Cathy Yang Liu is Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University and a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy. She also holds the Michael and Enid Mescon Endowed Chair and served as Department Chair from 2019 to 2025. At GSU, she is affiliated with the Center for State and Local Finance, W.J. Usery Workplace Research Group, and Urban Studies Institute.
Dr. Liu conducts research and publishes widely on community and economic development, urban policy, employment and labor markets, and migration and entrepreneurship in both U.S. and international contexts. Her work has been supported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Haynes Foundation, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the Kauffman Foundation, the Regional Studies Association, and the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Dr. Liu is active in several professional associations and currently serve as the newly elected Chair of the Governing Board for the Urban Affairs Association (UAA). From 2021-3, she served as the Entrepreneurship Policy Faculty Fellow for the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM). She currently serves as a Senior Associate Editor for Journal of Urban Affairs (journal of the Urban Affairs Association), an Associate Editor for Economic Development Quarterly, and an Associate Editor for Regional Studies, Regional Science (journal of the Regional Studies Association). She received my Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the Price School at the University of Southern California and Master of Public Policy from the Harris School at the University of Chicago.
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Dr. Cathy Yang Liu 