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Bernard B. Kerik (New York, NY) Bernard B. Kerik is one of the most accomplished public servants in the United States. For more than thirty years, Mr. Kerik has served his country – most notably as the 40th Police Commissioner of the City of New York. Appointed by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and responsible for 55,000 uniformed and civilian employees and a $3.2 billion annual budget; his term was marked by dramatic reductions in crime, innovative and creative management and his oversight of the rescue, recovery and investigation of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001.He was also assigned to the 18th Airborne Corps, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he trained Special Forces and Special Operations personnel at the JFK Unconventional Warfare Center and spent four years working on various security assignments in the Middle East. On February 13th 2002, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second, also honored him with an honorary appointment as Commander of the Most Excellent Royal Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 2003, served as Iraq’s interim Minister of Interior and the Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Presidential Envoy to Iraq’s Coalition Provisional Authority. Arriving in Baghdad just days after coalition forces invaded, Mr. Kerik was responsible for beginning the reconstitution and re-instatement of Iraq’s interior ministry including the national police service and borders enforcement. Nominated By Stella Lohmann |