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Robert D. Ebel
Professor, UH-Manoa Economics, 1969 - 1974
Robert D. Ebel is Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Chief Economist for the Washington, D.C., government. He is also a member of the Panel of Experts of the Fiscal Affairs Division of the International Monetary Fund and member of the Steering Committee of the Local Government and Public Sector Service Initiative (Open Society Institute/Budapest). Prior to joining the District of Columbia government, he was a Senior Fellow at the joint Urban Institute/Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center (TPC), Lead Economist for the World Bank Institute's Capacity Building programs on Public Finance, Intergovernmental Relations and Local Financial Management, Director of Public Finance Research for the United States Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR), director/author of tax studies for several US states (Minnesota, Nevada, Hawai'i, and South Carolina) and a tenured member of the Department of Economics of the University of Hawai'i. During his tenure with the World Bank, he served as the World Bank's technical representative to the Sudan Peace Consultations (2002-2004), and, for the African Union, technical resource person at the Inter-Sudanese Peace Consultations on Darfur. At the World Bank he directed, managed, and wrote technical reports on intergovernmental fiscal relations for a wide range of countries, including Hungary, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Palestine (West Bank-Gaza Strip), Nepal, and Yemen. Dr. Ebel has also served as the Chairperson of the ad hoc District of Columbia Tax Revision Commission (1997-98), and Executive Director of the National Tax Association (1995-2000). He has published widely in scholarly journals as well as having been a regular columnist for two major US newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser (with James Mak) and the St. Paul Pioneer Press/Dispatch. He is the recipient of the Steven D. Gold Award (jointly by the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management of the National Conference of State Legislatures, and the National Tax Association) and, as a member of the West Bank/Gaza team, the World Bank President's Award for Excellence.
Robert D. Ebel
Washington, D.C.
March 2007
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