Jim Aloisi
Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation
In office
2009–2009
Preceded byBernard Cohen
Succeeded byJeff Mullan
Personal details
ResidenceBoston, Massachusetts
Alma materHarvard Extension School (ALM)[1]
OccupationAuthor
State cabinet secretary

James Aloisi is a Boston-based writer, commentator and consultant with a specialty in transportation planning and policy, and law.

Aloisi is the founding partner of the Pemberton Square Group, a consulting firm providing clients with advice in areas such as real estate, transportation, and communications.[2] He served as Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation from 2008-09,[3] was member of the Board of the Massachusetts Port Authority and Massachusetts Turnpike Authority,[2] and served on the City Protocol Society’s Technical Steering Committee.[4] Aloisi is a former partner at Hill & Barlow and Goulston & Storrs.[5]

Aloisi is a regular contributor to Commonwealth Magazine, published by MassINC, "an independent think tank uniting non-partisan research, civic journalism and independent polling".[6] He is the author of three well-regarded books on significant political and social figures and moments in the history of Massachusetts and the United States of America.

Aloisi is also a member on the board of Boston-based transit policy advocacy group TransitMatters.[7]

Books

  • The Big Dig (2004) was a brief history of Boston's Big Dig, the largest public works project in American history.[8]
  • Magic in the Air: The Times & Life of Boston's Honey Fitz (2007) recounts the ascendancy of John Francis Fitzgerald, grandfather of John F Kennedy. Fitzgerald's political career played out during a critical crossroads in Boston politics.[9]
  • The Vidal Lecture: Sex and Politics in Massachusetts and the Persecution of Chief Justice Robert Bonin (2011) documents the turbulence and discord that marked a struggle between reformers and the established political leadership, and a larger struggle between two generations of political leaders.[10]
  • "Massport at 60" (2018) commemorates the 60th anniversary of the Massachusetts Port Authority and documents its history across local and state politics.[11]

References

  1. ↑ https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/125121/ocn795183245-2008-12-19b.PDF?sequence=1
  2. 1 2 "Who we are". Pscgroup.org. Retrieved June 4, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Aloisi named secretary of transportation | Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation". www.masstaxpayers.org. Archived from the original on February 16, 2017.
  4. ↑ "DUSP MIT Jim Aloisi". dusp.mit.edu. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
  5. ↑ Goulston & Storrs
  6. ↑ "About Us". Massinc.
  7. ↑ "People-Old". transitmatters.org.
  8. ↑ Aloisi, James A.; Allison, Robert J. (2004). The Big Dig. ISBN 1889833827.
  9. ↑ James a. Aloisi, Jr (March 2007). Magic in the Air: The Times and Life of Boston's Honey Fitz. ISBN 978-0978825904.
  10. ↑ Aloisi, James A. (2012). The Vidal Lecture: Sex and Politics in Massachusetts and the Persecution of Chief Justice Robert Bonin. ISBN 978-0978825911.
  11. ↑ "Book review: Massport at 60". April 10, 2018.


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