Biography
Rick McGahey is an economist and a nationally recognized expert on urban and regional economic development, program evaluation, retirement policy, and workforce development. He is currently Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at the New School for Social Research and a Senior Research Fellow at the ASU Center for Work and Democracy. Before that, he was a Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the New School’s Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy, where he also served as a Faculty Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis.
McGahey has worked in academia, philanthropy, the private sector, and government at all levels—federal, state, and local—including with the Ford Foundation, Abt Associates, the US Department of Labor, the New York State Department of Economic Development, and the City of New York. He holds a PhD in economics from the New School for Social Research and has taught at The New School, New York University, John Jay College, and The George Washington University.