Dan Lurie

Dan Lurie is the President & Chief Executive Officer of Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC), an independent nonpartisan regional planning organization; a role he assumed in September 2024.  As President & CEO, Lurie provides strategic leadership to MPC as the organization builds on 90 years of impact as a leader that, through coalitions and partnerships, transforms policies and practices to advance racial and economic justice in our communities, infrastructure, and public systems. 

Dan Lurie is a nationally recognized policy leader who has crafted and implemented innovative inclusive economic growth and social safety net programs at the highest levels of government and civil society. An attorney, he is a veteran of Chicago’s City Hall, the Obama-Biden White House, the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Washington, D.C. think tank New America, and the Chicago Transit Authority.  Dan most recently founded the Municipal Governance Initiative that is addressing the state capacity crisis threatening local governments’ ability to solve critical social problems.  Prior to MGI, Dan was the City of Chicago’s Chief of Policy where he oversaw the City’s policy design and program implementation, from democracy reform to housing to transportation and land use to environment to the care economy, including former Chicago Mayor Lightfoot’s whole-of-government project to reduce racialized intergenerational poverty and broader economic insecurity while strengthening the social safety net. 

Dan is known for fostering partnerships that advance bold policies confronting race and gender inequities, and for reaching new consensus that, as he likes to say, “expands the aperture of the possible”.  

He is a graduate of the University of Michigan (B.A. and JD) and lives with his family on Chicago’s Northwest Side.