Education Retirement System, Board of (BERS)

Description

The head of the retirement system is the Board of Trustees. The Board, subject to the limitations of the BERS Rules and Regulations and of law, establishes the policies for the administration and transaction of the business of the system and for the control of funds. The Board of Trustees consists of twenty-four Panel for Educational Policy members, the chancellor and two employee-members elected by the membership. The term of each employee-member is four years beginning the first of January following a regular election. Each employee-member has an alternate, who will serve the duration of the term of office of the elected employee-member in the event of the death, disability, disqualification or withdrawal of the employee-member. Further, in the event of an employee-member’s absence from a meeting of the board or any committee or subcommittee thereof, the respective alternate employee-member possesses all the powers and responsibilities of said employee-member for the duration of the meeting and is counted for quorum purposes. The current board members are:

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Addresses

  55 Water St., 50th Floor New York, NY 10041    Map this

Contact Numbers

(929) 305-3800
Fax:  (718) 935-4124

Board of Trustees

(1) Karine Apollon and Seritta Scott are designees of Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos (2) John Dorsa is designee of NYC Comptroller Brad Lander; Ricky Da Costa is first alternate designee of Brad Lander; Kate Visconti is second alternate designee of Brad Lander (3) Kevin Troy is interim alternate employee member (4) Shaun Francois is alternate employee member

Adriana Alecia
Marielle Ali
Phoebe Sade-Arnold
Shirley Aubin
Chancellor - Melissa Aviles-Ramos, (1)
Aaron Bogad
Camille Casaretti
Marjorie Dienstag
Amy Fair
Gregory Faulkner
Anita Garcia
Anthony Giordano
Dr. Angela Green
Naveed Hasan
Alice Ho
Rima Izquierdo
Comptroller - Brad Lander, (2)
Dr. Darling J. Miramey
Employee Member - Donald Nesbit, (4)
Sharon Odwin
Alan Ong
Maisha Sapp
Thomas C. Sheppard
Employee Member - Frank Sirabella, (3)
Venus Sze-Tsang
Manny Tavarez

Personnel

Sanford Rich , Executive Director.
(929) 305-3939