21 Facts About Stephen Berger

Stephen Berger was born on July 11,1939 and is an American entrepreneur, investment banker, civil servant and political advisor.

Stephen Berger has been CEO of both private and public organizations, as a board member, corporate director, and private equity investor as well as a Professor of Public Administration at New York University's Graduate School of Public Administration.

Stephen Berger's father, Saul Berger, was a politically active lawyer who ran for State Senate and City Council as an anti-Tammany candidate.

Stephen Berger attended New York City public schools, and graduated with Honors in Science from Stuyvesant High School in 1955.

Stephen Berger was executive assistant to Congressman Bingham from 1964 to 1968.

Stephen Berger later managed the campaign of Bronx Borough President Herman Badillo, a former US Representative, in the 1969 New York mayoral primary and Richard Ottinger's bid for the US Senate in 1970.

From 1973 to 1974, under the Rockefeller administration, Stephen Berger was a consultant to the Rockefeller Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, a private study project on national and international policy created to study the various resources and stresses on resources that would determine the environmental and economic health of America over the next several decades.

In 1976, during New York's financial crisis, Carey appointed Stephen Berger to become the executive director of the New York State Emergency Control Board for the City of New York, which reviewed the city's $12.5 billion budget and designed a plan that enabled the city to reenter the credit markets and eventual financial recovery.

Stephen Berger was responsible for directing New York and New Jersey's airports, port facilities, interstate network of tunnels, bridges and commuter trains and real estate investment, including the World Trade Center.

Stephen Berger directed a major reorganization of the port authority, which had some 9,500 employees and a $2.2 billion annual budget.

Stephen Berger was responsible for a portfolio of businesses, including the Corporate Finance Group, Private Equity Investment, Railcar Services, Transport International Pool, GE Capital Modular Space and The Financial Guaranty Insurance Company.

Stephen Berger was responsible for establishing and growing GE Capital's insurance annuity business, with the acquisitions of Great Northern Annuity Insurance Company from Weyerhaeuser Company and United Pacific Life Insurance Company from the Reliance Group.

In 1997, Stephen Berger was one of the founders of Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC.

Stephen Berger currently serves as Chairman of Odyssey Investment Partners.

Stephen Berger is a director of the Partnership for New York City and the former co-chair of the Governor's Committee on Scholastic Achievement.

Stephen Berger continued his work in the New York health care system and chaired the Governor's Task Force on Health Care Reform from 2003 to 2005.

Stephen Berger chaired the Health System Redesign Group, which proposed a restructuring of Brooklyn's Hospitals and Primary Care Facilities.

Stephen Berger serves as a member of State's Value Based Pricing Committee and the Project Approval and Oversight Panel for the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program, guiding New York's investment of $6 billion in federal funds, through the State's Medicaid waiver.

Stephen Berger is a Trustee of Brandeis University and Chair of the Resources Committee.

Stephen Berger received the 2023 New York Citizen's Budget Commission Felix Rohatyn Award for Public Service.

Stephen Berger is President of the Board of the Churchill School in New York City and serves as President of The Bridge, a mental health agency.