Leadership

Jim Murdoch, PhD, Director
Dr. Murdoch is a professor of Economics and Public Policy in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the J. McDonald Williams Institute.  His research is now focused in urban economics and concerns the application of spatial analysis, spatial econometrics, and economic theory to local economic growth and development. 

Nathan Berg, PhD, Director of Science
Dr. Berg is Director of Science at the Williams Institute's Center for Urban Economics and Associate Professor of economics in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences (EPPS) at University of Texas-Dallas. He has published numerous articles, was a Fulbright Scholar in 2003, and his research has been cited in Business Week, Canada's National Post,  The Village Voice, The Advocate, and Atlantic Monthly.  For more information, please visit http://utdallas.edu/~nberg/.

Timothy Bray, PhD, Director, J. McDonald Williams Institute
Dr. Bray's fields of expertise include quantitative methods, policing, social context of community, geographic information sciences, and criminology, and holds a doctorate in criminology and criminal justice.  He was instrumental in the Institute's launch of the Wholeness Index, a comprehensive index of disparities in quality of life that taps 12 key dimensions of social dislocation.  He also serves on the faculty of the University of Texas at Dallas. 

Staff

Kimberly Jones, Public Policy Research Assistant
Stanley Gordon, Analyst
Tammy Leonard, Economics Research Assistant
Judy Mays, GIS Research Assistant

Affiliated Researchers 

Margaret O'Brien Caughy, Sc.D.
Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences
University of Texas School of Public Health Dallas Regional Campus

Wenhua Di, Ph.D.
Economist, Community Affairs
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Kurt Beron, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences
University of Texas at Dallas 

Catherine Coleman Eckel, Ph.D
Director, Center for Behavioral and Experimental Economic Science
University of Texas at Dallas

Rachel Croson
Director, The Negotiations Center
University of Texas at Dallas

Roxanne Ezzet-Lofstrom
Assistant Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences
University of Texas at Dallas 

Magnus Lofstrom
Assistant Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences
University of Texas at Dallas

Chetan Dave
Assistant Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences
University of Texas at Dallas

Susan McElroy
Associate Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences
University of Texas at Dallas

Daniel Oney, Ph.D
Research and Information Manager
Office of Economic Development
City of Dallas