Robert H Wilson


Robert H Wilson
Professor; Mike Hogg Professor in Urban Policy, Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts

Email: rwilson@utexas.edu

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Robert H. Wilson is Mike Hogg Professor of 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 in developing countries, and econometrics. His research activities are in the areas of local and state development strategies, community participation in state and local policymaking, telecommunications and 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 from 1991 through 1994, and currently is Deputy Director. Before coming to the LBJ School, he taught at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil. He has served as a principal researcher on projects and grants from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Ford Foundation, National Science Foundation, Fulbright Commission, Southwestern Bell Telephone, Texas Telephone Association, and Toms Rivera Center. He has also 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.

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Daniel Oppenheimer (primary)
512-475-9712
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Lauren Macknight (primary)
512-232-6504
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