Claudette Robey, M.P.A.

Claudette Robey is the Assistant Director with the Center for Public Management and the Great Lakes Environmental Finance Center, two research and technical assistance centers of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. Claudette works with clients at the local, regional, state, and federal levels on projects and policy issues focusing on capital improvement and infrastructure planning; educational finance; neighborhood, community, and economic development; economic development strategy; coastal resources management training; management strategy and performance/operations reviews and evaluations; municipal services consolidations; public finance; and taxation and tax policy issues. She has 15 years of experience in applied research, technical assistance, and project coordination and management. She has 10 years of experience in the field of economic development, working with nonprofit and local, regional, and state government entities on business attraction and retention efforts. Her economic development experience also includes coordinating, managing, and implementing a regional economic development strategy, categorically focusing on technology, government, infrastructure, education, and regional development. Ms. Robey has more than 30 years of experience in editing and writing news, research-based, analytical, technical, narrative, and business publications for the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration, with a concentration in Economic Development, from Cleveland State University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.