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an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

Ingrid Gould Ellen, an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, is the Co-Director of the Furman Center. Ingrid teaches Microeconomics, Urban Economics, Housing and Community Development Policy, the Doctoral Research Colloquium, and co-teaches the Colloquium on the Law, Economics and Politics of Urban Affairs. Ingrid received a B.A. in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1987, was the Herschel Smith Harvard Scholar in mathematics and science at Cambridge University (England) between 1988-89, received her M.P.P. from Harvard in 1991, then was awarded a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard in 1996. In her Ph.D. program, Ingrid received a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Dissertation Grant, a Senior Research Fellowship with the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, and a Fellowship with the Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy. Before joining the NYU Faculty, Ingrid served as Lurcy Research Fellow at The Brookings Institution, a Research Consultant for the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Improving U.S. Cities Through Metropolitan Area Governance, a Visiting Scholar at The Urban Institute, a Research Analyst for Abt Associates in the Housing and Labor Economics Area, and as a Policy Analyst for the NYC Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development.

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