New MCVFAPresident: Michael Goldstein

Michael A. Goldstein, Ph.D., a call firefighter/EMTwith Sherborn Fire Department, has taken the reins of the Massachusetts Call/Volunteer Firefighters Association (MCVFA) as its new President. President Goldstein is a call firefighter/EMTwith the Sherborn FD, and graduated from the Massachusetts Fire Academy as part of Call/Vol Class 083/086 (the class disrupted during Covid) in 2020. He holds Fire Instructor I, Firefighter I/II, and HazMat certifications. He serves on the Board of the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) and has served a Regional Vice President of the MCVFA.

Outside of his call volunteer work, Dr. Goldstein is a Professor of Finance at Babson College where he holds the Donald P. Babson Chair of Applied Investments. He currently also holds a three-year appointment as a Visiting Professorship Fellow at the Climate Change Research Center at the University of New South Wales. He also i s an Honorary Professor of Environment and Society at Brown University.

He is co-Editor-in-Chief of Financial Management and an Editor at Weather, Climate and Society , a journal of the American Meteorological Society, and Senior Editor at The Journal of Climate Finance. Previously, he was the Editor-in-Chief of The Financial Review. He is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Financial Markets and Finance Research Letters

Dr. Goldstein has received four U.S. National Science Foundation grants related to Arctic Economics.