Zohran Mamdani shall be sworn in as New York Metropolis’s subsequent mayor on Jan. 1. Within the weeks since his win, he’s been slowly constructing out his administration, though there are some key roles nonetheless not crammed — together with deputy mayor for operations, a faculties chancellor, and the top of the Division of Transportation.
One appointee resigned a bit greater than 24 hours after she was introduced after anti-semitic social media posts she wrote as a youngster surfaced.
Mamdani can be holding some present commissioners and administration officers, together with Dr. Mitchell Katz as president and CEO of Well being and Hospitals, Dr. Jason Graham as chief medical expert, Mir Bashar as chief administrative officer and Michael Garner as chief enterprise variety officer.
Right here’s a operating record of who shall be a part of the Mamdani administration:
First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan
Fuleihan spent years working in Albany as a coverage analyst after which price range negotiator earlier than becoming a member of former Mayor Invoice de Blasio’s administration in 2013 as price range director and later within the job he’s returning to beneath Mamdani.
At 74, he provides the mayor — 40 years his junior — the expertise many have criticized Mamdani for not having. Since he was introduced, he’s attended picket line occasions and the incoming mayor’s 12-hour listening session on the Museum of the Transferring Picture, listening to from New Yorkers hold forth about their greatest considerations.
Chief of Employees Elle Bisgaard-Church
Bisgaard-Church was introduced alongside Fuleihan in early November and can serve in the identical capability she did for Mamdani throughout his tenure within the state Meeting. The normally press-shy staffer was described in a Metropolis & State profile as “calm” and “stylish” and a “workhorse.” She additionally hung out assembly with New Yorkers about their citywide considerations, and is predicted to be Mamdani’s most trusted advisor.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch
It was first reported in October that Mamdani wished to maintain the present police commissioner — Mayor Eric Adams’s fourth — in his administration. Almost a month later, she introduced she had accepted the mayor-elect’s supply.
Head of Intergovernmental Affairs Jahmila Edwards
A longtime chief of District Council 37,the town’s largest municipal union, Edwards will run Mamdani’s intergovernmental workplace, which works with native, state and federal officers to construct assist for the administration’s priorities. Most lately the union’s affiliate director, she beforehand labored on the metropolis Division of Training.
Finances Director Sherif Soliman
Soliman was most lately the senior vice chancellor for price range and finance and chief monetary officer on the Metropolis College of New York. He was tapped to guide the mayor’s Workplace of Administration and Finances, an particularly essential place as the town faces price range deficits.
Soliman was a chief coverage and supply officer within the Workplace of Coverage and Planning beneath Adams, and commissioner of the Division of Finance amongst different positions for de Blasio. He additionally served beneath former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning Leila Bozorg
Bozorg is the present government director for housing beneath Mayor Adams and has spent greater than 15 years working in authorities, together with on the Division of Metropolis Planning and Division of Housing Preservation and Improvement.
Her concentrate on creating extra housing innovatively, by constructing on small tons, for instance, shall be pivotal in serving to Mamdani obtain a important objective. Bozorg additionally labored on the federal Division of Housing and City Improvement.
Deputy Mayor for Financial Justice Julie Su
Su labored for practically two years as performing U.S. Secretary of Labor beneath former President Joe Biden. She additionally spent seven years as California’s labor secretary.
In her newly created function, she is going to oversee such businesses because the Division of Shopper and Employee Safety and the Taxi & Limousine Fee to make sure truthful wages and different employee protections.
Division of Shopper and Employee Safety Commissioner Sam Levine
Levine is the previous director of the Federal Commerce Fee’s Bureau of Shopper Safety and beforehand labored beneath FTC chair Lina Khan, who’s a co-chair of Mamdani’s transition staff.
His focus shall be on wage theft, labor abuse and different financial points for employees, the incoming mayor’s staff stated.
Fireplace Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore
Bonsignore spent greater than 30 years within the Fireplace Division and was chief of the division’s Emergency Medical Service operations in the course of the pandemic, serving because the highest-ranking girl within the division.
Her appointment was praised by the unions representing EMS employees, who known as it “historic” and a step in the direction of ending inequity inside the division.
