Well-known economist leaving Maine
Charlie Colgan, a well-known economist who had served on the state’s economic forecasting panel for nearly two decades, is leaving Maine after losing his faculty position at the University of Southern Maine in the midst of ongoing budget cuts.
The Portland Press Herald reported that Colgan is one of six faculty members at USM’s Muskie School of Public Service to have their positions cut. He told the newspaper that he decided to retire in wake of the school’s structural changes and that he has taken a new job in California, where he will work for the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Carol Coultas, the Press Herald’s business editor and Mainebiz’s former editor, wrote in a Thursday column that “his departure will be acutely felt among Maine’s [reporters],” who would often rely on him for comment on stories about Maine’s economy.
Colgan, who has previously provided economic commentary for Mainebiz’s Five on the Future annual feature, was chair of the Maine Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission from 1992-2010 and led the State Planning Office before that.
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