Research Fellows

Dr. Sam L. Savage has been instrumental in helping GFOA bring risk-aware, probabilistic thinking to public finance.  Based on Dr. Savage’s work, GFOA has helped many cities better take account of risk when determining their optimal financial reserve levels. Dr. Savage has supported many other initiatives to help GFOA bring a new and better perspective to the risks that face public finance officers.

Former US Congressman Ben McAdams has been integral in helping GFOA launch the Putting Assets to Work incubator, a first-of-its-kind program to help local governments, first, recognize all of the physical assets it has at its disposal and, second, put those assets to work generating new, ongoing revenues for local government without giving up public ownership and control.