Martin R. Cantor, CPA, MA

Director, Long Island Economic and Social Policy Institute at Dowling College

Martin R. Cantor has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and a Master of Arts Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from Hofstra University, and is currently enrolled in the doctoral program in Educational Administration, Leadership and Technology at Dowling College.

He is Director of the Long Island Economic and Social Policy Institute at Dowling College, a Certified Public Accountant in private practice, an adjunct associate professor of economics, a consulting economist providing services to counties, towns, villages, industrial development agencies, and Chairman of the Suffolk County Judicial Facilities Agency.

Mr. Cantor has served as Suffolk County Economic Development Commissioner, Chief Economist, New York State Assembly Subcommittee for the Long Island Economy; Senior Fellow at the White Plains, New York-based Institute for Socio-economic Studies , Chief Economist and Chair of the Long Island Development Corp; a building trades labor/management arbitrator; a consultant to the Nassau Interim Financial Authority; an advisor to the Suffolk County Executive and Chair of The Suffolk County Downtown Revitalization Advisory Panel, faculty member in the Brooklyn College Department of Economics; Executive Director of the Patchogue Village Business Improvement District; and, most recently, as Director of Economic Development and Chief Economist for Sustainable Long Island and the Long Island Fund for Sustainable Development.