LICBDC Business Breakfast, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 8 - 9:30 AM

Christopher Ward, Executive Director of Port Authority of NY & NJ

Mr. Ward will discuss transportation infrastructure plans affecting Long Island City and Queens.

Networking and continental breakfast. $20 members, $30 nonmembers. Please contact Indra Smith at 718.786.5300 x 21 or register online. Riverview Restaurant, 2-01 50th Ave. LIC, NY 11101.

http://www.riverviewny.com

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Executive Director Christopher O. Ward

Christopher O. Ward is currently the Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (and President of the Port Authority's wholly owned entities: Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation, the Newark Legal and Communications Center Urban Renewal Corporation, and the New York and New Jersey Railroad Corporation). He was appointed on May 22, 2008. This is Mr. Ward's second tenure at the Port Authority. He previously served as Chief of Planning and External Affairs, as well as Director of Port Redevelopment from 1997 to 2002.

Mr. Ward's previous positions included stints as Managing Director of The General Contractors Association of New York, Inc., Chief Executive Officer of American Stevedoring, Inc., as Commissioner of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for the Bloomberg Administration, as Senior Vice President for Transportation and Commerce at the NYC Economic Development Corporation, as Assistant Commissioner at the Department of Telecommunications and Energy and as Director of Research at the Department of Consumer Affairs. Mr. Ward holds a Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University's Divinity School. Mr. Ward has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

http://www.panynj.gov/abouttheportauthority/governance/executivedirector/