John C. Austin, President

D-Ann Arbor, Term Expires 1/1/2017 .

Mr. Austin was elected in 2000 and re-elected in 2008.  He is Director of the Michigan Economic Center at Prima Civitas Foundation. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution where he directed the Great Lakes Economic Initiative. He previously held the position of Executive Director of the New Economy Initiative for Southeast Michigan.  He served as policy director for the Lieutenant Governor's Commission on Higher Education and Economic Growth.  He is also a Lecturer at the University of Michigan.  Mr. Austin holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College in Economics and Political Science.

jcaustin@umich.edu