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This panel consists of prominent alumni and
faculty who have been active in the governance and
management of New York City for decades. They will speak to
their own direct experience on issues of labor relations,
youth services, affordable housing and homelessness, with
the moderator and discussant placing these experiences in
the context of other challenges facing global cities in the
future.
Moderator: David N. Dinkins, 106th
Mayor of the City of New York, Professor in the Practice of
Public Affairs, SIPA; Host of the David N. Dinkins
Leadership and Public Policy Forum, SIPA; Senior Fellow at
the Center for Urban Research and Policy

Discussant: Ester Fuchs, Professor of International and
Public Affairs and Political Science at SIPA, previously
both the Founding Director at the Center for Urban Research
and Policy and Chair of Barnard’s Urban Studies Program

Alumni Panelists:
• Victor Gotbaum, MIA ‘50,
Senior Research Scholar, City University of New York
Graduate School & University Center

• Neil Hernandez, MPA ’88, Commissioner,
New York City Department of Juvenile Justice

• Bill de Blasio, MIA ’87, Councilmember, New
York City Council

Q&A

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