Urban planner, practitioner and professor. Teaches “Transforming the Urban Economy” and “Arts, the Artist and Urban Revitalization” at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Chair-elect of the International Downtown Association (IDA) and the past co-chair of the NYC BID Association. President of the Times Square Alliance since 2002. Prior to joining the Alliance, he was the Founder and Director of Partnerships for Parks, which works to support New York City’s neighborhood parks and which won an Innovations in Government Award from the JFK School of Government at Harvard for its work to restore the Bronx River. He has also worked at New York City’s Economic Development Corporation, The New York City Charter Revision Commission, and was briefly the Nationals Editor at the Mexico City News, an English language newspaper in Mexico.