Stephen P. Mullin

Stephen P. Mullin is president of Econsult Solutions, Inc. His consulting practice concentrates on state and local public finance and policy analysis, tax policy analysis, and economic and real estate development and impact analyses.

Mr. Mullin served from 1993-2000 as Philadelphia’s director of commerce, chairing the Mayor’s Economic Development Cabinet and coordinating activities of the City’s development agencies and the Philadelphia International Airport. He served on many boards and commissions, including the City Planning Commission and Philadelphia Industrial and Commercial Development Corporations, the Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Historic Commission, the Port of Philadelphia and Camden and the Penn’s Landing Development Corporation. Mr. Mullin also served as Philadelphia’s director of finance from 1992-1993, when he chaired the City’s Pension Board and served on the Pennsylvania Convention Center Board. In the 1980’s Mr. Mullin served as budget director of St. Louis and deputy director of the St. Louis Development Corporation.

Mr. Mullin currently serves as an independent trustee of the Optimum Fund Trust Mutual Fund, a director of NASDAQ OMX Futures Exchange and on the advisory boards of Haverford Trust Company and the Arden Real Estate Fund I. He also serves on the boards of the Independence Visitor Center Corporation, CultureWorks, the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Community College of Philadelphia Foundation, the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia History Museum.  He also serves on the Preservation Alliance Advocacy Committee, the Philadelphia Sports Congress and the Philadelphia World Trade Center Advisory Council.

Mr. Mullin is a 1973 cum laude graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, a 1977 magna cum laude in economics graduate of Harvard University, and he earned an M.A. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982.  He has taught economics and public finance courses at Drexel University, Penn’s Fels School, City Planning Department, Wharton and many other local universities. He has authored articles, delivered numerous speeches, is frequently interviewed in print and television media, and participates in many seminars and panels discussing local government policy, economic and real estate development, environmental and education issues.  He was voted one of Philadelphia’s 101 most connected people in 2007.

Mr. Mullin is a member of the Union League and the Philadelphia Club, and was the regional director of the Harvard Alumni Association. Mr. Mullin lives with his wife Janet in the Spring Garden district of Philadelphia.