Marilyn Rubin

Marilyn is currently a Distinguished Research Fellow at the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers University where she is also an affiliated faculty member of the University’s Law School Center for Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME). Prior to arriving at Rutgers, Marilyn was a professor of public administration and policy at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York (CUNY) for 31 years, serving 25 years as the Director of the MPA Program. She has also been a Visiting Professor to universities in Nanchang, China; Xiamen, China;Bogota, Columbia;and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and has been a Fulbright Senior Specialist since 2010.

Throughout her long academic career, Marilyn also been a partner in Urbanomics, a consultancy group that began in 1984 to provide governments and businesses with research and support regarding economics, public finance, and urban planning. At Urbanomics, she has been the principal investigator and primary author of over 20 commissioned reports regarding state and local tax policy and urban economic development. Prior to her partnership in Urbanomics, she was a consultant for eight years to New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and to the Deputy Director of the City’s Office of Management and Budget.

Marilyn has been a member of economic advisory boards to elected officials in the U.S. federal, state, and local levels of government. She is a former Chair of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM) of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA). She holds a BA in Economics from Rutgers University, a MA in Economics from New York University and a PhD in Public Administration from the Wagner School of Public Service. She has been a NAPA Fellow since 2005 and is a member of the Academy’s Executive Council.