Dr. Craig Maher

Dr. Maher recently co-authored the book, Understanding Municipal Fiscal Health: A Model for Local Governments in the USA.

He is a Distinguished Professor and currently serves as Co-Editor of the Public Finance Journal. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in budgeting, finance, data analysis and cross-sector collaboration. He has numerous academic publications that tend to focus on state and local financial management. He has also completed projects for organizations such as Pew Charitable Trusts and Government Accounting Standards Board. In 2021, he won NASPAA’s Voinovich Innovation Challenge and in 2017 and 2013, Dr. Maher was recipient of article of the awards from the Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs and Association of Government Accountants, respectively. In 2011, Dr. Maher received the Alberta S. Kimball Endowed Professor award from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh for his research on municipal finance.

He has previously served as Director of a nonprofit “thinktank” and he was elected, and reelected to the Wauwatosa, WI City Council.