Lynne Sagalyn

Lynne B. Sagalyn is the Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor Emerita of Real Estate at Columbia Business School. An expert in urban development and finance, Sagalyn is widely known for her research on public/private partnerships and city building. In addition to Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan (Oxford University Press, 2016), regarded as the definitive account of the rebuilding challenge and featured in her Rorotoko interview, she is the author of Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon (MIT Press, 2001) and co-author of Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities (MIT Press, 1989). Professor Sagalyn serves as a director of several real estate companies and nonprofit organizations in New York City. Born in Queens, Professor Sagalyn now lives on the Upper West Side with her husband.