George Durante

George Durante

TDI Deputy Director of Investments and Partnerships

George is the TDI Deputy Director of the Fellows Program. His role is to manage and provide strategic support to the cohort of 12 TDI Fellows as they work to accelerate neighborhood-scale, equitable economic development in Gateway Cities across Massachusetts.  He joined MassDevelopment in 2016 as the TDI Fellow for Brockton and later served as the TDI Senior Regional Fellow, simultaneously covering the communities of Attleboro, Barnstable, and Brockton. He approaches planning and economic development with a broad lens that is rooted in his prior experience working in state and local government, a community-based social enterprise and in the private sector.  George has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and Regional Planning from Westfield State University and a Master of Science in Urban & Regional Policy from Northeastern University.