Gabriella Carolini

Rutgers University - The Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
http://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/carolini/

Title/Position:

Assistant Professor, International and Regional Development

Bio/Research Summary:

Gabriella’s research is on the impact of current fiscal policies and public sector accounting practices on social investments, notably on slum upgrading and affordable housing. Gabriella uses Brazil for empirical evidence, though her wider work is also informed by South Africa, Kenya, Argentina, India, Sweden, and of course, the United States. She served as an advisor and project director of a summit on urban development innovations for the Rockefeller Foundation and the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at the Earth Institute, a senior associate to the UN Millennium Project’s Task Force on slums (for whose final report she was a lead author), and a political-economic and financial consultant for firms in the UK and New York. She earned a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Columbia, a Masters degree in Development Studies from Oxford, and graduated from Columbia with a PhD in urban planning.