Martin R. Cantor has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Brooklyn College, a Master of Arts Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from Hofstra University, and a Doctor of Education Administration Degree from Dowling College. He has won a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award and four Long Island Press Awards for his economic analysis on News 12’s The New Normal during the pandemic. He was Suffolk County Economic Development Commissioner, Chief Economist-New York State Assembly Subcommittee for the Long Island Economy; Senior Fellow at the Institute for Socioeconomic Studies, Chair and Chief Economist of the Long Island Development Corp; a building trades labor/management arbitrator; a faculty member in the Brooklyn College Department of Economics; Executive Director of the Patchogue Village Business Improvement District; Director of Economic Development for Sustainable Long Island, and the Long Island Fund for Sustainable Development. He has prepared downtown revitalization plans for Long Island and New York City neighborhoods and has authored: federal, state and local legislation. He was Director of Dowling College’s Long Island Economic and Social Policy Institute and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics. He is a Certified Public Accountant in private practice; Director of the Long Island Center for Socio-Economic Policy where he conducted economic surveys of Long Island manufacturing and the agriculture, a consulting economist and economic development consultant to public officials, counties, towns, villages, Industrial Development Agencies, developers and communities; and Chairman of the Suffolk County Judicial Facilities Agency which financed the acquisition of the Cohalan State Court Complex, oversaw the construction of the Suffolk County Jail in Yaphank and financed the $70 million purchase/leaseback of the Dennison Building to Suffolk County. . He was the architect of the Nassau County Comptroller’s debt restructuring plan for resolving Nassau County’s fiscal crisis . He is an Honorary Member of Delta Mu Delta - The National Honor Society in Business Administration and has been recognized by the National Association of Counties for innovative uses of Industrial Revenue Bonds, for international trade promotion initiatives, for downtown revitalization policies, and for minority business incubator initiatives. He was invited by Dr. William Julius Wilson of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government to present his paper entitled Race Neutral Sustainable Economic Development. He provides economic and business commentary on television and radio including NPR, News 12, Fox News, and is a columnist for the Long Island Business News. He presented his paper entitled Race Neutral Sustainable Economic Development at Harvard University, is author of Long Island, The Global Economy and Race: The Aging of America’s First Suburb and his paper Retention of Long Island Millennials at a Community College: Are They College Ready? appeared in the international peer-reviewed Journal for Leadership and Instruction. In 2020 he was inducted into the Long Island Business Hall of Fame.