Biography

Call 1.800.966.1380 to contact Ed Koch booking agent, publicist, manager, pr firm, representative and management company for booking Ed Koch speaker appearances, autograph signing, endorsement deals or hiring Ed Koch as a keynote speaker for your next event. Find Ed Koch official website information, speaker fees, booking fees, costs and schedule. Mayor Ed Koch saved the City of New York from bankruptcy and in doing so restored the pride of New Yorkers. During his three terms as Mayor from 1978-1989, he restored fiscal stability to the City of New York and he was responsible for placing the City on a GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Practices) balanced budget basis.

He created a housing program which, over a ten-year period, provided more than 150,000 units of affordable housing financed by city funds in the amount of $5.1 billion. He created for the first time in New York City a merit judicial selection system and selected some of the most outstanding public servants to serve in his administration.

Prior to being Mayor, Ed Koch served for nine years as a Congressman and two years as a member of the New York City Council. He attended City College of New York from 1941 to 1943. In his last year of college, he was drafted into the Army where he served with the 104th Infantry Division. He received two battle stars, Combat Infantry badge and was honorably discharged with the rank of Sergeant in 1946. In that year, he also attended the New York University School of Law. Ed Koch received his LL.B. degree in 1948 and began to practice law immediately thereafter.

He is currently a partner in the law firm of Bryan Cave LLP. He hosts a Friday evening call-in radio program on Bloomberg AM 1130 (WBBR) and is also a commentator on that same station. Mr. Koch is a weekly guest on NY1 television with former Senator Alfonse D'Amato, writes a weekly column for the New York Press and publishes movie reviews which appear in two newspapers. He also lectures around the country.

In 2004, Koch was appointed by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell as Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the Conference of Anti-Semitism sponsored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The conference, held in April 2004 in Berlin, Germany, was extraordinarily successful in binding the 55 member nations in their resolve to reduce and seek the elimination of rising anti-Semitism by enacting civil legislation and educating youth throughout the world of the dangers of anti-Semitism.

Ed Koch is known and praised as a public figure with the common touch, a leader who is "a voice of reason." In April 2005, he was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by President George W. Bush for a five year term.

Additionally, Koch is the author of numerous books which include Mayor, Politics, His Eminence and Hizzoner, All the Best, Citizen Koch, Ed Koch on Everything, Giuliani: Nasty Man, I'm Not Done Yet: Remaining Relevant, and most recently Eddie, Harold's Little Brother, a children's book which he co-authored with his sister, Pat Koch Thaler.

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