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Nicholas A. Johnson, Adjunct Instructor in the SanfordSchool of Public Policy  

Office Phone: (919) 613-9390
Email Address: nicholas.a.johnson@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

    Education:
    M.P.P., Duke University, 1994
    B.A., Yale University, 1987

    Highlight:
    A 1994 alum of the Sanford School's MPP program, Nick Johnson has more than three decades of experience in tax policy and social policy. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington DC and previously led the District of Columbia Tax Revision Commission as Executive Director. Before that, he served at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where he built a network of 40 affiliated state-level organizations working to expand economic opportunity and reduce poverty through state-level policy reform. Nick's background includes service as a Professional Staff Member for the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, where he worked on economic development and welfare reform, and as a journalist in California, Illinois, and Virginia. An avid runner, cyclist, and paddler, Nick and his wife Tina live in Washington, DC.

    Nicholas A. Johnson