Neil Crispo

Dr. Neil Shea Crispo is Senior Vice President Emeritus of Florida TaxWatch. He served as Senior Vice President for Research and Operations at TaxWatch from 1991 through 1998, and afterward served as Vice President for Research Development through 2000.

Dr. Crispo is a Courtesy Professor and Intern Coordinator at the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. He is also President of Y-HAT Inc., an association for the Provision of Research & Educational Resources.

He specializes in Civic Association Leadership, Strategic Planning and Accountability, Non–Governmental Organizations, State/Local Government Policy & Finance, and Education Policy.

Dr. Crispo has held several administrative and faculty positions in higher education during his thirty–three–year career in Florida′s community college and state university systems.

He served for fifteen years as an officer in the United States Coast Guard both on active duty and in the active reserve, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Commander, and was assigned to the position of unit commander.

He holds a Bachelors degree in Social Science and a Masters degree in Sociology from Florida State University, and a Doctor of Education in Education Administration from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Dr. Crispo has been and is currently noted as a Heritage Foundation Policy Expert.