Anthony Shorris

Shorris was born in New York City to noted author and humanitarian Earl Shorris and author Sylvia Shorris.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/us/earl-shorris-who-fought-poverty-with-knowledge-dies-at-75.html |title=Earl Shorris, 75, Dies; Fought Poverty With Knowledge |work=The New York Times |date=2 June 2012 |access-date=31 March 2013|last1=Vitello |first1=Paul }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=38269787&privcapId=105606277&previousCapId=33169073&previousTitle=Streetline,%20Inc |title=Anthony Shorris |publisher=Businessweek |access-date=31 March 2013}}{{dead link|date=April 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

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.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/05/nyregion/metro-briefing.html |title=Metro Briefing |work=The New York Times |date=5 January 2001 |access-date=31 March 2013|last1=Ramirez |first1=Compiled by Anthony }} Shorris would then consult with Taft-Hartley funds on health care management issues, including the 1199 National Benefit Fund.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/16/nyregion/16spitzer.html?gwh=9848D07B541F67B31FE7C30BE3DE0FD0 |title=Spitzer Names Port Authority Head and Fills 11 Other Top Positions |work=The New York Times |date=16 December 2006 |access-date=31 March 2013|last1=Healy |first1=Patrick |last2=Neuman |first2=William }} From 2010 until 2013, Shorris served as the Vice Dean, Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff of the NYU Langone Medical Center.{{cite web|url=http://www.med.nyu.edu/people/anthony-shorris |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101108153053/http://www.med.nyu.edu/people/anthony-shorris |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 November 2010 |title=Anthony Shorris |publisher=NYU Langone Medical Center |access-date=31 March 2013 }}

From 1991 to 1995, Shorris served as First Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority, under Stanley Brezenoff.{{cite web |url=http://www.panynj.gov/press-room/press-item.cfm?headLine_id=836l |title=ANTHONY E. SHORRIS ELECTED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY |publisher=The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey |access-date=31 March 2013}} 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/nyregion/17authority.html|title=Paterson Seems Ready to Remove Port Director|newspaper=The New York Times|date=17 April 2008|last1=Belson|first1=Ken|last2=Hakim|first2=Danny}} He was succeeded by Paterson appointee Christopher O. Ward.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/nyregion/07about.html?fta=y%26pagewanted=print&_r=0 |title=A New Governor, Yes, but an Old Port Authority |work=The New York Times |date=7 May 2008 |access-date=31 March 2013|last1=Dwyer |first1=Jim }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2009/03/09/anthony_e_shorris_named_new.html |title=Anthony E. Shorris Named New Director of NYU Wagner Rudin Center |publisher=New York University |access-date=31 March 2013}}

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.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/nyregion/metro-briefing-new-york-manhattan-top-school-official-leaving.html |title=Metro Briefing |work=The New York Times |date=25 July 2003 |access-date=31 March 2013}} 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.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/nyregion/30cabinet.html?pagewanted=print&gwh=A8201B52895AAB6D1442014F86C4FE17 |title=Albany in His Sights, Spitzer Sets to Work Assembling His Cabinet |work=The New York Times |date=30 October 2006 |access-date=31 March 2013|last1=Hakim |first1=Danny }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://futureofchildren.org/futureofchildren/publications/journals/article/index.xml?journalid=34&articleid=73 |title=Journal Issue: Excellence in the Classroom |publisher=Princeton University |access-date=31 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101221230124/http://futureofchildren.org/futureofchildren/publications/journals/article/index.xml?journalid=34&articleid=73 |archive-date=2010-12-21 |url-status=dead }}

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.princeton.edu/webannounce/WWS_Headlines/Archived/2004/APR_Text.html |title=Anthony Shorris (MPA '79) authors Open Society Institute report on Iraq's finances |publisher=Princeton University |access-date=31 March 2013}} He is currently John Weinberg/Goldman Sachs Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.{{cite web |title=RPA Board of Directors |url=https://rpa.org/about/board |access-date=29 August 2020 |publisher=RPA}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://transportation.nationaljournal.com/contributors/anthony-e-shorris.php |title=Anthony E. Shorris |publisher=Transportation Experts Blog |access-date=31 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120903041507/http://transportation.nationaljournal.com/contributors/anthony-e-shorris.php |archive-date=3 September 2012 }} Shorris would go on to serve as City's Finance Commissioner from 1987 to 1989 under the Koch administration.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/09/nyregion/deputy-mayor-for-finance-to-leave-new-york-city-job.html |title=Deputy Mayor for Finance To Leave New York City Job |work=The New York Times |date=9 December 1988 |access-date=31 March 2013|last1=Levine |first1=Richard }} Shorris currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/ag_seconddistrict.html |title=Upstate New York Regional Advisory Board Adds a New Member |publisher=Federal Reserve Bank of New York |access-date=29 August 2020}} He is also a Partner at McKinsey & Company.{{cite web|url=https://philanthropynewyork.org/news/united-hospital-fund-elects-five-new-board-members-medical-consulting-and-public-health |title=United Hospital Fund Elects Five New Board Members with Medical, Consulting, and Public Health Expertise |date=22 July 2020 |publisher=Philanthropy New York |access-date=29 August 2020}}

Shorris is a member of the Executive Committee of the Regional Plan Association{{cite web |url=http://www.rpa.org/about/board.html |title=Board of Directors |publisher=Regional Plan Association |access-date=31 March 2013}} and the Advisory Board of the Independent Budget Office of the City of New York.{{cite web |url=http://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/aboutAdvisory.html |title=Advisory Board |publisher=Independent Budget Office of the City of New York |access-date=31 March 2013}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.nycballet.com/about-us/board-and-staff/board-of-directors/ |title=Board of Directors |publisher=New York City Ballet |access-date=29 August 2020}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://old.tcf.org/media-center/pdfs/pr155/shorris.pdf/++atfield++file |title=BREAKING DOWN WALLS: INSTITUTIONAL BARRIERS TO INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT |publisher=The Century Foundation |access-date=31 March 2013 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite magazine |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/watch-out-stimulus-profiteers |title=Watch Out for Stimulus Profiteers |date=21 February 2009 |publisher=The Nation |access-date=31 March 2013|last1=Shorris |first1=Anthony }}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/15/opinion/what-kind-of-people-are-we.html?gwh=F8ED4F686B6EF6C76909E4E378FC8ABC |title=What Kind of People Are We? |work=The New York Times |date=15 October 1990 |access-date=31 March 2013}}

He lives with wife author Maria Laurino and their son in New York City.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/19/style/weddings-vows-maria-laurino-and-anthony-shorris.html |title=WEDDINGS/VOWS; Maria Laurino and Anthony Shorris |work=The New York Times |date=19 December 1993 |access-date=31 March 2013|last1=Brady |first1=Lois Smith }}

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

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