Sherif Soliman

SHERIF SOLIMAN serves as Director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget.

With more than 30 years of experience in government, as Budget Director he oversees the city’s fiscal policy, including the development of the expense and capital budgets, the city’s bond and borrowing program, and the budgets of more than 90 city agencies and entities. He is also responsible for evaluating the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of city services and proposals and providing vital information to government officials on the local, national, and world economies.

Previously he served as the senior vice chancellor for budget and finance and chief financial officer at The City University of New York, where he was responsible for overseeing and managing the finances and business relationships of CUNY’s 25 colleges and the University’s central administration. In this role he oversaw management of $3 billion in state and city tax-levy operating funds, and more than $1 billion in tuition revenues. He also supervised the University Budget Office, the Office of the University Controller, the Office of Treasury Services, and the Office of University Strategic Sourcing.

His public service experience includes tenure as the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Finance, an agency that annually collects more than $40 billion in revenue and assesses over 1.1 million properties with a total combined value of $1.3 trillion. He was also the director of the Mayor’s Office of Policy and Planning where he spearheaded the first expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit in twenty years and designed two tax incentives to spur the private sector to create new childcare facilities. As the chief of staff for the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Operations he oversaw the operations and budgets of more than 20 major city agencies including the fire, sanitation, and transportation departments.

Mr. Soliman also served as Director of State Legislative Affairs for New York City, where he secured the enactment of several legislative and budgetary priorities, including the nation-leading universal pre-kindergarten program.

Mr. Soliman received his bachelor’s degree in political science from the State University of New York at Oneonta.