Board of Directors

The programs in City Planning and Urban Affairs are supported by a distinguished panel of alumni, field experts, faculty, and business professionals who constitute the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors meets at least once a semester to discuss and guide program activities.

Dennis Carlberg

Associate Vice President for University Sustainability, Boston University

Paul Chan

Director of Business Development, Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation (MHIC)

Richard Dimino

President and CEO, A Better City

Tiana Farrant, CEM®

Emergency Manager and Homeland Security Professional

Peter Fox-Penner

Director, Boston University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy; Professor of Practice in the Questrom School of Business, Academic Advisor, The Brattle Group

Vance Freymann

Director of Project Development, Consigli Construction Co., Inc

Joshua Hassol

Senior Transportation Technology Policy Analyst, United States Department of Transportation’s Volpe National Transportation Systems Center

Anne Haynes

CEO, Houston Land Bank

Emily Keys Innes

Planner and Urban Designer, Innes Associates Ltd.

Eran Ben-Joseph

Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mark A. Klopfer

LEED Accredited Architect and Professor of Architecture at Wentworth Institute of Technology

Kwabena Kyei-Aboagye

Environmental Protection Agency and Adjunct Professor at Boston University

Katharine Lusk

Co-Director, Initiative on Cities, Boston University

George “Mac” McCarthy

President and CEO, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Deepti Nijhawan

Higher Education Administrator and Architecture and Planning Professional

Mark Pasnik

Associate Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Principal, over, under

Laxmi J. Rao

Director, International District Energy Association

Dr. Lawrence Susskind

Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, MIT Vice-Chair, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School

Brian Swett

Director, Cities and Sustainable Real Estate at Arup

J. Brandon Wilson

Executive Director, Somerville Historic Preservation Commission

Tanya Zlateva

Professor and Dean, Boston University Metropolitan College