Assistant Director, Center for Public Management and Great Lakes Environmental Finance Center
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

Phone: 216.875.9988
Email: c.robey@csuohio.edu

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. She works with clients at the local, regional, state, and federal levels on projects and policy issues focusing on public finance, economic development, economic development strategy, capital improvement and infrastructure planning, management strategy and performance/operations reviews and evaluations, municipal services consolidations, and taxation and tax policy issues. Her experience additionally includes applied research, technical assistance, focus group facilitation, and project coordination and management. Ms. Robey’s experience includes 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 focused 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, policy, technical, narrative, and business publications for the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. She serves as the Managing Editor of Economic Development Quarterly, the foremost journal in national economic development research, policy and practice. 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 from Nicholls State University.

Areas of Expertise:

• Best Practices and Benchmarking Studies
• Building Strategic Alliances Among Public, Private, and Nonprofit Sectors
• Capital Improvement Planning
• Economic Development
• Economic Development Strategy
• Evaluation of Economic
• Focus Group Moderation and Analysis
• Infrastructure Finance
• Municipal government operations
• Municipal Services
• Performance/operations reviews
• Program Evaluations Assessments & Development
• Public Administration
• Public Finance
• Public Management
• Regional economic development
• Strategic Planning
• Survey Design and Development