Richard Kerbel is a local government consultant and interim town manager of Narragansett, Rhode Island. During his thirty-five-year career in local government, Kerbel has served as Interim Finance Director/Senior Advisor to Providence Mayor Angel Taveras and Director of Administration for Mayor David N. Cicilline. Kerbel has also been Town Manager for Bridgewater, Massachusetts; Coventry, Rhode Island; North Kingstown, Rhode Island; and Fallsburg, NY.

Kerbel earned a DE from Texas A & M University,  an MPA from University of Colorado at Boulder; BS, Tufts University. In 2002, Kerbel received the Robert M. Goodrich Distinguished Public Service Award from the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council.