Mark Pisano is Chairman of the Infrastructure Funding Alliance, a non-profit focused on creating approaches to funding and implementing infrastructure for the 21st century. He was a Professor of Practice at the Sol Price School of Policy at the University of Southern California. He is on the National Academy of Public Administration Board and Co-chairman of the Standing Panel on Intergovernmental Relations. He is co-chairman of the Infrastructure Working Group of California Forward. He recently published a book called The Puzzle of the American Economy: How Demography is Changing America’s Economy and Politics. He participated in the legislative process of drafting and enacting SB 375 Sustainable Communities and Climate Change Act and SB 628 Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts.
Mark Pisano directed the activities of the Southern California Association of Governments from 1976 to 2008, the nation’s largest regional planning agency. The counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura, and cities within these counties are members of the Association. This voluntary association of local governments aims to provide an open forum where region-wide problems can be explored, and comprehensive plans dealing with air and water quality, transportation, regional growth and development, housing, and other areas critical to the region can be developed.
Before joining SCAG in November 1976, Mr. Pisano was director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Water Quality Planning Division. For several years, Mr. Pisano was responsible for developing policies on implementing the nation’s water quality management process, including basin and facility planning and wastewater management programs. He previously served as an economist with the Environmental Protection Agency.