Senior policy advisor at RTI

Ronald Johnson, PhD, is senior policy advisor for international development at RTI. He is an internationally recognized expert in governance strategies to stabilize post-conflict situations, urban infrastructure financing, and municipal finance decentralization policy and strategies. Dr. Johnson has designed financing systems and led institutional development efforts for municipal services financing mechanisms in Indonesia, Mexico, and Poland. In addition, he has analyzed financing systems and conducted local government finance studies in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Dr. Johnson has designed and implemented decentralization and local finance and management projects for the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. He has advised on issues on decentralization policy, revenue improvement, capital budgeting, municipal service performance improvement, and financial information systems for small municipalities and major cities of the world. Dr. Johnson is co-author of Public Budgeting Systems, now in its 8th edition, and author of numerous articles on decentralization, governance, and finance.