Anirban Basu
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Sage Policy
Group, Inc.
575 South Charles Street Suite 505
Baltimore, MD
21201
410-522-7243
email: abasu@sagepolicy.com
Career Brief
Anirban Basu is Chairman & CEO of Sage Policy Group, Inc., an economic
and policy consulting firm headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland with offices in
Pennsylvania and Cambodia. The firm provides strategic analytical
services to energy suppliers, law firms, medical systems, government agencies,
and real estate developers among others.
In 2014, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan appointed him Chair of the Maryland
Economic Development Commission. He also serves as chairman of the
Baltimore County Economic Advisory Committee. He is also the Chief
Economist to Associated Builders and Contractors and Chief Economic Advisor to
the Construction Financial Management Association. He serves similar
functions for Visit Baltimore, the Maryland Association of Realtors, and Marcum,
LLC.
He lectures at Johns Hopkins University in Global Strategy and has also
taught international economics, urban economics, micro- and macroeconomics at
Hopkins. His radio show can be heard weekdays on 88.1FM, WYPR,
Baltimore.
In both 2007 and 2016, the Daily Record newspaper selected Mr. Basu as one of
Maryland’s 50 most influential people. The Baltimore Business Journal named him
one of the region’s 20 most powerful business leaders in 2010.
Mr. Basu has been on many boards over time, including First Mariner Bank, the
Baltimore City Public School System, Port Discovery, the Baltimore School for
the Arts, and Union Memorial Hospital. He is currently on the boards of
St. Mary’s College, the University System of Maryland Foundation, the Center for
Emerging Media, the Lyric Opera House and the Archdiocese of Baltimore School
System.
Mr. Basu earned his B.S. in Foreign Service at Georgetown University in
1990. He earned his Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University’s
John F. Kennedy School of Government, and his Master’s in Economics from the
University of Maryland, College Park. His Juris Doctor was earned at the
University of Maryland School of Law
