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Mortimer
L. Downey
President, pbConsult; former U.S. Deputy Secretary
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Downey has a distinguished transportation career with a
wealth of experience in the profitable management and operation
of major public authorities. Mr. Downey recently completed
eight years as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation.
As the Department of Transportation’s chief operating
officer, Mr. Downey developed the agency’s strategic
and performance plans and had program responsibilities for
operations, regulations and investments in land, sea, air
and space transportation. In this position, Mr. Downey not
only managed the department’s highly-regarded strategic
planning process, but also doubled infrastructure funding
over eight years while reducing departmental overhead staff
by ten percent. He also served on the President’s
Management Council, as chairman of the National Science
and Technology Council Committee on Technology, and as a
member of the board of directors of Amtrak.
Prior
to accepting President Clinton's appointment as Deputy Secretary,
Mr. Downey served as executive director and chief financial
officer at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
in New York, the nation's largest independent public transportation
authority. During his twelve years at the MTA, he was particularly
involved in the capital rebuilding of the MTA system, overseeing
the financing for and programming of more than $20 billion
of capital investment into its regional transportation facilities.
As the
president of PB Consult, Mr. Downey has over 40 years of
distinguished public service to his credit, including serving
in the Carter Administration as the Assistant Secretary
for Budget and Programs at the Department of Transportation
and on the Hill as the first transportation program analyst
for the US House of Representatives Committee on the Budget,
as well holding a number of positions with the Port Authority
of New York and New Jersey. He has managed structures for
capital infrastructure renewal, and has had significant
responsibilities for matters in the international arena,
including bilateral negotiations, multinational conferences
and international trade and development missions.
Mr.
Downey now serves on the National Academy of Sciences Committee
on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism, a team
of 24 distinguished scientists and engineers. He has received
numerous professional awards over the years, including election
to the National Academy of Public Administration, where
he serves on the board of directors, and was the 1999 recipient
of the organization's Truitt Award for Transportation Management.
He received the Frank Turner Lifetime Achievement Award
from the Transportation Research Board, a lifetime achievement
award from the American Public Transportation Association
and the Leadership Award from ITS America. He most recently
was elected to the Board of Directors of the Eno Foundation.
Mr.
Downey holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University
and a Masters degree in Public Administration from New York
University. He has completed additional studies in advanced
management at Harvard University Graduate School of Business
Administration.
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