Phillip L Clay PhD

Dr. Phillip L. Clay has served on the Board of Directors for The Community Builders, Inc. (TCB) since March 1982 and is currently Chair. Dr. Clay is the former Chancellor of, and Professor of City Planning at, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has served as Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and as Director of the Masters in City Planning Program at MIT. Dr. Clay has also served as Assistant Director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard, and as a member of the Policy and Research Advisory Councils of the Fannie Mae. He was appointed Chancellor of MIT on July 1, 2001. Dr. Clay's accomplishments include his work in U.S. housing policy and community-based development, including two books: “Neighborhood Renewal: Middleclass Resettlement and Incumbent Upgrading in American Neighborhoods” and, with Rob Hollister, “Neighborhood Politics and Planning.” Dr. Clay’s current research evaluates the effectiveness of various initiatives to build organizational and developmental capacity in community-based development organizations. Dr. Clay received the AB degree with Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1968 and his Ph.D. in City Planning in 1975 from MIT.