Justin Marlowe is a Research Professor at the University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy. He also serves as Associate Director of the Harris School's Center for Municipal Finance, and is a Fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration and the Center for Digital Government. He is author/editor of five books, including Public Debt Management: Strategy and Evidence (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press), is columnist for Government Finance Review, and has served on technical advisory bodies for the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, GFOA, the California State Auditor, and the National Academies of Science, among others. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a B.S. and MPA from Northern Michigan University. Prior to academia he worked in local government in Michigan.