Mildred E. Warner is a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Department of Global Development at Cornell University where her work focuses on local government service delivery, economic development, environmental sustainability, age-friendly planning and public health. Warner’s research explores the impact of privatization and devolution on local government and the role of human services as social infrastructure for economic development. Her research explores the challenges of privatization, preemption and fiscal decentralization on local governments. Her work on age-friendly planning explores new community development models for addressing human services which link the needs of children and seniors to promote public health. Her work on economic development also focuses on the linkages to environmental sustainability action. She has a PhD in development sociology, a master’s in agricultural economics from Cornell University and a BA in history from Oberlin College. For more information see www.mildredwarner.org.