{"id":10729,"date":"2019-01-02T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/massecon.com\/?page_id=10729"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:34:41","slug":"peter-abair","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/massecon.com\/pl\/about\/staff\/peter-abair\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Abair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"ezcol ezcol-one-quarter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/massecon.com\/about\/staff\/massecon-holiday-lunch-6771\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12648\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12648 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/massecon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MassEcon-Holiday-Lunch-6771-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\u00a0<div class=\"ezcol ezcol-one-quarter\">\n<h4><em><strong>Peter Abair<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<h4>CEO &amp; Executive Director<\/h4>\n<h4>617-924-4600 x111<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:pabair@massecon.com\">E-mail Peter<\/a>\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"ezcol ezcol-one-quarter\"><\/div> <div class=\"ezcol ezcol-one-quarter ezcol-last\"><\/div><div class=\"ezcol-divider\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Peter Abair is <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">CEO of the Massachusetts Alliance for Economic Development and the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Economic Development Foundation, collectively known as MassEcon.<\/span> \u00a0He joined MassEcon after serving as Executive Director of the MassBioEd Foundation and Director of Economic and Global Affairs at MassBio. He previously served the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in several positions, including: Director of the Massachusetts Department of Economic Development, Massachusetts Office of Business Development, Associate Director of the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development, Director of Governor Cellucci\u2019s office in western Massachusetts, and in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Education. He began his career on the Washington, D.C. staff of the late Congressman Silvio O. Conte.\u00a0 Peter holds a B.A. in History and International Relations from Boston University and a M.A. in Public Policy and Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.\u00a0 He resides in Sudbury with his family.\u00a0 He recently authored <em>Each Hath a Hand<\/em>, an historic fiction on the outbreak of the American Revolution in Massachusetts.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Peter Abair is CEO of the Massachusetts Alliance for Economic Development and the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Economic Development Foundation, collectively known as MassEcon. \u00a0He joined MassEcon after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":3088,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10729","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO 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