Michael A. Pagano is dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago, director of UIC's Government Finance Research Center, a professor of public administration, an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, former co-editor of Urban Affairs Review and a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution.
Pagano has published more than 100 articles on government finance, capital budgeting, federalism, infrastructure and urban development as well as nine books, including Metropolitan Resilience in a Time of Economic Turmoil, Cityscapes and Capital and The Dynamics of Federalism.
