Harold Levy is best known for having been Chancellor of New York City's public schools. He served for two and a half years during the end of Mayor Rudy Giuliani's term and the beginning of Mayor Mike Bloomberg's from 2000 to 2002.

Prior to becoming Schools Chancellor, he was Associate General Counsel of Salomon Inc and Travelers Group, and Director of Global Compliance of Citigroup. Afterward, Levy served as Executive Vice President of Kaplan, Inc., a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company. He was a member of the senior management team of Kaplan's Higher Education Division, which included over 70 for-profit campuses and an online university with over 60,000 students. Levy was a member of the board of Hesser College and Kaplan University, as well as responsible for starting Kaplan University's online School of Education. Levy is now Managing Director at Plainfield Asset Management and on the Wilson Council of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

He attended Bronx High School of Science, where he was president of the Student Organization, and later earned degrees from Cornell University and Oxford University. He currently resides with his wife and two children in New York City.

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