Regan began teaching university level courses in government at various SUNY colleges and later became Buffalo City Councilman-at-Large and the President of Bison Liquor Company, Inc. in Buffalo, N.Y. He left in 1971 to become the Erie County Executive for seven years, running the fourth largest government unit in New York with 9,000 employees, providing health, library, community college and other urban services to the Buffalo Metropolitan area. In 1978 Regan ran for New York Comptroller and won. As Comptroller, he was responsible for 2,400 employees, accounting, auditing and financial oversight functions for state and local governments, with a special emphasis on New York City during the fiscal crisis. He was a member of the Presidential Commission of Industrial Competitiveness.
Regan left the position in 1993 to become the president at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College in New York, N.Y. He has been published in numerous scholarly journals and newspaper editorial pages and has served on numerous for-profit and nonprofit boards of directors. He is currently the President of Baruch College, which includes the largest school of business in the U.S.
Regan resides in New York, N.Y.
Contribution: President of Baruch College, Former Comptroller of the State of New York
Hometown: Buffalo, N.Y.
College Activities: Newman Club, Glee Club, Gamma Micron Tau, Rushing Chairman and President of his fraternity, Kappa Alpha
Major: Economics
Other Education: SUNY Buffalo School of Law (J.D. cum laude, Buffalo, N.Y.)