Frank Shafroth

Director, Center for State and Local Government Leadership

Frank Shafroth is the Director of the Center for State & Local leadership at George Mason University; he is an adjunct in the graduate School of Public Policy at George Washington University; he has previously served as Assistant Counsel to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, where he focused on state and local municipal housing and development finance—as well as Director of Policy & Federal Relations for the National League of Cities, the National Governors Association, and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. He is the author of in-depth studies on municipal bankruptcy, and writes an eBlog focused on municipal finance. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the Georgetown Law Center.