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Ron Epstein joins Ostroff Associates with more than 30 years of experience in transportation and infrastructure policy, legislation, and fiscal management for New York State. He spent the majority of his career in executive leadership roles at the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT).

At Ostroff Associates, Ron advises a diverse portfolio of clients across the transportation sector, including public transit operators and private infrastructure developers, to better navigate New York’s complex legislative, budgetary, and regulatory landscape. He helps clients structure and advance major capital projects, secure state and federal funding, and align their priorities with long-term transportation, climate, and economic development goals, drawing on his decades of experience in multimodal planning, finance, and policy implementation.

In December 2017, Ron was appointed Executive Deputy Commissioner at the NYSDOT, overseeing the development and implementation of integrated multimodal transportation policies, strategic planning initiatives, and long-term financing strategies. Previously, as NYSDOT’s Chief Financial Officer, he managed the agency’s $10 billion annual budget, developed multi-year capital financing plans, and advised both the Transportation Commissioner and the Governor’s Office on fiscal, legislative, and infrastructure policy matters. Before joining NYSDOT in the early 1990s, Ron served as a Legislative Analyst for Assembly Speaker Mel Miller and as a Transportation Program Associate with the New York State Legislative Commission on Expenditure Review.

Nationally recognized as an authority on federal transportation policy and funding, Ron has played a key role in federal surface transportation authorization and annual Congressional appropriations for decades. He has chaired numerous national committees for the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), served as a panelist on multiple Transportation Research Board (TRB) studies, acted as the Governor’s designee to the Northeast Corridor Commission, and served as Secretary to both the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Capital Program Review Board (CPRB) and the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC). He currently serves on the Board of the New York Public Transit Association.

Ron holds a master’s in public administration and public policy from Binghamton University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from SUNY Cortland.