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John Kirlin has over three decades experience analyzing policies, administration and financing directed at complex public problems, especially in California. His areas of deepest policy expertise include state-local fiscal relationships, land use, and environmental and species protection policies. He has also successfully served in administrative capacities, most recently turning around a failing university research center.
He has served as a consultant to local government associations on matters related to state-local fiscal affairs and other policies and to California state agencies on matters ranging from species protection, to oversight of local government debt and the interface of energy and environmental policies. He has also served as a consultant to financial institutions on municipal debt markets. He served as a consultant to civic organizations seeking to improve regional governance in Southern California. Through the National Academy of Public Administration, of which he is an elected fellow, he has served as an advisor on environmental policy to the United States Congress and to the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Kirlin has been retained as an expert witness by local governments, by corporations and private interests (e.g., ExxonMobil), and by the State of California.
He held a faculty position at the University of Southern California for nearly thirty years and then served as a faculty member at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis for five years. As a professor, he authored, coauthored or edited several books and nearly a hundred articles, on topics ranging from broad administrative theory through fiscal limits to municipal services. He was founding editor of the annual volume, California Policy Choices (1984-95). | 