Jim Nuzzo
Type of Fellow: Change Fellow
Description:
Where in addition to his medical
course studied philosophy with Daniel N. Robinson. He was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and
was awarded the Upjohn Academic Achievement Award, the Georgetown Clinical
Society Award, the Neurology Prize and the Georgetown Student Fellowship in
Pathology. He was a Chief Resident in Neurology at the Longwood Area Training
Program of Harvard Medical School. He studied behavioral neurology with Norman
Geschwind and was a Research Fellow at the Kennedy School where he wrote on science and the
first amendment.
Dr. Nuzzo won a White House Fellowship in 1987 and was Vice President
George Bush's Deputy Director of Policy where he developed and analyzed
economic, trade, regulatory and domestic policy. He was instrumental in
promulgating the regulations for the 1987 Fair Housing Amendments Act. In 1989, he was Special Assistant in the
Office of the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where he
established the EPA's international finance expertise and created debt for
nature swaps with innovative financing techniques for multinational development
banks.
He graduated with honors from the Harvard Law
School in 1994 and was
named a Kaufman Fellow. He
has been a freelance journalist with Oregon Public Television and the Public
Broadcasting System, which has awarded him a grant to write and develop the
four-part documentary on the history of workers in the United States
entitled, America at Work. Dr. Nuzzo has been the on-air Chief GOP
Political Analyst for New England Cable News and is presently the Republican
commentator for WBUR-FM, a NPR station. He has written and produced programs for
ABC News’ “Nightline.” He has
been an Adjunct Scholar with the National Legal Center for the Public Interest, for whom
he co-edited, Citizen Suits and Qui Tam Actions: Private Enforcement of Public
Policy. He is the author of a
number of scholarly articles. He is
a Research Scholar at the Ethics
& Public Policy Center and a Research Candidate at the
Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis where he is writing Original Face:
Towards Psychoanalytic Theory for the Post-Secular Era. He has written on
politics for National Review Online. He has held appointments as Lecturer and
Research Scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health for over ten years where
he has taught and written on the federal policy development process. He has been
invited to present and respond to papers at a number of national and
international scholarly conferences.
Dr. Nuzzo founded The Colchester Group in 1990. It provides venture capital and
strategic analysis of public policy and business issues for clients in the
private and public sectors. Its
clients have included the NASD, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S.
Department of Defense, the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, McKinsey &
Co., UMass, InterMed Advisors, Venus Capital
private Equity Fund, Trippoak Capital, Beyond Spa, ChurchPlaza, Massachusetts
Medical Society, Khashoggi United Ltd., Coburn Ventures, and the Carthusian
Order. Its recent projects have
included leading an effort to revise regulations using economic analysis,
evaluating opportunities for privatization within a government agency, assisting
a multinational corporation explore joint venture opportunities using
public/private partnerships, raised money for a variety of start-up firms,
aiding a start-up publishing firm, analyzing investment opportunities for
venture firms, ehealth companies, and providing political and business planning
advice for corporations and professional associations. He is a member of board
and chair of the audit committees for several private corporations. He has been
a senior member of campaigns ranging from the White House to state reps and has
written a Working Paper for the President’s Commission to Study Capital
Budgeting.
In 1996, Dr. Nuzzo was named a Wasserstein Fellow at the Harvard Law School. He is a tutor at Leverett House of
Harvard College and currently co-chair of the Board of
Overseers for Walnut Hill
School, member of the Board
of Overseers (Finance and Audit Committee) of The New England Conservatory,
I/ACT, Eton College Development Committee and Project Canterbury. He has recently completed his term as
Clerk of the Vestry at the Church of the Advent in Boston.
He married Bryann Bromley, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of
Perinatology and Radiology at the Harvard Medical School in 1988 and they have three
children, Ben, Emma and Spenser. He
plays the ‘cello, polo and eventing poorly but enthusiastically.
