Grace Gallucci is the Executive Director for the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency, which is the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) forgreater Cleveland. She is responsible for transportation planning and resource allocation in the five county region. Ms. Gallucci has nearly 30 years of finance and planning experience in the field of transportation, including positions with the Chicago Regional Transportation Authority where she held the titles of Deputy Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer, as well as Director of Office of Management & Budget for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority and as an management analyst for the Office of Transportation, Broward County, Florida. Ms. Gallucci has also been an adjunct professor/lecturer at Cleveland State University, Kent State University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Northwestern University teaching courses in public finance, economics, public policy and transportation management. Ms. Gallucci holds a Master of Science in Urban Studies from Cleveland State University, and both a Master of Public Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Dayton.