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Reynold Levy
Reynold Levy has been the President of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts since March 1, 2002.

Reynold’s leadership at Lincoln Center continues a distinguished career of public service. He has been President of the International Rescue Committee (1997-2002), the senior officer of AT&T in charge of government relations (1994-1996), President of the AT&T Foundation (1984-1996), Executive Director of the 92nd Street Y (1977-1984), and Staff Director of the Task Force on the New York City Fiscal Crisis.

A graduate of Hobart College, Dr. Levy holds a law degree from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia. He has served as a consultant, volunteer, and Board member of numerous nonprofit and profit organizations, including the Manhattan Theatre Club, The Municipal Art Society of New York, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Grove Foundation, The Charles R. Bronfman Foundation and the Consortium for the Advancement of Private Higher Education. Reynold is currently a member of the Board of Overseers of the International Rescue Committee, a trustee of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, of Third Way, of the Revson Foundation and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Century Association.

Dr. Levy has published three books, Give and Take: A Candid Account of Corporate Philanthropy (1999, Harvard Business School Press), Nearing the Crossroads: Contending Approaches to American Foreign Policy (1975, Free Press of MacMillan) and, most recently, Yours for the Asking: An Indispensable Guide To Fundraising and Management (2008, John Wiley and Sons). He has written extensively and spoken widely about philanthropy, the performing arts, humanitarian causes and issues, and the leadership and management of nonprofit institutions. Levy has taught as a Senior Lecturer at The Harvard Business School, and has also taught law, political science and nonprofit administration at Columbia and New York Universities and at the City University of New York.

Reynold’s alma mater, Hobart College, honored him with its Alumni Medal of Excellence, given to only twenty graduates in the 125 year history of the school. The International Rescue Committee bestowed on him its coveted Freedom Award. Columbia University awarded Reynold the highly regarded Lawrence A. Wien Prize for Social Responsibility. Lincoln Center granted him its laureate award. Reynold has received the 2009 Design Patron Award granted by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum for his stewardship of Lincoln Center’s massive physical transformation, a $1.2 billion building project for the high quality improvement and expansion of public spaces, infrastructure and artistic facilities. In 2009, Reynold was granted the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding’s Corporate Bridge Builder Award, and was honored by Sing for Hope for his contributions to the arts, humanitarian causes and the city of New York.

Dr. Levy is married to Elizabeth Cooke, formerly Executive Director of the Parks Council of New York and President of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and currently a trustee of El Museo del Barrio.