Elizabeth Davison

Biography: August 2003 BIOGRAPHY OF MS. ELIZABETH B. DAVISON Ms. Davison is an urban economist who has spent her more than 30-year career in both the private sector as a real estate and land use consultant and in the public sector, as a planner and manager of a range of housing and community development programs. She has been the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Affairs for Montgomery County, Maryland since 1996. She directs the Department of over 110 staff and a combined budget of over $33 million per year, in the arenas of community development, consumer affairs, commercial revitalization, affordable housing programs, and land use policy in Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. with a population of over 870,000. She was the Director of the Office of Planning Implementation for the County from 1991 though 1996, and also worked for Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission from 1974 through 1980, in the research divisions in both Montgomery and Prince George's County conducting demographic studies and commercial revitalization studies. Prior to joining the County, she was Vice President of Hammer, Siler, George Associates and prior to that, Vice President with Real Estate Research Corporation. In her 15-year consulting career, Ms. Davison conducted market studies and financial feasibility studies for real estate development projects specializing in mixed-use developments. She also prepared commercial revitalization studies, growth management studies and infrastructure needs studies for local and state governments. Her clients included major corporations, nonprofit organizations, real estate syndicators, real estate developers, banks and other financial institutions, universities and federal, state and local governments. Ms. Davison's academic training was at George Washington University as an undergraduate in economics, and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri for graduate study in economi