Matthew Dalbey

Dr. Matthew Dalbey is a proven thought leader in developing community-driven economic revitalization strategies at the local, state, and federal level. These strategies focus on identifying economic drivers, build on existing assets, and support economic growth that improves environmental and human health outcomes. As of March 2025, he is the founder and principal of Corner Shop Strategies, a consulting firm that creates innovative solutions to community and economic development challenges.  Between 2004 and 2025 he was a career public servant and senior executive in the policy office at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Before joining EPA, he was a faculty member in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Jackson State University in Jackson, MS.

During his final years at EPA his primary focus was on the energy sector transformation and how federal agencies could support economic revitalization and diversification in the communities most impacted by this ongoing change. From 2014 to 2022 he led EPA’s Office of Sustainable Communities (later renamed Office of Community Revitalization). He is also an adjunct lecturer of public policy with the College of William & Mary’s Washington Semester Program.

He has a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from Columbia University in the City of New York, two master’s degrees from the University of Virginia, and a bachelor’s degree from the College of William & Mary. He has three twenty-something children and lives in Silver Spring, MD.