Edward Marchant

Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design (retired)

Edward Marchant served as an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) for forty years where he taught courses jointly offered at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) on real estate development and finance fundamentals and on the development, financing, and management of mixed-income and affordable housing. He continued to teach his jointly offered affordable and mixed-income housing course for an additional six years as a Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design at GSD where he also participated in several Executive Education programs including GSD’s Advanced Management Development Program (AMDP). Mr. Marchant continues to teach in the Harvard Business School/GSD Real Estate Management Program (REM). Mr. Marchant is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Business School.

Mr. Marchant has been actively involved with the development of residential and commercial real estate for over five decades. As the Director of Development at Greater Boston Community Development, Inc., now known as The Community Builders (TCB), Mr. Marchant worked with a wide range of community-based housing sponsors in the development of numerous affordable and mixed-income housing projects throughout Greater Boston. His involvement with mixed-income housing and public housing continued as a Vice President at John M. Corcoran & Co., where he also worked on several commercial projects. As an independent real estate advisor since 1990, Mr. Marchant has worked with a variety of private, public, and institutional clients on assignments ranging from the development of a single asset to the planning and development of large-scale, mixed-use projects. However, the primary focus of his real estate consulting has been on providing strategic and implementation consulting services to private developers of mixed-income rental and ownership residential projects in Massachusetts. 

Mr. Marchant served on the Board of Directors for TCB (a non-profit organization) for twenty-three years and continues to serve as a non-Board member of TCB’s Asset & Property Management Committee.