Anthony Ernest Shorris (born March 7, 1957) is an American civil servant, educator, health care professional. He is a former executive director of the

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and a former first deputy mayor of New York City. He retired from New York City government in 2017 to teach at Princeton University.

Early life and education

Shorris was born in New York City to noted author and humanitarian Earl Shorris and author Sylvia Shorris. A graduate of

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, Shorris received his AB in Government in 1977 from Harvard College and a Master's in Public Affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1979.

Career

Health care

Shorris first worked in health care at the non-profit organization HealthFirst Inc. where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from 1995-2000. Shorris would then consult with Taft-Hartley funds on health care management issues, including the 1199 National Benefit Fund. From 2010 until 2013, Shorris served as the Vice Dean, Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff of the NYU Langone Medical Center.

Transportation and infrastructure

From 1991 to 1995, Shorris served as First Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority, under Stanley Brezenoff. Shorris then served as the 11th Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 2007 to 2008. He was nominated to the position by Governor Eliot Spitzer. One of Governor Paterson's first moves as Governor was to fire Anthony Shorris. He was succeeded by Paterson appointee

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. Subsequently, Shorris ran the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy at New York University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and consulted with various government agencies on infrastructure policy.

Education

From 2000 to 2003, Shorris served as Deputy Chancellor for Operations and Policy in the Board of Education of the City of New York under chancellors

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and Joel I. Klein. In 2006 to 2007, Shorris also led the development of Governor Eliot Spitzer’s education reform initiative while serving as senior policy advisor to the transition. Shorris taught classes on education economics and policy during his tenure on the faculty of the Woodrow Wilson School at

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, and acted as co-editor on the Brookings Institution’s publication in The Future of Children series, Excellence in the Classroom. Until his appointment as First Deputy Mayor, Shorris served as Vice Dean of the

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. Prior to that, he was a member of the faculty of the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and Director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy. He taught courses in transportation policy and crisis management. From 2003 to 2007, he taught at

’s

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of Public and International Affairs, where he also directed the Policy Research Institute for the Region (PRIOR). He held the Frederick H. Schultz Class of 1951 Professor of International Economic Policy chair at Princeton during 2003 to 2004. He is currently John Weinberg/Goldman Sachs Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

Finance and management

From 1984 to 1988, Shorris served as New York City's deputy budget director at the

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(OMB), acting as an architect of Mayor

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's Ten Year Housing Plan. Shorris would go on to serve as City's Finance Commissioner from 1987 to 1989 under the Koch administration. Shorris currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is also a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company.

Other work and publications

Shorris is a member of the Executive Committee of the

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and the Advisory Board of the Independent Budget Office of the City of New York. He is a member of the board of the United Hospital Fund of New York and represents the city on the board of the NEw York City Ballet. Shorris's work on education, infrastructure, and financial management has been published in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and

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Personal life

He lives with wife author Maria Laurino and their son in New York City.

References

Bibliography

* Paterson, David (2020). ''Black, Blind, & in Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity''. New York: Skyhorse Publishing

External links

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