Lisa Petraglia is Vice President of Economic Development Research Group. Ms. Petraglia has over 20 years of experience working in enomic modeling and policy analysis, focusing specifically on economic impact evaluation. She has previously worked at the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association and at Regional Economic Models, Inc., where she led the firm’s policy consulting unit and business development efforts. Preceding that role, Ms. Petraglia conducted econometric research and helped constructing regional economic models. She has given numerous speeches on economic impact modeling before organizations around the country, including the Council for Urban Economic Development, National Association of State Development Agencies and the National Association of Management and Technical Assistance Centers.
Ms. Petraglia has policy analysis expertise/experience regarding the measuring of economic impacts of a wide variety of facilities and services, including stadiums, casinos, natural resources, transportation investments, technology programs, military bases and base conversions. She has also analyzed the impacts of public policy, covering environmental, telecom, energy, tax and housing policies. Ms. Petraglia holds a M.S. in Applied Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has published articles in the Journal of Business Forecasting, Environment & Planning A and the Journal of Agricultural Cooperation.