I currently serve as Executive Director of Economic Development & Community Partnerships and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.Prior to assuming this role, I served as Senior Advisor to the Chancellor following 18 months of service as Acting Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. This followed six years as Executive Director of the Public Policy Center, two terms as Faculty Senate President, and six years as Chair of the Department of Public Policy. I joined the faculty at UMass Dartmouth in 2009 after serving for eight years as the Director of Economic and Public Policy Research at the UMass Donahue Institute. Since 2001, I have served as a senior Editor of MassBenchmarks, the journal of the Massachusetts economy published by the UMass Amherst Donahue Institute in cooperation with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.