15 Facts About Ameya Pawar

Ameya Pawar was first elected in the 2011 municipal elections, and was elected to a second term on February 24,2015.

Ameya Pawar is the first Indian American and Asian American in Chicago City Council history.

Ameya Pawar was a candidate for the Democratic primary for Governor of Illinois for the 2018 election, but dropped out on October 12,2017, citing a prohibitive lack of campaign funds.

Ameya Pawar did not run for re-election to City Council in 2019, and instead was a candidate for City Treasurer of Chicago.

Ameya Pawar is the former alderman of Chicago's 47th Ward and the first Asian and Indian American elected to the Chicago City Council.

In 2020, Ameya Pawar was named a Leadership in Government Fellow with the Open Society Foundations.

Ameya Pawar is a special adviser to the University of Chicago's Poverty Lab.

Ameya Pawar is a US State Department Critical Language Program alum, a 2012 University of Illinois Edgar Fellow, and was named to Crain's Chicago 40 under 40 in 2011.

Ameya Pawar is an expert on the connections between disaster planning and response and poverty.

In 2018, Ameya Pawar introduced legislation to pilot Universal Basic Income in the City of Chicago.

On October 29,2018, Ameya Pawar announced his intention to run for Chicago treasurer.

Ameya Pawar won 41.59 percent of the vote in the February 26,2019 general election, forcing a runoff with Melissa Conyears-Ervin, a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, who won 44.26 percent of the vote, but had less than a majority of the vote, which led to an April 2 runoff.

Ameya Pawar lost again to Conyears-Ervin in the runoff, receiving 40.62 percent of the vote.

Ameya Pawar is the only elected official on this statewide council.

Ameya Pawar was listed as a surrogate for President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign.