In addition to his teaching and research at Cornell, Dr. Geddes served as a commissioner on the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission, which submitted its report to Congress in January 2008. He is also a research associate for the Mineta Transportation Institute. In 2009 he served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar studying transportation public–private partnerships in Australia. He has held positions as a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers, a visiting faculty fellow at Yale Law School, and a national fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1991, and his bachelor’s degree in economics and finance from Towson State University in 1984.