Senior Faculty Fellow

Ned Lamont founded his own company, Lamont Digital Systems, in 1984. Now known as Campus Televideo, the company serves over 150 campuses across the country with foreign language, distance learning, and cable television services.

In addition to helping raise his children and running a business, Lamont has brought innovation to his many community activities. He spent eight years in local government; chaired the state investment advisory council, overseeing a $20 billion pension fund; served on many civic boards; and has served as a policy member at the Brookings Institution. He has also run a business training program for Bridgeport High School students.

In 2006, Lamont energized the grassroots and netroots and defeated incumbent Senator Joseph Lieberman in the Democratic primary, becoming the Democratic candidate for Senate in Connecticut. Tens of thousands of new voters registered as Democrats for the primary. 

Lamont served as a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics in Spring 2007, and currently serves as a board member for the Progressive States Network. He is in the process of setting up a policy center at Central Connecticut State University to work on state issues such as healthcare, education, transportation, and tax reform.

Lamont is a graduate of both Harvard and the Yale School of Management, and is a former newspaper editor.

Lamont and his wife, Annie, live in Fairfield County with their three teenage children.