FACULTY DIRECTORY
Paul Firstenberg
Substitute Professor
Mailing Address:
Baruch College/CUNY
School of Public Affairs
One Bernard Baruch Way, Box D-0901
New York, NY 10010
Office Location: 135 East 22nd Street, Room 403
Phone: 646 660-6825
Fax: 646 660-6831
Email: pbfirsty@aol.com
Biography
Paul B. Firstenberg is a Substitute Professor at the School of Public Affairs. He comes to Baruch with extensive experience in higher education, nonprofit organizations and business. He served as Chancellor of Tulane University, and CFO of Princeton University. He was COO and Trustee of Children's Television Workshop ("Sesame Street"), an Officer of the Ford Foundation, and Executive Director of the American wing of a global nonprofit organization dedicated to education. He also worked for five years in the USAID program, financing private development in the Middle East and Asia, and as a consultant to businesses, nonprofits and the Russian Government seeking to start a private real estate market. In addition, Firstenberg has senior level business experience as Executive Vice President of the Prudential Real Estate Investment Company, Director of International Finance for the Atlantic Richfield Oil Company and as a member of the board of directors of public companies, including the Vanguard Group of Mutual Funds and Sizeler Properties Inc., a REIT.
Paul Firstenberg has authored a series of articles and books including Managing for Profit in the Nonprofit World, The 21st Century Nonprofit and Philanthropy's Challenge. He is currently writing a second edition of The 21st Century Nonprofit.
He received his BA from Princeton University and JD from the Harvard Law School.
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