Dr. Alan Chartock is President and CEO of WAMC/Northeast Public Radio. He is Professor Emeritus at the University at Albany. He is Executive Publisher and Project Director of the Legislative Gazette, the newspaper of state government. He hosts the weekly Capitol Connection series, heard on public radio stations around New York. The program for almost twelve years, highlighted interviews with Governor Mario Cuomo and now continues with conversations with state political leaders. Dr. Chartock also appears each week on The Media Project on WAMC and offers commentary on other WAMC programs such as Midday Magazine. He is executive producer of WAMC's National Programming. Alan's syndicated column on politics appears in newspapers throughout New York State. A second column, I Publius, appears in The Berkshire Eagle each Saturday. Alan's latest effort his online blog, where he regularly shares his thoughts on issues of the day.

Dr. Chartock has won numerous awards at SUNY including the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and The SUNY Council for University Affairs and Development Award for Educational Achievement. He was one of the first recipients of the SUNY Award for Excellence. He is the author of Me and Mario Cuomo: Conversations in Candor, published by Barricade Books.

Dr. Chartock is married to Dr. Roselle Kline Chartock, a professor of education at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams who has edited a widely acclaimed book on the Holocaust. The Chartocks live in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and have two children, Jonas and Sarah.

In his extremely limited spare time, Alan Chartock has been known to grab a banjo and play a gig with The Berkshire Ramblers.