Cory Koedel is a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Missouri–Columbia. His work has been published in leading academic journals in the fields of economics, education, and public policy. Koedel has served on numerous technical advisory and review panels for school districts, state and federal agencies, and non-profit organizations. He was a coeditor of Economics of Education Review from 2015-2020 and currently serves on the editorial boards for Education Finance and Policy, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Research in Higher Education. He received his PhD in economics from the University of California, San Diego in 2007.