Benoy Jacob

About

Benoy’s work has been featured in the Urban Affairs Review, the National Tax Journal, and Public Administration Review. His research has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, ASPA’s Center for Accountability and Performance, and he also served as Research Fellow for the ICMA.

Benoy earned his PhD in Public Administration in 2008 from the University of Illinois – Chicago. While completing his PhD, he worked as a Summer Associate at RAND and was also awarded a Lincoln Institute of Land Policy dissertation fellowship. Benoy has also worked as a land-use planner for Rockland County, New York, and as a development consultant for Ferrandino & Associates, a small consulting firm in the New York Metropolitan Area.

Before joining UNLV in the fall of 2016, Benoy served as an assistant professor at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado, Denver where he was also the Director of the Local Government Center at the University of Colorado, and their Certified Public Management Program. Prior to that, Benoy was an assistant professor at the School of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University.

Education

• Ph.D., Public Administration, University of Illinois – Chicago