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Robert H. WilsonMike Hogg Professor in Urban Policy Office: SRH 3.213 Mailing address: |
Robert H. Wilson is the Mike Hogg Professor in Urban Policy in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches in areas of local and state economic development policy, urban policy and econometrics. His research activities are in the areas of local and state development strategies, community participation in state and local policymaking, telecommunications/technology and regional development, and public policy in Brazil.
He was Assistant Dean at the LBJ School from 1980 through 1983, served as the Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy (1991-1994), as Director of the Urban Issues Program (1995-2003), as Director of the Brazil Center (2000-2002) and currently is Deputy Director, of the Policy Research Institute. Before coming to the LBJ School, he taught at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil. He held the Philips International Visiting Chair at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1999 and the Fulbright/FLAD Chair in Knowledge Management Policies, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa in 2000. He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Wilson was inducted into the National Order of the Southern Cross by decree of the President of Brazil (2002).
Wilson has served as a principal researcher on projects and grants from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Ford Foundation, National Science Foundation, Congressional Research Service, Fund for Innovation in Post-Secondary Education, Fulbright Commission, Southwestern Bell Telephone, Texas Telephone Association, and theTomas Rivera Center. He has served on projects or consulted for the Economic Research Service of USDA, United Nations Development Program, Organization of American States, Urban Institute, National Research Council, Texas Legislative Education Board, and Texas Historical Commission.