Jeffrey H. Lynford

Jeffrey H. Lynford currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey which operates and maintains the most important transportation assets in the bi-state region as well as the World Trade Center. Mr. Lynford also serves as President and CEO of Educational Housing Services, Inc. (EHS), the leading not-for-profit New York City organization that has provided safe and affordable off-campus housing for college students and interns since 1987. Formerly, he has served as a Director of the Trust for Governors Island, as a Member of the New York State Council on the Arts, on the boards of New York University, NYU Tandon School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic University), and the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.  He is an emeritus trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and the Citizens Budget Commission, to name a few.  Mr. Lynford is co-founder of the Wellsford group of public and private real estate companies, and he has served sequentially as the Chairman of three exchange-listed corporations which he has taken public.  Mr. Lynford is a graduate of Princeton University [MPA], Fordham University [JD], and the University at Buffalo [BA].  He is married to Tondra Lynford, a psychotherapist; they are the parents of four children and the grandparents of two grandchildren.