Edward Itta served as mayor of the North Slope Borough of Alaska from 2005 to 2011. Over the past two decades, he has held a variety of leadership positions for the regional government, including chief administrative officer, public works director, planning director and director of capital improvement program management.
He has held management and liaison positions for subsidiaries of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC), including Arctic Slope World Services and the Arctic Slope Consulting Group, where he helped coordinate the North Slope village water and sewer construction program. He was president of LCMF, a design and engineering subsidiary of UIC, the village corporation in Barrow, Alaska. He served on the boards of directors of UIC and Eskimo’s Incorporated, a subsidiary of ASRC.
Mr. Itta is very active in community affairs and public policy. He is a past president of Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska, the U.S. arm of the international organization representing the world’s Inuit (Eskimo) people. He is currently the local government representative for Alaska on the Outer Continental Shelf Policy Committee. He is a past president and current member of the Barrow Whaling Captains Association and a past commissioner and vice-chairman of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, of which he is also a current member. Mr. Itta served as president of the North Slope Borough School Board and was vice-chairman of the federal government’s subsistence advisory council for northern Alaska.
Mr. Itta trained as an electronics technician at the Griswold Institute in Cleveland and in the U.S. Navy.
