David M. Betson
David M. Betson is an associate professor of public policy and economics at the University of Notre Dame. He will be joining the Income and Benefits Policy Center as a visiting scholar, working on child nutrition and poverty issues.
Dr. Betson, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, coauthored Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program: Final Report and Measuring Poverty: A New Approach, both published by the National Academy of Sciences. He also serves on the Academy's panel on school nutrition programs.
Arkaprava Deb
Arkaprava Deb will be joining the Health Policy Center as a visiting fellow for the 2010-2011 academic year. He holds an M.D. from the NYU School of Medicine and a Masters in Public Administration from New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He is a preventive medicine resident at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and an intern at Bassett Healthcare.
Dr. Deb previously worked for the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance—Majority Health Team, the NYC Office of Citywide Health Insurance Access, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Brian Galle
Brian Galle will be joining the Tax Policy Center as a visiting fellow. His primary research interests include federal income taxation, behavioral law and economics, tax policy, corporate tax, nonprofits, federalism and public finance, and state and local taxation.
Galle is an assistant professor at Boston College Law School. He previously taught at the Florida State University College of Law and worked as an attorney in the Criminal Appeals and Tax Enforcement Policy Section of the Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice. Before that, he clerked for the Hon. Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Hon. Stephen M. Orlofsky of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
William T. Gormley
William T. Gormley served as interim dean at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and is the codirector of the Center for Research on Children in the United States. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a leading expert in government reform, public management, childcare, and education.
Dr. Gormley is the author of nine books and is planning a new book on children, preschool, and pre-K. As a visiting fellow at Urban Institute, he will be developing joint projects with the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population.
Calvin Johnson
Calvin Johnson is the Andrews & Kurth Centennial Professor at the University of Texas School of Law, where he has been teaching since 1981. Before joining the UT Law faculty, Johnson worked as a tax attorney in New York and in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He earned his J.D. at Stanford Law School.
Johnson has served as chairman of the American Bar Association Tax Section Committee on Tax Structure and Simplification; chairman of the American Association of Law School, Tax Section; and as a member of the Academic Advisers to the U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Taxation. He will be a visiting fellow in the Tax Policy Center in 2011.
Stephen Wandner
Stephen Wandner, formerly a senior economist at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), is an expert in employment policy. He has directed DOL research on unemployment insurance, dislocated worker employment services, and job training programs.
Dr. Wandner earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Indiana University. His latest book Solving the Reemployment Puzzle: From Research to Policy (forthcoming) is about the effect of workforce research on public policy. He will be joining the Center of Labor, Human Services, and Population as a visiting fellow for the 2010-11 academic year.
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