Pat Foye brings extensive leadership experience across the private, public, and academic sectors. He spent 17 years as an M&A Partner at Skadden Arps and six years as an Executive Vice President at AIMCO, an S&P 500 REIT. He currently serves as an Operating Partner for Transportation and Infrastructure at ARDIAN, a global private investment firm with approximately $200 billion under management, and as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of Engineering, where he teaches Public-Private Partnerships.

His public-sector leadership includes six years as Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and four years as Chairman, CEO, and President of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He has also served as Chair of Empire State Development and as Vice Chairman of the Long Island Power Authority for 10 years.

Pat joined the Reconciliation League because of its unique convening of diverse universities to better understand pressing social and economic issues and explore serious, practical solutions.