James Aloisi

James Aloisi is a Boston-based writer, commentator and consultant with a specialty in transportation planning and policy, and law.

Aloisi is the founding partner of the Pemberton Square Group, a consulting firm providing clients with advice in areas such as real estate, transportation, and communications. He served as Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation from 2008-09 and was member of the Board of the Massachusetts Port Authority and Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. Aloisi is a former partner at Hill & Barlow and Goulston & Storrs.

Aloisi is a regular contributor to Massachusetts's Commonwealth Magazine, published by the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, "an independent think tank uniting non-partisan research, civic journalism and independent polling" typically identified as MassINC. He is the author of three well-regarded books on significant political and social figures and moments in the history of Massachusetts and the United States of America.

Aloisi is also a member on the board of Boston-based transit policy advocacy group TransitMatters.

• The Big Dig (2004) was a brief history of Boston's Big Dig, the largest public works project in American history.
• Magic in the Air: The Times & Life of Boston's Honey Fitz (2007) recounts the ascendancy of John Francis Fitzgerald, grandfather of John F Kennedy. Fitzgerald's political career played out during a critical crossroads in Boston politics.
• The Vidal Lecture: Sex and Politics in Massachusetts and the Persecution of Chief Justice Robert Bonin (2011) documents the turbulence and discord that marked a struggle between reformers and the established political leadership, and a larger struggle between two generations of political leaders.
• "Massport at 60" (2018) commemorates the 60th anniversary of the Massachusetts Port Authority and documents its history across local and state politics.