Gerald Gordon Email & Phone Number

Gerald L. Gordon, Ph.D., is the president and chief executive officer of the Economic Development Authority in Fairfax County, Virginia, the second-largest suburban office markets in the United States. He has been with the FCEDA since late 1983. In that time, office space in the county grew from 32 million square feet to 114 million square feet, and jobs in the county grew from 243,000 to more than 600,000. As a result, the real estate tax rate has decreased from $1.47 to $1.085. In 2013, Virginia Business magazine put him on its first-ever "50 Most Influential Virginians" list.In 2005, the FCEDA was named by Site Selection magazine as one of the Top Ten Economic Development organizations in North America. In 2007, Time magazine called Fairfax County “one of the great economic success stories of our time.” In 2011, the Washington Post said “Fairfax County remains the economic wunderkind of Virginia and in many ways of the Washington area.”He holds a bachelor’s degree from The Citadel, a master’s degree from George Washington University, and a doctorate in International Economics from the Catholic University of America.He is the author of 12 books, most recent are Reinventing Local and Regional Economies, The Formula for Economic Growth on Main Street America, and The Economic Viability of Micropolitan Areas, to be published in 2013 by CRC Press. In 2010, Virginia Business magazine named Dr. Gordon its “2010 Virginia Business Person of the Year,” and he received the James Rees Award from the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce the same year.In 2011, Leadership Fairfax, Inc., named Dr. Gordon the recipient of the 2011 Northern Virginia Regional Leadership Award. In 2012, the Transwestern commercial real estate firm honored Dr. Gordon as its “2012 Public Sector TrendSetter of the Year” for the Washington metropolitan area.

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  President/Ceo

  Fairfax County Economic Development Authority

  1983 - Present