David Falk, JD
Senior Fellow, School of Public Policy
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Magna Cum Laude, Harvard College, 1958 Magna Cum Laude, Harvard Law School, 1961
David Falk is a Senior Fellow at
the School of Public Affairs. Mr. Falk has directed a series of
campus-based training programs for senior housing, planning and administrative
officials from Russia and
other nations formerly part of the Soviet Union. Mr. Falk also teaches state and local tax
policy to graduate students at the School
of Public Affairs, and a course on
private real estate development at the Urban Studies and Planning Program in
the School of Architecture.
Mr. Falk is trained as a lawyer. He was in private law practice in Washington, D.C. for over 15 years where he specialized in real estate finance and affordable housing.
Mr. Falk has also worked in federal and state government. From 1964 to 1969, Mr. Falk was an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel in the U.S. Agency for International Development, serving for the last two years at the USAID Mission in Lima, Peru. Mr. Falk worked from 1969 to 1971 on programs to foster manufactured housing in the United States while at the Office of Research and Technology of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington.
Mr. Falk joined the executive staff of Maryland’s Governor William Donald Schaefer in 1987, and in 1989, he served for two years as Assistant Secretary in the Maryland Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning, where he established a fiscal planning office for the state. Mr. Falk briefly rejoined the Maryland state government in 1994 when he became director of the Community Development Administration, the state’s housing finance agency.
Mr. Falk graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1958, and magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School in 1961. Mr. Falk served as law clerk to the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit immediately following his graduation from law school.