School of Public Policy, Contributing to a Livable World


















Dr. Brien Benson

Brien Benson
Research Professor
Mason Enterprise Center

bbenson@gmu.edu
703-993-3171
703-993-1574 fax
George Mason School of Public Policy
4400 University Drive – MS 2C9
Fairfax, VA 22030

 Education
Ph.D., George Mason University

M.B.A., Stanford University

B.A., Harvard University

Biography
Brien Benson is a Research Associate Professor at the George Mason University's School of Public Policy, where he manages the $ 4 million per year National Center for ITS Implementation Research, along with other sponsored research projects. He has worked on intelligent transportation systems (ITS) institutional issues for the past ten years. He is past President of the Intelligent Transportation Society of Virginia. Dr. Benson was Associate Administrator of the U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration and Policy Director of the U.S. Department of Energy. He was editor-in-chief of a national journal of public policy, Conservative Digest, and was Director of the Hoover Institution Press at Stanford University.

Areas of Research

  • Policy process
  • Policy evaluation
  • Research writing
  • Intelligent transportation systems