Stephanie Leiser
Stephanie Leiser is a lecturer at the Ford School and Director of the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP). Her general areas of interest are public budgeting, finance, and local government management, and she has particular expertise in state and local tax policy, business taxation and incentives, and local government fiscal health. Stephanie has taught courses in public budgeting and financial management, tax policy, nonprofit financial management, and microeconomics. She is a two-time alum of the University of Michigan (BA Economics '04, Ford School MPP '05) as well as the University of Washington Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance (PhD '14), and she has also worked as a tax policy analyst for the Michigan legislature.
Educational background
- PhD in public policy and management, University of Washington
- MPP, University of Michigan
Current research
- Public and Non-profit Management
- Economics and finance
- Budget
- Tax
