Education: BS, Civil Engineering, Worcester, Massachusetts 1965; PhD, Urban and Regional Planning, Cornell University 1970

Career: David Sawicki is a Professor, jointly appointed to the City and Regional Planning Program and the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was recently named a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and serves on the AICP-exam writing committee of AICP. He is a Past-President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. His specialities include methods of policy analysis and planning, demographic and economic analysis, and forecasting. David Sawicki came to Georgia Tech in 1983, bringing with him the newly emerging micro-computing and geographic information systems (GIS) technology. From 1993–2000 he served as Senior Advisor for Data and Policy Analysis in the Carter Presidential Center’s Atlanta Project. There he used the new GIS technologies to support the planning activities of the many non-profit organizations working with poor neighbourhoods in Atlanta. He is currently (2004–10) serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Planning Association (see url below).

Publications include: Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning (co-author); numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Old Arch Bldg 204, City Planning and Public Policy Georgia Tech , Atlanta, GA 30332-0155, USA; Tel: +1 404-894-0569; Fax: +1 404-894-1628; Email: david.sawicki@arch.gatech.edu ; Website: http://www.spp.gatech.edu/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01944363.asp/ .