Richard C. Leone

Richard C. Leone is President of the Century Foundation, a public policy research foundation in New York and Washington. Mr. Leone was formerly chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and State Treasurer of New Jersey. He also was President of the New York Mercantile Exchange and a managing director at Dillon Read and Co., an investment banking firm. He is a director of several public companies and of the American Prospect. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pew Hispanic Center advisory board, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. He served as executive director of a White House Task Force on the Cities and as Administrative Assistant to the governor of New Jersey. His analytical and opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, and other publications. He is co-editor of two collections of essays, Social Security: Beyond the Basics and The War on Our Freedoms. Mr. Leone earned a Ph.D. and was a member of the faculty at Princeton University.