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Anne Bovaird Nevins

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Director of Economic Development with Accelerator for America

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    About

    Anne Bovaird Nevins serves as President of PIDC where she is responsible for the organization’s efforts to develop and implement collaborative strategies designed to drive economic growth to every corner of Philadelphia. In this role, Anne leads PIDC’s efforts to strengthen relationships with the public, private and philanthropic sectors to promote business growth, investment and development across the city and throughout its economy. She also directs internal activities around business development, capitalization, impact assessment, and the development and delivery of real estate and financing products that fill project financing gaps for neighborhood and large-scale commercial, industrial and mixed-use developments, deliver capital to growing businesses, and energize the development of the city’s workplaces of the future.

    Prior to her appointment as President in January of 2020, Anne served as PIDC’s Chief Strategy and Communications Officer, a key member of the executive team where she oversaw capitalization, product development, strategic communications, and partnerships. Prior to this role, Nevins served as PIDC’s Senior Vice President for Marketing and Business Development for six years where she led a team that transformed PIDC’s brand identity, developed new lending products, and generated 360 loans to small, diverse, and growing businesses investing over $117 million dollars located in 94% of Philadelphia’s zip codes. Anne has served on the Mayor’s Refinery Advisory Group for the City of Philadelphia, co-managed Philadelphia’s Amazon HQ2 bid, and has created and led PIDC and ULI Philadelphia’s partnership advisory committee on the future of work and its impact on industrial and commercial land.

    From 1999 to 2001, Anne served in the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs, which is responsible for coordination between the President and all cabinet agencies. She then joined the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games and managed the logistical and hospitality arrangements for all U.S. dignitaries attending the Olympics. Anne then managed corporate sponsorships for the Kimmel Center, the regional performing arts center in Philadelphia. She next served as Director of Development for Historic Philadelphia, Inc. and raised substantial funds to renovate Franklin Square, an 8-acre urban park in the center of Philadelphia’s historic district. Anne has a Masters in Business Administration from the Wharton School and a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives with her family in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia and serves on the Board of Directors of the Friends of Bache-Martin, supporting the neighborhood public school.

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    Alan Greenberger

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    Vice President of Real Estate and Facilities, Drexel University

    Distinguished Teaching Professor

    About

    Alan Greenberger is Vice President of Real Estate and Facilities at Drexel University. He was the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Director of Commerce for the City of Philadelphia from 2009 through 2015 under the administration of former mayor Michael Nutter. He also served as Executive Director and then Chairman of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission during that period. Prior to that, he was in private practice as an architect and planner with MGA Partners and its predecessor, Mitchell/Giurgola Architects, firms that gained national and international stature for design excellence.

    In his dual role in city government, Mr. Greenberger oversaw the integration of long-range strategic planning with implementation of both business and real estate development goals. Under his leadership, the City of Philadelphia rewrote the Philadelphia Zoning Code and initiated a five-year long comprehensive plan for the city, entitled Philadelphia 2035. Both initiatives are the first of their kind for the city in over 50 years and are the recipient of the American Planning Association’s National Best Practice Award for City Planning in 2013. Mr. Greenberger's office also launched multiple programs to attract and support a burgeoning entrepreneurial community, called StartUpPHL, and was successful in attracting new technology and venture capital firms to Philadelphia, in addition to expanding business opportunities for small, minority and women-owned businesses throughout the city. 

    During his 34 years in private practice, he was the principal designer on numerous award-winning architectural, urban design and planning projects. Among his notable projects are the Salvation Army Kroc Corps Community Center in Philadelphia, the renovation of Lehigh University's historic Linderman Library, the Department of State's National Foreign Affairs Training Center, and the Master Plan for the Centennial District in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park.

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    Lawrence Parks

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    CEO and Co-Founder, Forethought Advisors

    About

    Lawrence H. Parks is a co-founder of Forethought Advisors, an advocacy, lobbying and strategic corporate solutions firm specializing in financial services. He has authored parts of several groundbreaking banking legislative initiatives, including key provisions in the Dodd–Frank Act of 2010.

    Prior to the formation of Forethought Advisors, Mr. Parks spent 21 years as Senior Vice President of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs at the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. He has also served as Senior Advisor and Director of Strategic Regional Growth and Finance for the Department of Commerce, and as Associate Legislative Counsel and Director at the Mortgage Bankers’ Association.

    Mr. Parks has worked closely with Congress, presidential administrations, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as well as member institutions and national housing and community development advocates to shape regulatory policy in the housing finance and banking industries. He has a J.D. from Yale and graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Political Science from Temple University.

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    Janice Perlman

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    Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University

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    Janice Perlman is currently a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University. She is the Founder and President of The Mega-Cities Project: Innovations for Urban Life, a global non-profit network designed to shorten the lag time between ideas and implementation in urban problem solving. Perlman’s most recent book, Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro is based on her longitudinal study tracing changes over four generations in Rio’s favelas. She first lived in the favelas in 1968-’69 and challenged prevailing stereotypes with her first book, The Myth of Marginality.  She was formerly a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, and has received many major awards, including a Guggenheim, the C Wright Mills Award, the Chester Rapkin Award, the American Publishers’ PROSE Award and the Global Citizens Award.  

    Selected Publications

    Perlman, Janice. 2010. Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro. New York: Oxford University Press.

    Perlman, Janice. 2004. From the Marginality of the 1960s, to the ‘New Poverty’ of Today: A LARR Research Forum, Latin American Research Review, Peter Ward (ed.) 39: 1.

    Perlman, Janice. 1990. A Dual Strategy for Deliberate Social Change in Cities. Cities: The International Quarterly of Urban Policy, 3-15.

    Perlman, Janice. 1987. Misconceptions about the Urban Poor and the Dynamics of Housing Policy Evolution. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 6(3): 187-196.

    Perlman, Janice. 1976. The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Perlman, Janice. 1976. Grassrooting the System. Social Policy, VII(2): 4-20. 

    Faculty Fellow

    David Arthur Skeel

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    S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law

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      About

      David Skeel is S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World (InterVarsity, 2014); The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and Its (Unintended) Consequences (Wiley, 2011); Icarus in the Boardroom (Oxford, 2005); Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (Princeton, 2001); and numerous articles on bankruptcy, corporate law, financial regulation, Christianity and law, and other topics. Professor Skeel has also written commentaries for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Books & Culture, The Weekly Standard, and other publications.  He has received the Harvey Levin award three times for outstanding teaching, as selected by a vote of the graduating class, the Robert A. Gorman award for excellence in upper level course teaching, and the University’s Lindback Award for distinguished teaching.

      Selected Publications

      Skeel, David A. “True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of our Complex World.” IVP Books, 2014. 

      Skeel, David A., with William Warren and Daniel J. Bussel. “Brankruptcy.” Foundation Press 9th ed., 2012

      Skeel, David A. “The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and its (Unintended) Consequences. Wiley, 2011 

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