Board Member Bio
NHSEA board members biographies are provided for those members who are up for election.
Ben Frost
Ben Frost is the Director of Public Affairs at New Hampshire Housing, where he coordinates legislative matters at the state and federal levels, and provides direct technical assistance to municipalities that want to develop regulations to promote affordable housing; he serves as New Hampshire HousingÕs representative on the NH Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Energy Board. Previously, he was a Senior Planner with the NH Office of Energy and Planning, he was the executive director of the Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission, and he was also a planner and administrator in local and regional government in New Hampshire and elsewhere. Ben is an attorney and is the chairman of the Municipal Section of the New Hampshire Bar Association and is a founding director of the NH Municipal Lawyers Association. He serves on the executive boards of the NH Planners Association and the Northern New England Chapter of the American Planning Association and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Ben holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Geography (with a Soviet/Russian focus) from Colgate University and Syracuse University, respectively and a law degree from Cornell Law School with a concentration in business law and regulation.
