Anthony Shorris
| Anthony E. Shorris | |
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| First Deputy Mayor of New York City | |
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Assumed office January 1, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Patricia Harris |
| Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey | |
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In office January 1, 2007 – April 24, 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Kenneth J. Ringler, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Christopher O. Ward |
| Commissioner of the Department of Finance of the City of New York | |
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In office December 1, 1988 – December 31, 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Stanley Grayson |
| Succeeded by | Carol O'Cleireacain |
| Personal details | |
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Anthony Ernest Shorris March 7, 1957 New York, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Laurino (m. 1993) |
| Children | 1 |
| Residence | New York, New York |
| Education |
Harvard University (AB) Princeton University (MPA) |
Anthony Ernest Shorris (born March 7, 1957) is an American civil servant, educator, health care professional, and former Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. On December 4, 2013, New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio announced the appointment of Shorris to be his first deputy mayor.
Shorris was born in New York City to noted author and humanitarian Earl Shorris and author Sylvia Shorris. 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. He lives with wife author Maria Laurino and their son Michael in New York City.
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. Shorris would then consult with Taft-Hartley funds on health care management issues, including the 1199 National Benefit Fund. From 2010 until 2013, Shorris served as the Vice Dean, Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff of the NYU Langone Medical Center.
From 1991 to 1995, Shorris served as First Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority. 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 and resigned when David Paterson succeeded Spitzer. During his tenure, the agency would acquire Stewart Airport and continue to reconstruct the World Trade Center. 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.
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. 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. 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.
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