Dr. Howell is the Director of the Center on Technology, Data, and Society and an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management in the School of Public Affairs at ASU. 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 of Applied Microeconomics in the School of Economics at Peking University, China's flagship university. He also previously held several visiting positions as a Fulbright scholar at the Lincoln Institute of Urban Development and Land Policy (Beijing), a Science & Technology policy fellow at the National Academies of Sciences (Washington D.C.), and a research fellow at the Asian Development Bank (Manila). Dr. Howell holds a PhD in Geography (UCLA), M.S. degrees in Statistics (UCLA) and GIScience (MSU), and B.A degrees in Political Science, International Development, and Chinese Language and Culture (MSU).

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