Richard Delaney is the Executive Director of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies. From 2003 to 2007, he was the Executive Vice President of Horsley & Witten Group based in Sandwich, MA.. Prior to this, he was the Director of the Urban Harbors Institute from its inception in January 1989 to December 2003.

Rich received his BA in Political Science from Harvard University in 1970, did graduate work in environmental planning at S.U.N.Y. College of Environmental Sciences at Syracuse, NY and completed a Senior Management Program at the JFK School of Government at Harvard in 1983.

Rich has over 20 years experience in many aspects of environmental management, policy, planning and sustainable development of coastal resources with particular emphasis on coastal and harbor related issues. He was the Assistant Secretary of Environmental Affairs and Director of the Coastal Zone Management Program in Massachusetts for 9 years and has participated in the development of coastal management programs in the states of Massachusetts, Texas and Florida bringing a focus on expanded public access to the coast, improved water quality and habitat protection, and appropriate land use planning. Coastal management principles emphasize public education activities that enable meaningful participation at the local level by all parties interested in the management of coastal resources.

Internationally, Rich has provided technical and management assistance involving sustainable tourism, urban water quality, port management, institution strengthening, capacity building and citizen participation projects in numerous countries including Benin, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Cote d'Ivoire, Republic of Georgia, Ghana, Jamaica, Namibia, Russia, South Africa and Ukraine.

He serves on the advisory boards of an extensive network of state, national and international organizations and is a former national chairman of the Board of Directors of the Coastal States Organization (CSO), representing the Governors of 35 coastal States before Congress. In that capacity, he routinely testified before Congressional committees on coastal issues and budgets. He served on President Clinton's Economics and International Trade Transition Team focusing on the programs and polices within the Department of Commerce. He was a member of Governor Weld's Seaport Economic Development Commission and a member of the National Park Service Advisory Council for Cape Cod National Seashore.