Jonathan Lin Davis

Jonathan Lin Davis is a researcher, author, consultant, strategist, and scholar whose work spans the academy, the Texas Capitol, and the institutions he advises. The common thread is a measured, evidence-based approach to understanding how organizations and public systems actually work.

At the Texas Capitol, he serves as Lead Finance & Economics Analyst with the House Research Organization (HRO), having previously served as Lead Local Government Analyst with the Senate Research Center (SRC). In these nonpartisan roles he translates complex legislative and fiscal questions into clear analysis.

He began his career in the government and educational sectors, serving as Executive Director of the Generation Hope Program under Tarrant County Commissioner Roy C. Brooks, and he co-founded MEASURE Austin, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research and public education organization, in 2017. In 2023 he founded MICRO Group, LLC to professionalize nearly a decade of consultative work into a strategic, research-driven practice.

His scholarship and his practice inform one another: doctoral research on what drives organizational and nonprofit success sits alongside hands-on institutional leadership, and both feed a body of writing on policy, philanthropy, and the discipline of thinking carefully in public.