James R. Gomes is the inaugural Director of Clark's Mosakowski Institute. He was the president and CEO of the Environmental League of Massachusetts from 1993 to 2007 where he founded or co-founded several key initiatives, including the Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance and the Massachusetts Environmental Collaborative. Earlier in his career,  Gomes served as Massachusetts Undersecretary of Environmental Affairs, as Executive Assistant to Senator John Kerry, as a Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General, and as an attorney at the Boston firm of Hale and Dorr. In 2006, he co-chaired Governor Deval Patrick’s transition working group on energy and the environment. He is currently the Chairman of the Massachusetts Environmental Trust, the state's public environmental philanthropy. An expert on public policy and its implementation, he has taught at Williams College and Tufts University and held a research appointment at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He received his B.A. in political science from Trinity College, a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.