Experience

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  AKA|Strategy

  • United States
  • Business Consulting and Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Managing Director

    • Jan 1990 - Present

    Anthony Knerr is a Managing Director and founder of AKA Strategy, originally Anthony Knerr & Associates. He was earlier Executive Vice President for Finance and Treasurer of Columbia University and Vice Chancellor for Budget and Planning of the City University of New York. He was previously Special Assistant for Budget and Planning to the Acting President of Yale University; an Associate with the consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton; a Program Officer with the International Exchange Program; a Teaching Associate at Indiana University; and a Teacher at Milton Academy.Dr. Knerr has taught English Literature at Columbia College, Public Policy and Nonprofit Management at Columbia University Graduate School of Business, English Literature at Indiana University, Philosophy at Yale University and Public Policy at the New School. He has written and published widely on strategy, non-profit organizations, public policy, higher education and literature.Dr. Knerr is currently President Emeritus of the Sea Turtle Conservancy; President Emeritus of United Neighborhood Houses of New York City; Treasurer of Words Without Borders; and a board member of the Keats-Shelley Association and New York Society Library. He is also a Lead Director of the Delaware Group of Mutual Funds and a member of the Mutual Fund Directors Education Council. He has previously served on numerous other nonprofit and corporate boards, and was recently Vice Chairman of Humanity in Action. He is a member of the Foreign Policy Association, Grolier Club, New York Economic Club and Phi Beta Kappa.He received his Ph.D. in English Literature from New York University; M.A. cum laude from Yale University and B.A. magna cum laude in Mathematics and Philosophy from Yale University.

  • Managing Director

    • Jan 1990 - Present

    Established in 1990, AKA Strategy (formerly Anthony Knerr & Associates) is a strategy consulting firm assisting higher education, and leading nonprofit institutions in the United States and worldwide to successfully address complex strategic challenges.

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  Publication Group Inc.

  • President

    • 1988 - 1990
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  Columbia University Graduate School of Business

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Lecturer

    • 1986 - 1988

    Public Policy and nonprofit Management

  • Executive Vice President for Finance and Treasurer

    • 1978 - 1988

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  Yale University

  • Special Assistant for Budget and Planning

    • 1977 - 1978
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  City University of New York

  • Vice Chancellor for Budget and Planning

    • 1970 - 1977
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  Booz, Allen & Hamilton

  • Associate

    • 1967 - 1970
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  International Exchange Program

  • Program Officer

    • 1965 - 1967
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  Milton Academy

  • Teacher

    • 1961 - 1963