Lee Munnich
Lee Munnich, senior fellow, directs the State and Local Policy Program. He focuses on transportation policy, regional economic development, quality strategies for government, and state-local fiscal policy. Munnich has more than twenty-three years of experience with state and local governments. He was a deputy commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Trade and Economic Development, research director for the Minnesota Business Partnership, economic consultant for the Minnesota House of Representatives, manager of Midwest Research Institute's Center of Economic Studies, and executive director of the Minnesota Tax Study Commission. He was elected to the Minneapolis City Council in 1973 and 1975.
Munnich founded and chaired the Minnesota Economic Resource Group in 1985, developed and managed the annual Economic Report to the Governor of Minnesota through 1991, and chaired the National Association of State Development Agencies' research division from 1986 to 1990.
Munnich received a bachelor's degree in economics from Georgetown University in 1967 and has done postgraduate work in economics and computer science at the University of Minnesota.
A weblog produced by the State and Local Policy Program and the Regional Planning and Policy area at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Afairs
Newsfeed
Categories
- About Our Blog
- Mileage-based User Fees
- Regional Planning and Policy
- State and Local Policy Program
- Bicycling Facilities Research
- Congestion pricing
- Economic development
- Economic Competitiveness
- Industry Cluster Studies
- Rural Knowledge Clusters
- Mileage-based User Fees
- Rural Safety
- Telecommunications and Information Society
- Telework - Telecommuting
- Transportation and Planning Technologies
- Topics