Advisers

	Dall W. Forsythe, Chair Dall W. Forsythe teaches governmental and nonprofit financial management at the Wagner School of Public Service, New York University. He has extensive management experience in the governmental, private and not-for-profit sectors. In government, he served as budget director for the State of New York and for the New York City Board of Education. In the private sector, he worked as a managing director in Lehman Brothers’ public finance department. In the nonprofit sector, Forsythe served as chief administrative officer of the Episcopal Diocese of New York for four years. He is author of two books, including Memos to the Governor: An Introduction to State Budgeting (Georgetown University Press, 2004).
	Steve Aos Steve Aos is the Associate Director of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy, the non-partisan research arm of the Washington State legislature. He has 34 years of experience in conducting cost-benefit analyses and in communicating the results to policy makers in a wide range of public policy areas, as well as in the private sector. His current work focuses on identifying and evaluating the costs and benefits of programs and policies that reduce crime, improve K-12 educational outcomes, reduce child abuse and neglect, improve mental health, and reduce substance abuse and tobacco use. He also has many years of experience in energy economics and regulatory policy.
	Mark H. Bergstrom Mark H. Bergstrom has been the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing since 1998. In addition to providing the overall management of the Commission, he also serves as the Commission’s liaison with the General Assembly, the Administrative Office of the Pennsylvania Courts, the Governor’s Office, other state and local agencies, and with the various administrative units of The Pennsylvania State University, where the Commission is based. In his prior positions with the Commission, he was responsible for incorporating intermediate punishments into the sentencing guidelines, conducting training seminars on sentencing-related issues, and assisting counties with the development and implementation of intermediate punishment plans and programs.
	Mark A. Cohen Mark A. Cohen is the Vice President for Research at Resources for the Future and Professor of Management and Law at Vanderbilt University. Previously, he served as a staff economist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Sentencing Commission. He is often called upon by government and research organizations to serve in advisory roles providing his expertise on the economics of crime and the cost of crime to society. He served for two terms as Chairman of the American Statistical Association’s Committee on Law and Justice. He was received several research grants from the National Institute of Justice to assess the costs and impact of crime on society. He has lectured around the world on the cost of crime, including consultations and invited talks with governmental organizations in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Netherlands, Poland, Finland, and elsewhere in the EU.
	Philip J. Cook Philip J. Cook is the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty of the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University. He has served in a variety of capacities with the National Academy of Sciences, including membership on expert panels dealing with alcohol-abuse prevention, violence, school shootings and underage drinking. He is the author of Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control, (Princeton University Press, 2007) and the coauthor of Gun Violence: The Real Costs (Oxford University Press, 2000), which uses economic theory to develop and apply a framework for assessing costs. Among his current projects is an evaluation of a randomized field trial for reducing recidivism among released prisoners in Milwaukee.
	Jens Ludwig Jens Ludwig is Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy at the University of Chicago, a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and co-director of the NBER’s working group on the Economics of Crime. He conducts empirical research in law and economics and social policy, with a focus on urban poverty, education, crime, and housing. He is the co-author with Duke University professor Philip J. Cook of the book Gun Violence: The Real Costs (Oxford University Press 2000) and co-editor with Cook of Evaluating Gun Policy (Brookings Institution Press 2003). Before coming to the University of Chicago, he was Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University. In 2006, he received the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management’s David N. Kershaw Prize for distinguished contributions to public policy by the age of 40.