Martin Pillsbury

Department: Environment
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 617-933-0747

Biography:

Martin Pillsbury, Senior Environmental Advisor at MAPC, has been with MAPC since 1983. Since MAPC’s Environment Department was established in 2011, he managed all aspects of the agency’s environmental and water resources programs. He managed MAPC’s projects on climate adaptation planning, natural hazards mitigation planning, and technical assistance on stormwater management, Low Impact Development, and Green Infrastructure. He served as a gubernatorial appointee to the Water Management Advisory Committee, and as the House Speaker’s appointee to the legislative Water Infrastructure Finance Commission.

At the local level, Mr. Pillsbury has extensive experience in preparing groundwater and aquifer protection plans for dozens of communities across the MAPC region. He has managed technical assistance projects to develop stormwater management bylaws, as well as a project to establish a municipal stormwater enterprise fund.

In 2025 Mr. Pillsbury transitioned to the position of Senior Environmental Advisor, which includes continued management of projects on resilience, hazard mitigation, and MEPA reviews, as well as environmental policy and administrative coordination with the Environment Department and other MAPC departments.

Prior to joining MAPC, Mr. Pillsbury served as an environmental planner for Wallace, Floyd Associates where he worked on the state’s Long Range Water Supply Study 2020, and the New England River Basins Commission, where he produced a watershed plan for the Housatonic River basin, and assisted with a New England-wide study of hydropower. He began his career at the New Jersey office of Coastal Zone Management, assisting with development of the state’s first coastal zone management plan.

Mr. Pillsbury earned a Master of Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Environmental Studies from Rutgers University, New Jersey. Outside of his duties at MAPC, he teaches a college level course on water resources management for the Massachusetts Marine Studies Consortium. He was invited to present to the United Nations Symposium on Water and the City in Paris, France in 1997 and to the American Planning Association’s national conference in 2008.