Aiello

Joe Aiello is a recently retired partner, board member, and Senior Fellow at Meridiam Infrastructure and past chairman of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MS degree in city and regional planning from Harvard University. Joe also is a Senior Fellow at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, where he is focusing on the intersection of climate change, infrastructure, and finance. He previously served as president of AECOM Enterprises, where he led the company’s global public-private partnership (P3) business. The result of his work there was the creation of Meridiam Infrastructure, a fund manager/development company that invests exclusively in P3 projects.

In 2015, he was appointed to a five-year pro bono term by Governor Charles Baker of Massachusetts to chair the MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board to help set the MBTA on a course of operational excellence and fiscal sustainability. Major accomplishments included a dramatic reduction in operational losses, improved services, and accelerated capital investment. He has extensive experience in strategic planning, business development, relationship management systems, finance, real estate, and investments.