David Brunori is a journalist, author, educator, and lawyer who specializes in tax and government issues. Brunori is a partner at Quarles & Brady where he specializes in state and local taxation.  At GWU, he is a Research Professor at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at the George Washington University where he teaches courses in state and local public finance, fiscal federalism, and state politics and policy.  He also teaches state and local tax law at the George Washington University Law School.

He previously served as the Deputy Publisher at Tax Analysts and as contributing editor to State Tax Notes magazine for which he wrote the Politics of State Taxation, a weekly column focusing on state and local tax and budget politics.

He has published numerous books and articles on state and local tax policy. His book State Tax Policy: a Political Perspective, won the 2001 Choice Award. A third edition of his Local Tax Policy: a Federalist Perspective will soon be published by the Urban Institute Press.

He served as an appellate trial attorney with the Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice and practiced with a Washington DC law firm.