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Dr. Alfie Meek serves on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology as the Director of the Center for Economic Development Research. A nationally recognized economist and expert in fiscal impact analysis, Dr. Meek is also President of the Economic Impact Group, LLC. (EIG), a private consulting firm that specializes in economic and fiscal impact analysis supporting state and local economic development.  Founded in 2002, EIG helps clients understand how development impacts the local economy; how to measure, track, and forecast local economic performance; and how to calculate the return on tax-based economic development incentives.

EIG is also the owner and sole provider of LOCI™ — the nationally recognized gold standard in fiscal impact analysis software. Licensed by dozens of communities across the country, LOCI™ helps users understand the true cost to local governments of development and development incentives.  Subscribers include cities ranging from Los Angeles, California to Austin, Texas to South Bend, Indiana. And not only cities, but local economic development authorities from InvestAtlanta in Georgia to the Sioux Falls Development Authority in South Dakota have utilized the LOCI™ model to give them a strategic advantage when negotiating with economic development prospects.  To learn more about the LOCI™ model, please visit www.lociapp.com.

This is Dr. Meek’s personal website and is NOT affiliated in any way with any other organization. Any opinions expressed here are solely those of Dr. Meek.

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