Stephen Berger
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July 11, 1939 New York, New York, US |
| Residence | New York, New York |
| Alma mater | Brandeis University |
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| Spouse(s) | Cynthia Wainwright (married 1977) |
| Children | 2 |
Stephen Berger (born July 11, 1939) is an American entrepreneur, investment banker, civil servant and political advisor. His public service positions at the federal, state, and local levels for government agencies include: Chairman of the New York State Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century, Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Chairman of the United States Railway Association under President Jimmy Carter, and Executive Director of the New York Emergency Control Board for the City of New York.
He has served as CEO of both private and public organizations, as a board member, corporate director, and private equity investor as well as a Professor of Public Administration at New York University's Graduate School of Public Administration.
Mr. Berger was born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His father, Saul Berger, was a politically active lawyer who ran for State Senate and City Council as an anti-Tammany candidate. His mother, Paula Rosenzweig Berger, held a two-year term as a Democratic co-leader in the district.
Berger attended New York City public schools, and graduated with Honors in Science from Stuyvesant High School in 1955.
He went to college at Brandeis University in 1955 and graduated magna cum laude with honors in history in 1959. He also attended the University of Chicago on a fellowship to the Department of Political Science from 1959–1960.
Berger entered the political arena to work for the Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy presidential campaign in 1960. His public sector career began in 1964, when he ran a successful congressional campaign in the Bronx for the underdog Jonathan B. Bingham against Charles A. Buckley, a Bronx Democratic fixture and powerhouse. He served as Executive Assistant to Congressman Jonathan Bingham from 1964 to 1968.
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