Anirban Basu is Chairman & CEO of Sage Policy Group, Inc., an economic and policy consulting firm headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland with offices in Pennsylvania and Cambodia. The firm provides strategic analytical services to energy suppliers, law firms, medical systems, government agencies, and real estate developers among others. In 2014, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan appointed Mr. Basu to Chair the Maryland Economic Development Commission. He also serves as chairman of the Baltimore County Economic Advisory Committee. Mr. Basu is the Chief Economist to Associated Builders and Contractors and Chief Economic Advisor to the Construction Financial Management Association. He serves similar functions for Visit Baltimore, the Maryland Association of Realtors, and Marcum, LLC. Mr. Basu lectures at Johns Hopkins University in Global Strategy and has also taught international economics, urban economics, micro- and macroeconomics at Hopkins. His radio show can be heard weekdays on 88.1FM, WYPR, Baltimore. In both 2007 and 2016, the Daily Record newspaper selected Mr. Basu as one of Maryland’s 50 most influential people. The Baltimore Business Journal named him one of the region’s 20 most powerful business leaders in 2010. Mr. Basu has served on many boards in the past and is currently on the boards of St. Mary’s College, the University System of Maryland Foundation, the Center for Emerging Media, the Lyric Opera House and the Archdiocese of Baltimore School System. Mr. Basu earned his B.S. in Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1990. He earned his Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and his Masters in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. His Juris Doctor was earned at the University of Maryland School of Law.