David Eichenthal is a nonresident fellow in the Center for Local Finance and Growth at the Urban Institute. He was previously a senior adviser for policy implementation and delivery in the Biden White House. At the Domestic Policy Council, he led a White House working group on Puerto Rico, and at the US Treasury Department, he led state and local government engagement to support the use of clean energy tax credits.

Eichenthal spent 30 years working in and with state and local governments across the nation. He served in senior local government positions in New York City and Chattanooga, Tennessee. As a consultant, he led projects with dozens of local governments nationally, with a focus on budget, operations, and policy. He also led the National Resource Network, an Obama administration initiative that provided comprehensive technical assistance to more than 60 economically challenged cities nationally.

Eichenthal is working on the book Forgotten Cities, which is under contract with SUNY Press. He coauthored The Art of the Watchdog: Fighting Fraud, Waste, Abuse and Corruption in Government (Excelsior Books, 2014), which the New York Times said, “ought to be required reading for any government executive.”

A graduate of the University of Chicago and New York University Law School, Eichenthal previously was a senior research fellow at the New York University School of Law Center for Research in Crime and Justice and a nonresident senior fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program.