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David L. Sjoquist is Professor of Economics, and Founding Holder of
the Dan E. Sweat Distinguished Chair in Educational and Community
Policy.
Dr. Sjoquist is a specialist in the field of public finance,
particularly state and local public finance, and has an extensive
research interests in urban economics, especially local economic
development and central city poverty. He has 45 plus years of experience
in higher education and has published over 100 academic papers on topics
such as regression analysis, analysis of public policies, teenage
employment, computer modeling of local governments, capital maintenance
expenditures, state economic development programs, local government
fiscal conditions, and the urban underclass. He has also authored or
edited 6 books and produced over 135 reports.
Dr. Sjoquist received his B.A. degree in economics from the University
of St. Thomas (formerly College of St. Thomas) in St. Paul, Minnesota.
He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of
Minnesota. Dr. Sjoquist is a member of the American Economic
Association, the Southern Economic Association, and the National Tax
Association, of which is a past member of the Board of Directors, and
serves on the Board of Editors of the National Tax Journal. He received
the Georgia State University Alumni Distinguished Professor Award in
1999.
Dr. Sjoquist was named an Outstanding Young Man in America in 1979 and
is an alumnus of Leadership Atlanta and the Regional Leadership
Institute. Dr. Sjoquist has served as Executive Director of Research
Atlanta and Executive Director of the Urban Study Institute. He has been
active in many local civic organizations, serving on the boards of
Interfaith, Inc., Research Atlanta (President), Atlanta Economics Club
(Treasurer), Urban Land Institute-Atlanta District (Executive
Committee), Atlanta Urban League, Kids Voting Georgia, Grady High School
PTA (President), Neighborhood Planning Unit F (Chair), and the
Morningside-Lenox Park Association (President). He chaired the MARTA
Blue Ribbon Panel, which studied the long-term financing of MARTA, was
co-chair of the Georgia Electronic Commerce Association - Tax Policy
Group and was a member of Governor Perdue's New Georgia Commission's
task force on public finance. He served on the Board of the Atlanta
Regional Commission, which is the official planning agency of the
Atlanta region, from 2002 to 2011, and was a member of the 2010 Special
Council on Tax Reform and Fairness for Georgians. He served as the
director of the Andrew Young School's Fiscal Research Center from 1997
to September 2011.
Dr. Sjoquist is married and has one adult married daughter and one
grandchild.
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