Colin Foard

Colin Foard directs The Pew Charitable Trusts’ work on emerging fiscal risks to state budgets and on state management of federal funds. He oversees the team’s research agenda and engages policymakers and other stakeholders to help them identify, assess, and mitigate the budgetary impacts of disasters and other risks. Previously, Foard worked for Pew’s fiscal federalism initiative, contributing to research and technical assistance on natural disaster spending and other aspects of the federal-state fiscal relationship.

Before joining Pew, Foard spent five years on the staff of a senior member of the U.S. House of Representatives’ appropriations and budget committees, handling committee work as well as a broad policy portfolio that included homeland security, transportation, housing, and immigration issues. He also served as a congressional constituent caseworker and field representative in Oakland, California.

Foard holds a bachelor’s degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York, and a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of California, Berkeley.