LMDC appoints Stefan Pryor as new president.LMDC LMDC Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (New York City, NY, USA) LMDC Lake Merritt Dance Center (Oakland, California) LMDC Logistics Management Development Course LMDC Laser Motion & Development Company Chairman John C. Whitehead John Cunningham Whitehead (b. April 2 1922), is currently the chairman of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation (WTC Memorial Foundation), and former chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation until he resigned in May of 2006. announced the appointment of Stefan Pryor, senior vice-president for policy and programs, as President of the Lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North Development Corporation. As the first employee of the LMDC, Pryor has helped lead the agency since its inception in November of 2001. Pryor has served the agency's Chairman and President as their top deputy. Pryor will serve as LMDC President on an interim basis until the LMDC board, at its monthly meeting next week, officially appoints him President. Pryor replaces departing President Kevin M. Rampe. Chairman Whitehead said, "Stefan Pryor was the first employee of the LMDC. He was on the scene before the agency had an office, a staff, or a budget. He helped to form the organization and, ever since, has helped to lead it. Given his experience, talent, and intelligence, Stefan will be an outstanding LMDC President." Governor George E. Pataki said, "Stefan Pryor has helped lead the rebuilding efforts since the inception of the LMDC. His experience, qualifications and commitment to revitalizing Lower Manhattan will make him an exceptional President of the LMDC. I am confident that Stefan is the right person for the job." Pryor, a Lower Manhattan resident, previously served as a vice president at the Partnership for New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , the citywide business organization. After September 11, Pryor coordinated the Partnership's efforts to get downtown businesses back up and running. Pryor helped form ReStart Central, which provided discounted and donated goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. to 9/11-affected businesses. Pryor previously worked in city government in New Haven, Connecticut While a student at Yale College, Yale Law School Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1843, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D., and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars and several legal research centers. , and the Yale Teacher Preparation Program, Pryor co-founded Amistad Academy, an acclaimed charter middle school in New Haven that has recently been invited to replicate in New York City. Amistad's expansion organization, Achievement First, will open schools in Brooklyn's East New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods this September. In 2000, Pryor was named the first recipient of Yale's John V. Lindsay Public Service Fellowship, which was created in honor of former New York City Mayor Lindsay. |
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