Phillip L. Clay is the Chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Professor of City Planning. The Chancellor and the Provost are the Institute's two most senior academic officers. As Chancellor, Professor Clay has oversight responsibility for graduate and undergraduate education at MIT, student life, and student services. Professor Clay chairs the MIT Council on the Environment and serves on the board of the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
A member of the MIT faculty since 1975, Professor Clay served as Associate Provost in the Office of the Provost from 1994 to 2001. He was Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning from 1992 to 1994 and its Associate Department Head during 1990 to 1992. From 1980 to 1984, Professor Clay served as Assistant Director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard.
Professor Clay is widely known for his work in U.S. housing policy and community-based development and has been involved in several studies that received national attention. For example, in a 1987 study commissioned by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp., he identified the market and institutional conditions contributing to the erosion of low-income rental housing and documented the need for a national preservation policy. He later served on the national commission that recommended the policy that became part of the Housing Act of 1990.
In his latest research, sponsored by several national foundations, Professor Clay evaluated the effectiveness of various initiatives to build organizational and developmental capacity in community-based development organizations. Professor Clay is President of the Board of Directors of the Community Builders, the nation's largest nonprofit developer of affordable housing. In recent years, Professor Clay has served as a senior advisor on projects in several areas.
Professor Clay serves on several boards and councils that address public policy and education in the U.S. and abroad.
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