Reynold Levy

Dr. Reynold Levy "has been the President of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts since March 1, 2002.

"He has been President of the International Rescue Committee (1997-2002), the senior officer of AT&T in charge of government relations (1994-1996), President of the AT&T Foundation (1984-1996), Executive Director of the 92nd Street Y (1977-1984), and Staff Director of the Task Force on the New York City Fiscal Crisis.

"A graduate of Hobart College, Dr. Levy holds a law degree from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia. He has served as a consultant, volunteer, and Board member of numerous nonprofit and profit organizations, including the Manhattan Theatre Club, The Municipal Art Society of New York, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Grove Foundation, The Charles R. Bronfman Foundation and the Consortium for the Advancement of Private Higher Education. Levy is currently a member of the Board of Overseers of the International Rescue Committee, a member of the Advisory Board of the Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy, a trustee and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Institute for International Economics, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Century Association. ...

"Levy was recently a Senior Lecturer at The Harvard Business School, and has also taught law, political science and nonprofit administration at Columbia and New York Universities and at the City University of New York. His alma mater, Hobart College, recently honored him with its Alumni Medal of Excellence, awarded to only twenty graduates in the 125 year history of the school and the International Rescue Committee bestowed on him its coveted Freedom Award.

"Dr. Levy is married to Elizabeth Cooke, formerly Executive Director of the Parks Council of New York and President of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and currently a trustee of New Yorkers for Parks and El Museo del Barrio." 

He is a trustee of Third Way organization. 


 * Board of Overseers, International Rescue Committee
 * Director, Center for Global Development
 * Former Advisory Board Member, Center for Preventive Action

Publications

 * Reynold Levy, "Nearing the Crossroads: Contending Approaches to American Foreign Policy",Free Press of MacMillan, 1975.
 * Reynold Levy, "Give and Take: A Candid Account of Corporate Philanthropy", Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999, 235 pages.

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