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People at SCEPA
SCEPA Advisory Board
Bob
Kerrey
President
The New School
Bob Kerrey is
President of The New School in New York City. For twelve years prior
to becoming president of The New School, Kerrey represented the
State of Nebraska in the United States Senate. Before that he served
as Nebraska's governor for four years.
Kerrey believes
we have an obligation to secure liberty for our posterity as much
as for ourselves. Accordingly he became the Senate's leading advocate
of limiting the growth of mandatory spending, which threatens to
impair our capacity for future investments. He introduced the first
bi-partisan Social Security legislation in 1995 and re-introduced
a broadly supported bill in 1999. He also introduced legislation
which would make health care a right for all U.S. citizens and legal
residents, as well as control the growing cost of all health care,
including Medicare.
Educated in
pharmacy at the University of Nebraska, Kerrey served three years
in the United States Navy. After his military service, he started
a chain of restaurants and health clubs in Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas.
In many ways
The New School is an institution made for Kerrey's leadership. Kerrey's
experience in politics has taught him the importance of the social
research currently performed at the The New School for Social Research
and Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy. Both
New School Online University and the communication design investment
and leadership at Parsons The New School for Design dovetail with
his educational and public policy interests.
Kerrey is the
author of When I Was A Young Man: A Memoir (Harcourt, 2002).
He served as a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
upon the United States, currently leads a five year writing challenge
sponsored by The National Commission on Writing in America's Schools
and Colleges, and is co-chair with Newt Gingrich of The National
Commission for Quality Long-Term Care.
He is married
to Sarah Paley. The couple have a young son, Henry, who was born
on 10 September 2001. Kerrey's children from a previous marriage
are named Ben and Lindsey.
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