- Kenneth Lipper
Kenneth Lipper is a prominent figure in the arts, in the world of finance, and in government. He has served as a lawyer, an investment banker, a novelist, a screenwriter, a professor, and as a former
New York City deputy mayor for finance and economic development (1983 to 1985). In2003 , a judge forced Lipper to hand over millions to wronged investors in the aftermath of a hedge fund scamcite web |url=http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2003/nf20031120_1373_db035.htm?chan=search |title=Ken Lipper faces a big-time payback |accessdate=2007-01-14 |last=Vickers |first=Marcia |date=2003-11-20 |work=BusinessWeek online |publisher=McGraw-Hill] .Education, Wall Street, and Government
Lipper earned his
B.A. at Columbia, hisJ.D. atHarvard Law School , hisLL.M. at NYU and doing postgraduate work in law and economics at theUniversity of Paris .Thereafter he was an associate with a Wall Street law firm for a year before serving as director of industry policy for the
Office of Foreign Direct Investment inWashington, D.C. . He has been associate and partner ofLehman Brothers (1969-75) and managing director and partner atSalomon Brothers (1976-82) before being recruited by MayorEd Koch for his position as deputy mayor. In the late 1980s, Lipper founded the investment firmLipper & Company .He has taught at Columbia's
School of International and Public Affairs for many years and serves on the school's advisory board. His proposals for investing in America's cities by developing and supporting the entrepreneurial class have gained wide public attention.The arts
Lipper triumphed in the publishing world with the success of his novel "Wall Street", adapted from
Oliver Stone 's award-winning film of the same name, in which Lipper himself served as technical advisor and had a brief cameo. His experience in government was the inspiration for another film, 1996's "City Hall", starringAl Pacino , for which he served as producer and wrote the screenplay. Lipper was also producer of "The Winter Guest " and theAcademy Award -winning Holocaust documentary "The Last Days ", and provided assistance for "Pieces of April ".References
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