Stephen R. Aiello

Steve Aiello was elected to the Board of Trustees in 2014. He is serving his first term which expires in 2017. As a member of the board, Steve serves as chair of the Marketing Task Force Committee and as a member of Strategic Planning Committee. Steve brings more than 35 years of extensive national, state, and local political and government affairs work as well as corporate public relations experience to the Wagner College board. He currently serves as a senior counselor, in Hill+Knowlton Strategies, New York. His government, crisis, labor and coalition-building expertise has helped a number of major clients build or repair relationships with key communities and constituencies. Steve served in the White House as special assistant to President Carter on ethnic/urban affairs. He also held the office of president of the New York City Board of Education for three years. He was the president of the New York Educational Construction Fund and has taught at the university level and in secondary schools. He is a former director of the National Italian American Foundation, Kappa Delta Pi, a former trustee of the NYS Democratic Committee and Lifetime trustee of the Community Services Society of New York. He has received numerous honors from educational, community, government, and business organizations and has been honored by the governments of Italy and Ireland for his work in promoting greater understanding and cooperation between their countries and the United States. Steve holds a doctorate in urban studies from Union Graduate School/Columbia University, a master’s degree in history from Columbia University, a bachelor’s degree in history from New York University, and a Professional Certificate in educational administration from New York University.