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Henry
G. Cisneros, Keynote
Speaker, Day 1 |
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Henry
Cisneros is Chairman of the CityView companies, community-building
firms dedicated to producing workforce homes in America’s cities.
CityView’s mission is to work with the nation’s leading homebuilders
to create “villages within cities”, priced within the range of
average families, designed to honor community traditions, and
financed to provide homeownership options for residents of the
nation’s cities. In order to complete that mission, CityView
identifies sites, plans neighborhoods, organizes and develops land,
and finances the building of homes.
From 1997-2000, Mr. Cisneros was president and chief operating
officer of Univision Communications, the Spanish-language
broadcaster which has become the fifth-most-watched television
network in the nation.
From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Cisneros served as Secretary of the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development. As a member of
President Clinton’s Cabinet, Secretary Cisneros was assigned
America’s housing and community development portfolio. He is
credited with initiating the revitalization of many of the nation’s
public housing developments and with formulating policies which have
contributed to today’s record homeownership rate.
Prior to joining the Cabinet, he was chairman of Cisneros Asset
Management Company, a fixed income management firm operating
nationally.
In 1981, Mr. Cisneros became the first Hispanic-American mayor of a
major U.S. city, San Antonio, Texas. During his four terms in
office, he helped rebuild the city’s economic base and spurred the
creation of jobs through massive infrastructure and downtown
improvements, marking San Antonio as one of the nation’s most
progressive cities.
In 1984, Mr. Cisneros was interviewed by the Democratic Presidential
nominee as a possible candidate for Vice President of the United
States and in 1986 was selected as the “Outstanding Mayor” in the
nation by City and State magazine.
Henry Cisneros has served as president of the National League of
Cities, chairman of the National Civic League, deputy chair of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, as a board member of the Rockefeller
Foundation, and presently as National Chairman of the After-School
All-Stars. He is also a member of the boards of Countrywide
Financial, a Fortune 500 company which is the nation’s prime
originator of home mortgages; Live Nation, an urban entertainment
company; and Avanzar Interior Technologies, an automotive
technologies company.
Mr. Cisneros holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master’s degree in Urban
and Regional Planning from Texas A&M University. He earned a
Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, a
Doctorate in Public Administration from George Washington
University, and has been awarded over 20 honorary doctorates from
leading universities. He served as an infantry officer in the United
States Army.
Mr. Cisneros has been the author, editor or collaborator of several
books including: Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation;
Opportunity and Progress: A Bipartisan Platform for National Housing
Policy; and Casa y Comunidad: Latino Home and Neighborhood Design to
be published later this year.
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