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ARS Board of Directors
Robert Yaro
 Robert D. Yaro is the President of the Regional Plan Association. Before assuming this role, Mr. Yaro served as RPA's Executive Director from 1990 to 2001. Headquartered in Manhattan, RPA is America's oldest and most distinguished independent metropolitan research and advocacy group. At RPA, Bob Yaro led the five-year effort to prepare RPA's Third Regional Plan, A Region at Risk, which he co-authored in 1996.
He chairs The Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York, a broad-based coalition of civic groups formed to guide redevelopment in Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Mr. Yaro is currently Practice Professor in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also served on the faculties of Harvard and Columbia Universities.
From 1985 to 1989 Mr. Yaro was Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Founder and Director of the University's Center for Rural Massachusetts. In this role, he initiated Growing Smart in Massachusetts, the nation's first smart growth initiative. His 1988 book, Dealing with Change in the Connecticut River Valley, received awards from the American Planning Association, the Nation Trust for Historic Preservation, and other groups.
From 1976 to 1984 Mr. Yaro served as Chief Planner and then Deputy Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management. In this capacity he developed and led the state's largest urban revitalization and environmental protection programs, including the 14-city Urban Heritage State Park system. Prior to this he worked as an urban planner for the Boston Redevelopment Authority, where he worked on the City's waterfront redevelopment program.
He holds a Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University and a Bachelors Degree in Urban Studies from Wesleyan University.
He is an honorary member of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
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