Elizabeth Deakin

Elizabeth Deakin is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Urban Design at the University of California, where she also is an affiliated faculty member of the Energy and Resource Group and the Master of Urban Design group.

Her research interests include transportation policy, planning and analysis; land use policy and planning; legal and regulatory issues; institutions and organizations; energy and the environment as well as new technologies.

Elizabeth has a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering Transportation Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a law degree from Boston College Law School.

Since 1985 Elizabeth has been working at the Department of City Dept. of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. To name a few other achievements, she from 1998-2008 served as Director of the University of California Transportation Research Center and from 2005-2008 as co-director of the UC Berkeley Global Metropolitan Studies Initiative. She has also been both chair (2013-2014) and vice chair (2012-2013) of the Berkeley Division of University of California Academic Senate.

She has published over 200 articles, book chapters, and reports on topics ranging from environmental justice to transportation pricing to development exactions and impact fees. She is currently carrying out a series of studies on urban development and transportation in China, Latin America, and India as well as in California. Elizabeth is frequently called upon to advise mayors and city council members as well as transit board members.