Dr. Kingsley E. Haynes is University Professor and Dean of the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia. He holds his Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Haynes was the director of McGill’s Urban Studies Center, Texas’ Joint Center for West Texas Environmental Studies and Indiana University’s Regional Economic Development Institute.

Dr. Haynes worked overseas on air transport projects in Brazil, regional development programming in Malaysia, water resource and environmental management projects for the Ford Foundation in Egypt, Sudan, and Jordan, and investment evaluation programs in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. In North America he has worked on coastal zone management projects in Texas and Indiana, environment and energy projects in the Yellowstone and Ohio River Basins, and transportation projects in the U.S. Northeast Corridor; Quebec and at the National Center for Intelligent Transport Systems.