Emil H. Frankel Joins the Cambridge Systematics Board of Directors (August 5, 2009)
Cambridge Systematics, Inc. is pleased to announce that Emil H. Frankel recently joined our Board of Directors. Mr. Frankel is the Director of Transportation Policy for the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) in Washington, DC, and an independent consultant on transportation policy and public management issues.
In June 2009, under Mr. Frankel’s leadership, the BPC’s National Transportation Policy Project issued its report and recommendations, Performance Driven: A New Vision for U.S. Transportation Policy. In 2008 and 2009, he was a Visiting Lecturer at the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where he taught on issues of transportation, energy, and environmental policy and public management.
Mr. Frankel served as Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy of the U.S. DOT from 2002 to 2005. Appointed by President George W. Bush, Mr. Frankel played a key role in the coordination and development of the Administration’s proposal to reauthorize the Federal highway, transit, and highway safety programs. He also provided policy leadership in such areas as intermodal freight transportation, reform of the Nation’s intercity passenger rail system, transportation project financing, and the application of information technologies to transportation systems operations.
Mr. Frankel also served as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT) from 1991 to 1995, responsible for managing an agency with more than 4,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $1 billion. He returned as Acting Commissioner in early 2008.
From 1995 to 2001, Mr. Frankel was Of Counsel to Day, Berry & Howard in the law firm’s Stamford, Connecticut office. During that time he was also a Management Fellow at Yale University’s School of Management and a Senior Fellow at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, engaged in teaching and research on issues of transportation, energy, and environmental policy and public management. In 1995, he was a Joint Fellow at the Center for Business and Government and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Frankel also served as a founding Vice Chair of the I-95 Corridor Coalition.
Mr. Frankel received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Manchester University in the United Kingdom.
For additional information, contact Kate Malionek (kmalionek@camsys.com).