McPherson Named Assistant Vice President in Office of Government Affairs

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Ryan A. McPherson has been named assistant vice president for government affairs in the Office of Government Affairs at the University at Buffalo.

McPherson is responsible primarily for directing UB's local government affairs, monitoring legislation at both the federal and state levels, organizing government events, coordinating with the UB Office of University Advancement in developing alumni relations and assisting the associate vice president of government affairs with UB's state-relations program.

A graduate of the UB Law School, McPherson spent three years as a legislative analyst in UB's Office of Government Affairs, promoting the university's legislative agenda directly to the Western New York federal and state delegations, as well as monitoring and assessing state and federal higher-education legislation.

A graduate of the University of New Hampshire, McPherson worked as a legislative fellow during the 1995-96 legislative sessions in the New Hampshire State Senate. He also spent four years in Washington, D.C., working at Public Campaign, where he briefed members of congress, legislative staff and agency officials on a wide array of campaign-finance initiatives, both at the state and federal levels.