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Brad Jackson has over sixteen years
of experience in the community and economic development
profession. He has served as the Executive Director of the
County of Franklin Industrial Development Agency and Local
Development Corporation since January 2002, having come to this
position from a background in economics, land use planning and
strategic/operational planning. As an economist, Executive
Director Jackson has an academic and a vocational interest in
economic geography (the study of economic activity in a spatial
dimension).
He is keenly interested in
border regions and cross border economic development. As an A.C.
Walker North Country Research fellowship, Executive Director
Jackson has studied numerous border regions in Europe and North
America to understand inter-regional cooperation as an economic
development strategy.
More information about
Executive Director Jackson's insights on this can be read here.
Executive Director Jackson's
strategic and operational focus as it relates to economic
development is seen in the economic geography of the following
works:
· County of Franklin Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
· Building
Infrastructure via a Networked Incubator and Industrial System
for the Wood Products Industry
Executive
Director Jackson is a teacher and a mentor of economics and
economic development. He spent a year as a Visiting Professor
of Economics at Clarkson University School of Business. He
participates in the following organizations:
United States
Armed Forces
Brad
Jackson is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army,
serving as an Army economist and Civil-Affairs branched
officer. His duties include functioning as an economic
developer for the US Army in post conflict scenarios and in US.
military operations.
Lieutenant Colonel Jackson received
a Bronze star for his contributions to Operation Iraqi
Freedom, rotation one (January 2003 – March 2004).
He served as a senior economic
development advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in
Baghdad, assisting the Ministry of Industry and Minerals (MIM)
in resuming operations of its state-owned enterprises.
Lieutenant Colonel
Jackson's activities were featured in a front-page story in the
Wall Street Journal (“Jassoum of Mesopotamia”)
and several New York State regional newspapers. In a North
Country Public Radio interview on his trip to Iraq, then Govern or
Pataki called Lieutenant Colonel Jackson “inspiring”.
Lieutenant Colonel Jackson and his economic team's exploits have
been featured in Rajiv Chandrasekaran's 'Imperial Life in the
Emerald City', an account of post conflict economic
reconstruction efforts of the Coalition Provisional Authority in
Baghdad.
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