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Chairwoman, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
2015 Rank: 11
Age: 67
By Kim Velsey
2016 OPERATING BUDGET $140 million
NYC IMPACT Co-chair, International Rescue Committee; trustee, The Rockefeller University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Katherine Farley retired as senior managing director at Tishman Speyer last year, but her influence as one of the city’s major cultural and economic forces remains formidable. As chairwoman for the past eight years at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Farley has been instrumental in the $1.2 billion renovation of the 16-acre campus that is nearing its conclusion with the refurbishment of David Geffen Hall, for which she helped secure a $100 million gift from the entertainment mogul.
Farley stepped in to steer the institution when President Jed Bernstein abruptly resigned last year, and she shepherded Debora Spar as the center’s first female president in March. Under Farley’s guidance, Lincoln Center’s 11 constituent arts groups signed a statement urging the U.S. not to cut funding to the National Endowment for the Arts.
Farley spent 32 years at Tishman Speyer, where she helped the real estate behemoth, led by her husband, Jerry Speyer, expand into global markets.
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