page_title: Boston Municipal Research Bureau
section_title: Staff and board
hierarchical_section_title: Boston Municipal Research Bureau / Staff and board
caption_attribution_description: English: Sam Tyler, President of Boston Municipal Research Bureau, talks to Law and Public Policy course, November 17, 2011
context_page_description: The Boston Municipal Research Bureau is a non-profit, member supported research organization which focuses on urban issues in Boston, Massachusetts. The bureau was founded in 1932, and has a board of directors composed of major business and institutional non-profit leaders from the city of Boston. Today, the bureau publishes research reports and papers, "monitor[s] state and local fiscal affairs highlight[s] major policy challenges, from contract negotiations to tax policy," and "studies municipal budgeting, management, and labor issues."
context_section_description: The bureau has offices and a full-time staff based in the Downtown Crossing neighborhood of Boston.  The staff is responsible for the bureau's fact-finding mission, and publishes reports and papers, testifies at public hearings, shadows public officials, and provides quotes to local media.  The current president Pam Kocher who began her tenure as president in 2019 after serving in other roles at the Bureau for several years. Ms. Kocher was preceded by Samuel R. Tyler who served as President of the Bureau for more than 40 years.
  In addition, the bureau has a board of directors composed of executives from many large businesses, universities and law firms based in Boston, including State Street Corporation, Liberty Mutual Group, Harvard University, Ropes & Gray, and the TD Garden.  The Executive Committee of the board had many members who were also members of the so-called "Vault", an informal collection of the heads of the largest businesses in Boston.
caption: Samuel R. Tyler, Former long-time President of Boston Municipal Research Bureau
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