The Park City Center for Public Policy

The Park City Policy Institute
Fall Meeting
September 20 - 21, 2007

Jim Souby

Jim Souby is president and CEO of the Park City Center for Public Policy, a non-profit center for public policy innovation comprised of both public and private sector leaders.  He has spent over 25 years working in state government and state government associations.  From 1990 – 2003, he served as executive director of the Western Governors Association which represented Governors from 18 states and 3 Pacific territories.

 He previously served as executive director of the Council of Governors Policy Advisors, a membership association of policy and planning directors serving the nation’s governors.   He also served as director of policy development and planning for the Governor of Alaska, and director of administrative services and economic research for the State of Alaska Department of Labor. Souby entered public service from the private sector where he was founder and a managing partner in a geological consulting firm and chief executive of a recreation company which owned and operated a remote fishing lodge in western Alaska.