Julie Horowitz

Chief of Staff to the Deputy Chancellor for Operations, New York City Department of Education

Julie Horowitz serves as Chief of Staff to the Deputy Chancellor for Operations at the New York City Department of Education. After more than a decade of education-related work in the public, private and non-profit sectors, she joined the NYC DOE in early 2003, a few months after Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Joel Klein as Chancellor. With 1.2 million students, 1,400+ schools, 145,000 employees and a $14 billion operating budget, the Department is the largest school district in the country. While at the DOE, Ms. Horowitz also participated in the inaugural cohort of The Broad Foundation's "Residency in Urban Education," a national management training program for "talented emerging executives" in urban education.

A proud product of the NYC public schools, Ms. Horowitz began her career as a high school teacher in New York City and Cape Town, South Africa. Later, she worked as an equity research analyst at Furman Selz, LLC, where she was one of the first analysts to provide the institutional investment community with research coverage of for-profit education companies. Ms. Horowitz left Wall Street to hold business development positions for three education-related enterprises - ChildrenFirst (a child care company), Edison Schools (a school management firm), and a now-defunct educational Internet company.

Ms. Horowitz holds a BA and an MBA from Yale University. Early in her career she studied as a Fulbright scholar in South Africa, served as an Urban Fellow in NYC government, and was a fellow in the Rockefeller Foundation's Next Generation Leadership program.