Stony Brook University President Maurie McInnis placed #40 on City & State’s Long Island Power 100. The listing highlights the most powerful political figures in Nassau and Suffolk counties – elected officials, government appointees, business and labor leaders, academics and advocates – and how they compared with each other in 2020.

President Maurie McInnis
According to the City & State listing, as the University’s sixth president, “she will be expected to play a key role in economic development on Long Island as well as carry out Stony Brook’s role co-managing Brookhaven National Laboratory.”
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