Bill Regan has been a member of the board since January 2022. He leads the work of our business development committee, which focuses on new business opportunities that strengthen the organization and are consistent with the paper’s mission.

He has been an active volunteer in local organizations since he and his wife Nina moved to Charlotte in 2019. In addition to his membership on the paper’s board, he was previously chair of the trails committee and remains a member of that group. He also serves as a board member of Local Motion, Vermont’s leading cycling and pedestrian advocacy group, where he is treasurer and member of the finance and leadership committees.

“I started volunteering in high school at our local hospital and community theater in Pennsylvania,” Bill Regan said. “Volunteering eventually took a back seat because of the demands of work and family.”

Since moving to Vermont, volunteering, he said, “has been front and center.” He feels a “strong moral obligation to contribute whatever time, energy and talents I have to the betterment of the world around me.”

He is a senior fellow at the Energy Action Network, where his work focuses on objective and non-partisan analysis on clean energy and greenhouse gas emissions mitigation. He is a graduate seminar instructor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and guest-lecturer at the University of Vermont. These activities follow a storied career in the federal government where Regan spent three-plus decades as a public servant in the field of foreign policy and national security as a researcher, writer, editor and senior executive.

The Regans have two grown daughters and two granddaughters whom they enjoy visiting as much as they can. Bill Regan also enjoys outdoor sports like cycling, hiking, cross-country skiing and kayaking. One of the reasons they were drawn to Charlotte was the many outdoor offerings here.

“The Charlotte News is one of the reasons why Charlotte is a community and not just a place on the map,” Regan said.

His role on the paper is to help “ensure that Charlotters continue to have a source of rigorous information that elevates the important policy debates in town and brings us together as people.”

He said, “Given the polarization in our national politics and the disinformation and personal attacks that can degrade even our local conversations, it has never been more important to have The Charlotte News.”