Senior Leadership
Paul Benson
Interim Director, Public Finance Research Cluster (FRC, CSLF, ICePP)
Paul focuses on the operations and management of research and training for the three collaborative centers in the Public Finance Research Cluster: the International Center for Public Policy (ICePP), the Center for State and Local Finance (CSLF) and the Fiscal Research Center (FRC).
His experience includes over 20 years in various roles at ICePP. He is an operations and management professional with experience overseeing a wide spectrum of multimillion-dollar economic technical assistance and training projects in developing countries spanning six regions (Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean Islands and the Commonwealth of Independent States). Clients include the Asian Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Bank and various foreign governments.
Nicholas Warner
Senior Research Associate, Fiscal Research Center
Nick serves as a senior research associate at the Fiscal Research Center (FRC) and the Center for State and Local Finance (CSLF).
He is FRC’s key contact for fiscal note analyses of proposed Georgia revenue legislation. In addition, Warner leads scientific data analyses and serves as the chief expert in education finance for the centers. He also leads statistical analysis and estimation of econometric models, proposes statistical methods and research models, and manages extensive administrative data sets. His work has been published in the Journal of Education Finance as well as by the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning. Warner received his master’s degree in economics from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.
