban economics and infrastructure policy and frequently consults for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has served as a policy advisor to local and central governments and businesses in over 40 countries.

While at IURD he has hosted a year-long colloquium on California’s future, called “California at 50 Million,” and he has given testimony to the governor and legislators on the state’s infrastructure needs.

Dowall chaired the UC Berkeley Academic Senate from 2001-2002, working on the University’s Strategic Academic Plan. He has been a visiting fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, where with UC Berkeley graduate student Jan Whittington he co-authored “Making Room for the Future: Rebuilding California’s Infrastructure,” a study on the demands facing California’s infrastructure during the next two decades.

Dowall’s books include The Suburban Squeeze, The Land Market Assessment, and The Warsaw Economy in Transition. He holds a B.S. in economics from the University of Maryland, and an M.A. in regional planning and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Colorado.