Ameya Pawar

Ameya Pawar
Pawar speaking at a Chicago street dedication in 2015
City of Chicago Alderman from the 47th Ward
Incumbent
Assumed office May 16, 2011 (2011-05-16)
Preceded by	Eugene Schulter
Personal details
Born	(1980-04-22) April 22, 1980 (age 36) Chicago, Illinois
Political party	Democratic
Residence	Chicago, Illinois
Alma mater	Missouri Valley College (B.A.) Illinois Institute of Technology (M.P.A.) University of Chicago (M.S., M.A.)

Ameya Pawar (born April 22, 1980) is the alderman for the 47th Ward of the City of Chicago and the first declared Democratic candidate in the 2018 Illinois gubernatorial election. He was first elected in the 2011 municipal elections, and was elected to a second term on February 24, 2015. Pawar's 2015 re-election was secured with over 82% of the vote, the largest margin in the election cycle. In 2014, 2015, and 2016, Pawar was voted 'Best Alderman' by the readers of the Chicago Reader. Pawar is the first Indian American and Asian American in Chicago City Council history.

Prior to his election, Pawar was on staff at Northwestern University in the Office of Emergency Management. At Northwestern, he was responsible for the development of a university-wide business continuity program. While working at Northwestern University, he and two of his classmates from the University of Chicago were awarded a contract from Taylor and Francis to write a textbook based on their work in emergency management. The textbook is based on a model Ameya developed with two of his classmates at the University of Chicago's MSTRM program — the model is called Social Intelligence. Their work calls for the real-time aggregation of data to develop composite views of communities to better inform emergency preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery activities. Pawar and his co-authors have presented their work at annual Federal Emergency Management Agency conferences and other national conferences since 2008. He holds a M.S. in Threat and Response Management from the University of Chicago and a master's degree in Public Administration from the Illinois Institute of Technology. The textbook was released on December 29, 2014.

He is enrolled in a third master's degree program at the University of Chicago in the school of Social Service Administration. In 2009, Ameya was a US State Department Scholar. In 2011, Pawar was named to the Crains Chicago Business 40 under 40 list. He was also recognized by the New Leaders Council as an emerging leader under 40 in 2011. In 2012, he was named an Edgar Fellow by the University of Illinois.