Dr. Howell is the Director of the Center on Technology, Data, and Society, an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management in the School of Public Affairs at ASU, and Editor for Geographic Methods at the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. He is an affiliate faculty member in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and a senior sustainability scientist in the School of Global Futures. Prior to ASU, Dr. Howell served as an Associate Professor in the School of Economics at Peking University, China's flagship university. He previously held several visiting positions as a Fulbright scholar at the Lincoln Institute of Urban Development and Land Policy in Beijing, a Science & Technology policy fellow at the National Academies of Sciences in Washington D.C., and a research fellow at the Asian Development Bank in Manila.