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Geoffrey Beckwith, MMA Executive Director

Geoff Beckwith is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Municipal Association. In this post, Beckwith is the MMA’s CEO as well as the President/CEO of the Massachusetts Interlocal Insurance Association (MIIA), the MMA’s municipal insurance program.

Prior to assuming his position as Executive Director of the MMA in February 1992, Beckwith was:
• Director of Work Environment, Environment, and Technology Policy at UMassLowell (1991-1992)
• Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1985-1991), where he served as Vice Chair of the Government Regulations Committee, and as a member of the committees on Taxation, Natural Resources & Agriculture, and Housing & Urban Development
• Campaign Manager of the Campaign for Massachusetts’ Future (1990)
• Lecturer in Political Science at Emmanuel College (1990)
• Assistant to the Massachusetts Commissioner of Commerce and Development (1983-1984)
• Administrative Assistant to the Reading Board of Selectmen (1982-1983)
• Legislative Assistant in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1979-1982)

Beckwith has served a three-year term as a member of the Advisory Council of the National League of Cities. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the NLC, having been elected to a two-year term for 1996 and 1997, was Vice Chair of the State Municipal League Directors Steering Committee, and is a past Board Member and Chair of NLC-RISC, the NLC-sponsored consortium of municipal insurance programs in over 30 states.

Beckwith is a magna cum laude graduate of Boston College, and a former Visiting Scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health. He lives in Reading with his wife, Drucilla Wood-Beckwith; they have two children, Calley and Sam.