| Alan A. Altshuler | |
| Birth Date: | 9 March 1936 |
| Birth Place: | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Occupation: | Professor |
| Spouse: | Julie Maller (m. 1958) |
| Alma Mater: | Cornell University University of Chicago |
| Office: | Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation |
| Governor: | Francis W. Sargent |
| Term Start: | 1971 |
| Term End: | 1975 |
| Predecessor: | Position created |
| Successor: | Frederick P. Salvucci |
Alan Anthony Altshuler (born March 9, 1936, in Brooklyn) is an American educator and government official. Altshuler is the Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor in Urban Policy and Planning, Emeritus, at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the John F. Kennedy School of Government.[1]
Altshuler received a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago.
Altshuler became the first director of the Boston Transportation Planning Review in 1970, and from 1971 through 1975, he served as the inaugural Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation. Since 1988, Altshuler has been director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and until 1998, director of the Ford Foundation Program on Innovations in American Government.[2]
Altshuler has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell University, as well as serving as dean at both the New York University Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.[3] At Harvard, Altshuler also served as founding director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston from 2000 to 2004.
Altshuler is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.