Dr. Jerry Anthony is global change-maker. In 2003, he co-founded the Housing Trust Fund of Johnson County, a non-profit organization that (with an operating budget of $1.2 million in FY2018) funds creation of new affordable housing in Johnson County, Iowa, USA.  In 2012, he co-founded the World Institute of Sustainable Development in Kochi, India.  He is a tenured associate professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Iowa, where he has been employed since earning his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 2000.  He has been named an Excellent Educator by the American Planning Association, one of only two professors ever to be bestowed this recognition in the state of Iowa.  His publications are widely read, with a 2004 paper titled "The Effects of Florida's Growth Managment Act on Housing Affordability" named one of the top 10 most influential papers published in the prestigious Journal of the American Planning Association in 25 years.   His research has been funded by numerous US and international agencies, including the Brookings Institution and the MacArthur Foundation. He teaches a study abroad course in the University of Iowa's internationally decorated India Winterim program; called "Sustainable Development: The Kerala experience",  this course has had a transformative impact on scores of graduate and undergraduate students from over 15 North American universities since 2009.  And from 2015 onwards, he has been a visiting scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, advising and teaching students from over 20 Asian and Scandinavian countries.  He is trained as an architect, a physical (town & country) planner and a policy planner with a Bachelors, Masters and a Ph.D. degree.