Tim Tompkins

Tim Tompkins has been the President of the Times Square Alliance since 2002. He is currently the Chair-elect of the International Downtown Association (IDA) and the past co-chair of the NYC BID Association. Prior to joining the Alliance, he was the Founder and Director of Partnerships for Parks, which works to support New York City’s neighborhood parks and which won an Innovations in Government Award from the JFK School of Government at Harvard for its work to restore the Bronx River. He has also worked at New York City’s Economic Development Corporation, The New York City Charter Revision Commission, and was briefly the Nationals Editor at the Mexico City News, an English language newspaper in Mexico. He has an undergraduate degree from Yale and an M.B.A. from Wharton, and currently teaches “Transforming the Urban Economy” and “Arts, the Artist and Urban Revitalization” at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. When not in the most urban and unnatural place on the planet, he enjoys spending time in New York’s more natural areas, ideally sailing or practicing yoga.

Areas of Expertise

Economic Development

International Development