Paul A Bishop

Paul Bishop leads the local government practice at CGR. He is a public policy researcher with a passion for addressing public safety issues and improving government operations. He directs projects involving a wide range of issues related to local government operations, public safety services, and community well-being. He approaches each project with the understanding that each client and circumstance is unique. His experience in government operations spans all aspects of public safety, organizational efficiency, financial analysis and local government consolidation. He brings his experience of emergency response, system coordination and thorough analysis to each CGR project on which he works. He also brings the perspective of being a supervisor, educator and care provider to each aspect of analysis His expertise includes program assessment, strategic planning and accreditation processes.

His experience with government management issues is diverse, including evaluating service options, strategic planning and internal efficiencies for municipalities in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. In New York, he has worked in more than 20 counties from Chautauqua to Essex to Nassau. He has worked with communities of several hundred to several hundred thousand to help address the diverse array of challenges they face.

Mr. Bishop earned his masters of public administration at the State University of New York at Brockport, and his bachelor’s degree in political science and organizational psychology from the University of Rochester.