New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg
To Speak at 25th Annual Awards Banquet
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Michael Bloomberg |
Renowned business leader, philanthropist and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be the featured speaker at the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence 25th annual Academic Awards Banquet, slated May 21 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Norman.
The gala awards banquet honors 100 of Oklahoma’s top public high school seniors as Academic All-Staters and five outstanding educators as Medal for Excellence winners. “Celebrating Our Past, Inspiring the Future” is the theme of this year’s banquet, which will be chaired by OFE Trustee Les Risser of Norman.
“We are excited to welcome New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to help us honor Oklahoma’s most outstanding public school seniors and educators,” Risser said. “The Academic Awards committee is working hard to make this 25th anniversary banquet a memorable event for all our honorees and guests.”
Bloomberg is the 108th mayor of New York City, now serving his third term. After graduating from Harvard Business School, Bloomberg worked in equity trading and later information systems for Salomon Brothers. In 1981, he began his own business, Bloomberg LP, with a vision of using emerging technology to bring transparency and efficiency to buyers and sellers of financial securities. Today, Bloomberg LP has more than 285,000 subscribers to its financial news and information service in more than 160 countries.
During his tenure as mayor of New York, Bloomberg has been credited with cutting crime, creating jobs by revitalizing neighborhoods and attracting new investment, creating new city parks, reducing welfare rolls and combating poverty, and improving public health. In addition, Bloomberg launched dramatic reforms that have resulted in higher test scores, lower dropout rates and improved teaching.