Former NY State Lieutenant Governor to deliver Tanner
Lecture at Maxwell School
The Honorable Richard Ravitch, former lieutenant governor of
New York, will deliver the next Tanner Lecture on Ethics, Citizenship,
and Public Responsibility on October 10 at 4 p.m. in Maxwell
Auditorium. His talk is titled “Public Responsibility and the
Federal-State Disconnect.”
Ravitch is a lawyer, businessman, and public official who
has been engaged in both private and public business for more than 50
years. He was chairman/CEO of HRH Construction Corporation and later
chairman/CEO of Bowery Savings Bank. He served as lieutenant governor of
the State of New York from 2009-2010.
Since 1975, Ravitch has chaired a series of public
corporations and commissions, including the New York State Urban Development
Corporation, which he helped rescue from insolvency; the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority, which he reorganized; and the Charter Revision
Commission of the City of New York. Most recently, he co-chaired the
State Budget Crisis Task Force with the former chairman of the Federal Reserve,
Paul A. Volcker.
The Tanner Lecture Series on Ethics, Citizenship, and Public
Responsibility provides a public forum for exploring questions about ethical
citizenship in provocative and challenging ways. The series has been
generously endowed by alumnus W. Lynn Tanner '75 PhD, founder, CEO, and
chairman of TEC Canada, a leadership development organization dedicated to
accelerating the growth and development of outstanding 21st-century
leaders. The lecture series is coordinated by the Campbell Public Affairs
Institute at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs. 09/30/14