As president of InterGov, Dr. Bruce D. McDowell provides consulting services to a wide variety of clients on intergovernmental subjects that include metropolitan and regional planning, management of federal-aid programs, public involvement processes, transportation and public works programs and multijurisdictional institutions.

Dr. McDowell was Director of Government Policy Research at the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR) in Washington, D.C., 1988-1996. From April 1986 to April 1988 he was Director of Governmental Studies, National Council on Public Works Improvement.

Earlier, Dr. McDowell was Executive Assistant to the Executive Director of ACIR and a Senior Analyst. In 24 years at ACIR, Dr. McDowell prepared reports and draft legislation on federal urban development programs, substate regionalism, regional transportation, federal-aid requirements, citizen participation, reform of the federal-aid system, and intergovernmental consultation processes (including OMB Circular A-95).

Dr. McDowell's former positions also include those of Senior Planner with the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Assistant Director of Regional Planning and Director of Program Coordination with the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, and consultant Housing and Home Finance Agency (predecessor of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development). In 1990-1991, Dr. McDowell chaired the National Building Research Board's Committee on Risk Appraisal in the Development of Facilities Design Criteria.

Dr. McDowell has lectured at numerous colleges and universities, and was on the faculty of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies in 1977 and the International Conference on Urban Planning and Economics in Beijing, China, March 1988. He has many published articles and reports to his credit and has edited or contributed chapters to eight books including The Practice of State and Regional Planning published in 1986 by the American Planning Association. Dr. McDowell holds bachelor and doctoral degrees from American University (1957, 1965) and the Master of City Planning degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1959). His doctoral dissertation was published, in part, as an ACIR report that became the basis for OMB Circular A-95.

Dr. McDowell is active in the American Planning Association, the American Society for Public Administration, the Transportation Research Board, the National Grants Management Association, the American Association for Budget and Program Analysis, the American Political Science Association, and the American Consortium for International Public Administration. Dr. McDowell has been elected to Lambda Alpha (the international land economics honor society), and Pi Sigma Alpha (the national political science honor society).