1. Amanda Jay Mortimer Burden is an American businesswoman who is a principal at Bloomberg Associates, an international consulting service founded by Michael Bloomberg as a philanthropic venture to help city governments improve the quality of life of their citizens.
Amanda Burden was the director of the New York City Department of City Planning and chair of the City Planning Commission under Mayor Bloomberg from 2002 to 2013.
Amanda Burden worked on Battery Park City from 1983 to 1990.
Amanda Burden is a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1996.
Amanda Burden is a descendant of the first chief justice of the US Supreme Court, John Jay, and a granddaughter of Dr Harvey Cushing, the "Father of American Neurosurgery" and Pulitzer Prize winning author.
Amanda Burden has a brother, Stanley Grafton Mortimer III; five half-siblings, William Cushing Paley, Kate Cushing Paley, Averell Mortimer, Jay Mortimer, and David Mortimer; and two step-siblings, Hilary Paley Califano and Jeffrey Paley.
Amanda Burden's stepmother, Kathleen Harriman Mortimer, was a daughter of railroad heir and United States ambassador W Averell Harriman.
Amanda Burden graduated from the Westover School in Middlebury, Connecticut and attended Wellesley College until her marriage in 1964.
Amanda Burden graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1976, with a concentration in environmental science.
Amanda Burden later earned a Master of Urban Planning from Columbia University, writing an award-winning thesis about solid-waste management.
Amanda Burden was a public school teacher in Harlem in the early 1970s.
From 1983 until 1990, Amanda Burden was Vice President for Planning and Design of the Battery Park City Authority.
Amanda Burden was responsible for the development and implementation of design guidelines for the 92-acre site as well as for overseeing the design of all open spaces and parkland, including the waterfront esplanade.
Amanda Burden served as Commissioner from 2002 to 2013 under Mayor Bloomberg.
Amanda Burden served as Chairperson of the New York City Planning Commission and Director of the Department of City Planning from 2002 to 2013 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Amanda Burden had served on the commission since her appointment by New York City Council president Andrew Stein in 1990.
Amanda Burden said the goal of the initiative was for the water to become the "sixth borough" of the city.
Amanda Burden focused on managing the aesthetics of new development in a way that maintains the character of a neighborhood.
Amanda Burden herself acknowledged the failure to address livability when speaking in 2013 at a CityLab panel on urban expansion:.
Amanda Burden was inducted into the membership of the American Institute of Certified Planners College of Fellows, and was named the 5th most powerful person in New York real estate by The New York Observer.
Amanda Burden received the American Architectural Foundation's Keystone Award in 2011.
Amanda Burden had a relationship with journalist and talk show host Charlie Rose from 1993 to about 2006.