Participated In
Governing a Diverse City in a Democratic Society
Date: January 18, 2007 from 8:50 AM to 9:30 AM
Location: Low Memorial Library
Description:
Presented by New York City Global Partners, in partnership with Columbia University
in the City of New York's World Leaders Forum
and the New York Immigration
Coalition.
This Forum brings together
governmental leaders, policy professionals, influential citizens, and renowned
intellectuals from 18 nations representing 26 cities to examine the challenges
and the solutions faced by diverse, democratic global cities. Mayor Michael
Bloomberg and his critical commissioners discuss the challenges in New York City and the
programmatic solutions that have been implemented to address the needs of
immigrant communities.
Presented by New York City Global Partners, in partnership with Columbia University
in the City of New York's World Leaders Forum
and the New York Immigration
Coalition.
This Forum brings together
governmental leaders, policy professionals, influential citizens, and renowned
intellectuals from 18 nations representing 26 cities to examine the challenges
and the solutions faced by diverse, democratic global cities. Mayor Michael
Bloomberg and his critical commissioners discuss the challenges in New York City and the
programmatic solutions that have been implemented to address the needs of
immigrant communities.
Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor of the City of New York
Michael R. Bloomberg is the
108th Mayor of the City of New York.
He was born on February 14, 1942 and raised in Medford, Massachusetts,
where his father was the bookkeeper at a local dairy. Mayor Bloomberg's thirst
for information and fascination with technology was evident at an early age,
and led him to Johns
Hopkins University,
where he parked cars and took out loans to finance his education. After his
college graduation, he gained an MBA from Harvard and in the summer of 1966, he
was hired by Salomon Brothers to work on Wall Street.
The Mayor quickly advanced
through the ranks, and became a partner in 1972. Soon after, he was supervising
all of Salomon's stock trading, sales and later, its information systems. He
was fired in 1981 after another company acquired Salomon. Michael Bloomberg
used his stake from the Salomon sale to start his own company. He created a
financial information computer that would collect and analyze different
combinations of past and present securities data and deliver it immediately to
the user. In 1990 Bloomberg LP entered the media business, launching a news
service, and then radio, television, Internet, and publishing operations.
As the company enjoyed
tremendous growth, he dedicated more of his time and energy to philanthropy and
civic affairs. His desire to improve education, advance medical research and
increase access to the arts, has provided the motivation for much of his
philanthropy. He funded relief programs for victims of domestic violence in New York City, sponsored the Children's
Health Fund's Mobile Medical Unit, and supported construction of new athletic
fields at city high schools throughout the five boroughs. He also served on the
boards of 20 different civic, cultural, educational and medical institutions.
The Mayor served as the
Chairman of the Board Trustees of Johns Hopkins University until May 2002.
Recently, he was honored by Johns Hopkins University,
when its School
of Hygiene and Public
Health was renamed "The Bloomberg School of Public Health."