Eugene ‘Gus’ Newport is the Executive Director of the Institute for Community Economics and the former Mayor of Berkeley, CA (1979- 1986). Newport has worked for federal, state, county, and local governments, as well as nonprofit agencies on neighborhood planning and development, economic development, and financing municipal capital improvements. He has lectured at numerous universities and served on several national policy boards and United Nations committees. 

Eugene ‘Gus’ Newport is the Executive Director of the Institute for Community Economics and the former Mayor of Berkeley, CA (1979- 1986). Newport has worked for federal, state, county, and local governments, as well as nonprofit agencies on neighborhood planning and development, economic development, and financing municipal capital improvements. He has lectured at numerous universities and served on several national policy boards and United Nations committees.