• Richard G. Little, AICP, Director
• Louise Nelson Dyble, Ph.D., Associate Director for Research
• Deirdre Flanagan, Coordinator of Special Projects and Events
  
  

Richard G. Little, AICP, Director
Richard G. Little is Director of the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy at the University of Southern California where he manages a program of research and dissemination activities aimed at informing the discussion of infrastructure issues critical to California and the nation. Prior to joining USC he was Director of the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment of the National Research Council (NRC) where he developed and directed studies in building and infrastructure research. He has conducted numerous studies dealing with life-cycle management and financing of infrastructure, project management, and hazard preparedness and mitigation and has published extensively on risk management and decision-making for physical security and critical infrastructure protection.

Little is Editor of Public Works Management & Policy and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities and the International Journal of Emergency Management and is a book reviewer for the Journal of Urban Technology. He is an adjunct faculty member at USC and James Madison University and a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Infrastructure and Information Assurance at JMU. He has been certified by examination by the American Institute of Certified Planners and is a member of the American Planning Association and the Society for Risk Analysis.

He has over thirty-five years experience in planning, management, and policy development relating to infrastructure and public facilities including fifteen years with the Office of Comprehensive Planning in Fairfax County, Virginia where he served as Director of the Planning Division. Little received a B.S. in Geology and an M.S. in Urban-Environmental Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Louise Nelson Dyble, Ph.D., Associate Director for Research
Louise Nelson Dyble oversees research and outreach activities and facilitates communication between academics, practitioners, and policy makers. She also brings a historical perspective to California infrastructure through ongoing research into the institutional development of local and regional government. Dyble was recruited by UC Berkeley to play basketball, graduated magna cum laude, and stayed on at Berkeley to pursue a PhD in History. Her dissertation, "Paying the Toll: A Political History of the Golden Gate Bridge, 1923-1971" won the 2004 Award of the Urban History Association for Best Dissertation in Urban History.

Dyble spent two years as a fellow in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley, investigating land use policy in Northern California as part of a collaborative project funded by the National Research Initiative. She was appointed as the Kevin Starr Fellow in California Studies in 2005 and as the Weisman Postdoctoral Fellow in American History at the California Institute of Technology in 2006.  She serves on the Board of Directors of the Urban History Association and is the Chair of the California Studies Association.

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Deirdre Flanagan, Coordinator of Special Projects and Events
The Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy
University of Southern California
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