Anthony E. Shorris

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Anthony E. Shorris is Professor of Practice at the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and serves as Director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. He is also a Fellow at The Century Foundation in New York City. Previously, he served as the Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the nation's oldest public authority, managing the region's five airports, four port facilities, six interstate bridges and tunnels, the PATH commuter railroad, and the World Trade Center. He served as a senior policy adviser to the Spitzer-Paterson 2006 New York gubernatorial campaign and to governor-elect Spitzer's transition office. From 2003 to 2007, he served as the Director of Princeton University's Policy Research Institute for the Region at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs where he taught graduate courses in urban economic development, education policy, poverty, and crisis management. Shorris has also served as Deputy Chancellor of the nation's largest school system, New York City Board of Education, from 2001 to 2003. From 1990 to 1995, he was the First Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and he also has been chief operating officer of a multi-billion dollar nonprofit healthcare organization. He served as New York City's Commissioner of Finance from 1988 to 1989, and as the city�s deputy budget director from 1984 to 1988. Shorris has more than thirty years of experience in public and nonprofit management and has consulted for national and international foundations and nonprofit organizations on public management, education, public finance, health care, tax policy, economic development, housing, and infrastructure. He holds an AB from Harvard College and a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton University.