Anthony Shorris

Anthony Ernest Shorris (born March 7, 1957) is an American civil servant, educator, health care professional. He is a former executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey[2] and a former first deputy mayor of New York City.[3] He retired from New York City government in 2017 to teach at Princeton University.[4]

Anthony E. Shorris
First Deputy Mayor of New York City
In office January 1, 2014 – December 31, 2017
Appointed by	Bill de Blasio
Preceded by	Patricia Harris
Succeeded by	Dean Fuleihan
Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
In office January 1, 2007 – April 24, 2008
Appointed by	Eliot Spitzer
Preceded by	Kenneth J. Ringler, Jr.
Succeeded by	Christopher O. Ward
Commissioner of the New York City Department of Finance
In office December 1, 1988 – December 31, 1989
Appointed by	Edward I. Koch
Preceded by	Stanley Grayson
Succeeded by	Carol O'Cleireacain
Personal details
Born	Anthony Ernest Shorris March 7, 1957 New York, New York
Nationality	American
Spouse(s)	Maria Laurino (m. 1993)
Children	1
Residence	New York, New York
Education	Harvard University (AB)[1] Princeton University (MPA)[1]

Early life and education

Shorris was born in New York City to noted author and humanitarian Earl Shorris and author Sylvia Shorris.[5] A graduate of Collegiate School (New York City), 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.[6]

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.[7] Shorris would then consult with Taft-Hartley funds on health care management issues, including the 1199 National Benefit Fund.[8] From 2010 until 2013, Shorris served as the Vice Dean, Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff of the NYU Langone Medical Center.[9]

Transportation and infrastructure

From 1991 to 1995, Shorris served as First Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority.[10] Shorris then served as the 11th Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 2007 to 2008.[2] He was nominated to the position by Governor Eliot Spitzer and resigned when David Paterson succeeded Spitzer. He was succeeded by Paterson appointee Christopher O. Ward.[11] During his tenure, the agency would acquire Stewart Airport and continue to reconstruct the World Trade Center. 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.[12]

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 Harold O. Levy and Joel I. Klein.[13] 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.[14] Shorris taught classes on education economics and policy during his tenure on the faculty of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and acted as co-editor on the Brookings Institution’s publication in The Future of Children series, Excellence in the Classroom.[15]

Until his appointment as First Deputy Mayor, Shorris served as Vice Dean of the NYU School of Medicine. 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 Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School 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.[16] He is currently John Weinberg/Goldman Sachs Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.[17]

Finance and management

From 1984 to 1988, Shorris served as New York City's deputy budget director at the New York City Mayor's Office of Management and Budget (OMB), acting as an architect of Mayor Edward I. Koch's Ten Year Housing Plan.[18] Shorris would go on to serve as City's Finance Commissioner from 1987 to 1989 under the Koch administration.[19] Shorris currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. [20] He is also a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company. [21]

Other work and publications

Shorris is a member of the Executive Committee of the Regional Plan Association [22] and the Advisory Board of the Independent Budget Office of the City of New York.[23] 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.[24][25] Shorris's work on education, infrastructure, and financial management has been published in The New York Times, The Newark Star-Ledger, The Nation, and The Century Foundation.[26][27][28]

Personal life

He lives with wife author Maria Laurino and their son in New York City.[29]

References

1. "Mr. Anthony E. Shorris". University Transportation Research Center. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
2. "Anthony Shorris". The Nation. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
3. "De Blasio Picks Ex-Director of Port Authority to Be Top Aide". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
4. "RPA Board of Directors". RPA. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
5. "Earl Shorris, 75, Dies; Fought Poverty With Knowledge". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
6. "Anthony Shorris". Businessweek. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
7. "Metro Briefing". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
8. "Spitzer Names Port Authority Head and Fills 11 Other Top Positions". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
9. "Anthony Shorris". NYU Langone Medical Center. Archived from the original on 8 November 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
10. "ANTHONY E. SHORRIS ELECTED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY". The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
11. "A New Governor, Yes, but an Old Port Authority". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
12. "Anthony E. Shorris Named New Director of NYU Wagner Rudin Center". New York University. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
13. "Metro Briefing". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
14. "Albany in His Sights, Spitzer Sets to Work Assembling His Cabinet". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
15. "Journal Issue: Excellence in the Classroom". Princeton University. Archived from the original on 2010-12-21. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
16. "Anthony Shorris (MPA '79) authors Open Society Institute report on Iraq's finances". Princeton University. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
17. "RPA Board of Directors". RPA. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
18. "Anthony E. Shorris". Transportation Experts Blog. Archived from the original on 3 September 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
19. "Deputy Mayor for Finance To Leave New York City Job". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
20. "Upstate New York Regional Advisory Board Adds a New Member". Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
21. "United Hospital Fund Elects Five New Board Members with Medical, Consulting, and Public Health Expertise". Philanthropy New York. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
22. "Board of Directors". Regional Plan Association. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
23. "Advisory Board". Independent Budget Office of the City of New York. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
24. "United Hospital Fund Elects Five New Board Members with Medical, Consulting, and Public Health Expertise". Philanthropy New York. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
25. "Board of Directors". New York City Ballet. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
26. "BREAKING DOWN WALLS: INSTITUTIONAL BARRIERS TO INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT". The Century Foundation. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
27. "Watch Out for Stimulus Profiteers". The Nation. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
28. "What Kind of People Are We?". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
29. "WEDDINGS/VOWS; Maria Laurino and Anthony Shorris". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 March 2013.