Henry Cisneros

Henry Gabriel Cisneros ( born June 11, 1947 in San Antonio, Texas ) is an American politician (Democratic Party) and manager.

Biography

After attending high school in San Antonio, he completed a degree in Urban Planning at Texas A & M University, which he initially with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and then in 1970 graduated with a Master of Arts ( MA) in Urban Planning in 1968. After postgraduate studies followed in public administration at Harvard University, which he with a MA finished in Public Administration. In 1975 his PhD Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D.) in Public Administration at George Washington University.

His political career began in 1981 when he was elected mayor of San Antonio and re-elected until 1989. On January 22, 1993, he was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ( Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ) in his cabinet. He remained in this office until the end of Clinton's first term of office on 19 January 1997.

Cisneros was later convicted of misleading the justice and perjury, but at the end of Clinton's term of office on January 20, 2001 pardoned by this.

After retiring from government policies he joined the private sector and was initially 1997-2000 President and Chief Operating Officer ( COO) of Univision. He then became 2001 member of the board of Countrywide Financial and held this office until 2007. Cisneros was also Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and member of the board of KB Hime and Univision.

In addition, he has held several positions in social and socio- political institutions and was also a member of the Executive Board of the American Film Institute, Board of Trustees (Board of Trustees ) of the Enterprise Foundation, Board Member of Homes for Working Families, the National Alliance to End Homelessness and the New America Alliance.