DBT40 Honoree: Chase Barnes – Delaware Business Times [Video]

Title: Associate Policy Scientist

Workplace: University of Delaware’s Biden School of Public Policy and Administration’s Institute for Public Administration

Age: 30

As a founding member of a grant assistance program at the University of Delaware, Chase Barnes plays a leading role in helping local governments secure federal- and state-level funding opportunities.

Barnes works as an associate policy scientist at the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration’s Institute for Public Administration, where he works directly with municipalities pursuing large infrastructure projects to draft, submit and manage grant applications. 

The native Delaware lived out-of-state, including time spent in Australia working in government, for many years but returned in 2018 and accepted a position as the first building coordinator for the newly constructed Tower at STAR. While attending a master’s program at the Biden School in 2021-2022, he also served as a local government management fellow for the City of Dover and as a legislative fellow for …