Edward W. Hill

Edward W. (Ned) Hill is Professor and Distinguished Scholar of Economic Development at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs of Cleveland State University. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Metropolitan Policy Program at The Brookings Institution, an independent public policy research organization in Washington, D.C. Hill edited Economic Development Quarterly from 1994 to 2005. Economic Development Quarterly is dedicated to publishing research on the development of the American economy.

Hill was awarded the title of Professor and Distinguished Scholar in the fall of 2001. He was elected to the board of Cleveland’s Westside Industrial Retention Network (WIRE-Net) in 2002, elected to the Board of Directors of the Urban Affairs Association where he was the secretary-treasurer in 2003 and 2004, appointed to the board of advisors of the Generation Foundation in 2001, the Council on Competitiveness’ Center for Regional Innovation Experts Group in 2003, the Board of the Ohio MEMs society in 2003, and he advises the Knight Foundation on economic development investments. Ohio’s Governor Bob Taft appointed Hill to the Urban Revitalization Task Force in the fall of 1999. He was a member of Leadership Cleveland’s Class of 1997 and a member of the board of the Cleveland Zoological Society. Hill and Harold Wolman were awarded the Robertson Prize from the editors of Urban Studies in 1994. Ned was awarded Cleveland State University’s Distinguished Faculty Award for Research in 1998 and merit award for research in 2002.

Hill is author of two books, co-editor of five books, and author of over 70 articles, book chapters, and columns. He was part of a joint Deloitte Consulting-Cleveland State University team that wrote Manufacturing Pennsylvania’s Future in 2004. Ohio’s Competitive Advantage: Manufacturing Productivity was released in 2001. The Brookings Institution recently released Slanted Pavement: How Ohio's Highway Spending Short Changes Cities and Suburbs, a study on the impacts of Ohio’s gasoline tax.
He earned is Ph.D. in both economics and urban and regional planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981.