Roger
R. Stough
Associate
Dean for Research, Development and External Relations
NOVA Endowed Chair and Professor of Public
Policy
Director, Mason Enterprise Center
Director, National Center for ITS Deployment
Research
e-mail: rstough@gmu.edu
phone: 703.993.2285
fax: 703.993.2284
George Mason School of Public
Policy
4400 University Drive, MS 3C6
Fairfax, VA 22030
Education
Ph.D., Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins
University
MA, Economic Geography, University of South
Carolina
BS, International Trade and Economics,
Ohio State University
Biography
Dr. Stough's educational background includes a BS in International
Trade and Economics from Ohio State University; an MA in Economic
Geography from the University of South Carolina; and a Ph.D. in
Geography and Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Stough has an extensive publication record, including several
hundred scholarly and professional publications, 12 books and nearly
100 journal articles. Dr. Stough also has a wide range of graduate
and undergraduate teaching experience, with over 30 years logged
in eight separate institutions (including Johns Hopkins University,
University of South Carolina, Indiana University, Leiden and Erasmus
Universities in the Netherlands, George Mason University). He has
extensive experience interfacing the University with the local,
state, regional, national communities and international groups.
He chairs a number of task forces, and advises a wide range of
external programs and university policy boards.
Dr. Stough is the principal investigator
on numerous grants and contracts totaling more than $50,000,000
from the U.S. Department
of Transportation, the Research and Special
Projects Administration (USDOT), the Federal Highway Administration,
the Federal Transit
Administration, the National Technology
Information Administration, NASA, U.S. Department of Justice,
Virginia’s Center for Innovative
Technology, the National Science Foundation,
and numerous state and local agencies. While the local National
Capital Region is
an empirical laboratory for much of his
research, he has extensive research and consulting experience
nationally and internationally.
He has participated in technology policy
seminars and university programs and published widely in Asia,
Europe and North America.
Further, he has established a diversity
of research, student and faculty research exchange programs with
universities and research
laboratories in Asia, Europe and Australia.
Finally, he founded and directed various degree programs (from
the undergraduate to
the Ph.D. level) and several research centers.
All of these programs and centers are still operating and have
continued to grow. He
edits two journals and his most recent
book with Robert Stimson and Brian Roberts is Regional Economic
Development: Analysis and
Planning Strategy, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg,
Germany and New York City, August 2002.
Areas of Expertise
Regional Economic Development Analysis
Policy, Transportation Analysis and Policy
Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic
Development