Christopher Berry
William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, University of Chicago
Christopher R. Berry is the William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy Director the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, at the University of Chicago. He was the inaugural director of the Center for Municipal Finance and is a current faculty affiliate. Professor Berry is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Berry’s research interests include American politics, metropolitan governance, municipal finance, and intergovernmental fiscal relations. He is the author of Imperfect Union: Representation and Taxation in Multilevel Governments, winner of the Best Book Award in Urban Politics from the American Political Science Association, Theory and Credibility (with Scott Ashworth and Ethan Bueno de Mesquita), and many other scholarly publications.
Professor Berry’s research has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and many other outlets. To learn more about his research on property tax fairness, visit www.propertytaxproject.uchicago.edu.