Public Service

Bill Clinton, the Family of Hugh Carey, and Derek Bryson Park
US President Bill Clinton, the family of New York Governor Hugh Carey, and Derek Bryson Park; Oval Office/West Wing/The White House.

Derek Park served as a public servant at the federal, state and local level. He was appointed Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York by President Bill Clinton in January 1999 and remained in the position into the George W. Bush administration until 2002; and, on motion duly made, was unanimously elected to serve on the Executive Committee in January, 2001; the Audit Committee in April, 1999; and as the Bank’s Representative to the International Union Of Housing Finance.

From 2000 to 2010, Park was appointed Chairman [pro tem] (and Chairman of the Audit Committee) of the New York Industrial Development Agency (IDA)  the nation’s second largest issuer of municipal debt vis-à-vis community-based projects. 

Additionally, Park served as Vice Chairman (and Chairman of the Audit Committee) of the New York City Capital Resource Corporation (NYCCRC) a public development corporation that provides lower-cost financing programs for eligible capital projects to qualified not-for-profit institutions and manufacturing, industrial, and other businesses. (2005-2010). 

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Derek Bryson Park
US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Derek Bryson Park

From 2000 to 2005, Park was also installed as Director (and member of the Executive Committee) of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC)  a government agency vested with overseeing a myriad of projects including, but not limited to, the designing and planned construction of two baseball stadiums for the Yankees and the Mets; Managing over 12 million square feet of office and industrial space; Monitoring the country’s largest urban redevelopment project in US history with the renovation of Time Square; To orchestrating the structural expansion of the New York Stock Exchange. 

Derek Park’s appointment to all three positions was by the Giuliani Administration (under N.Y. Governor George Pataki); and, the Bloomberg Administration (under N.Y. Governors Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson).

From 2000 to 2014, Park conjointly served as Commissioner of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in the Giuliani, Bloomberg, and de Blasio Administrations. In this role, Park worked to protect the rights of New York City residents primarily minorities and immigrants regarding housing, mortgage and other abusive consumer-related bank practices.

 

Chairman (pro tem) of the New York Industrial Agency, Derek Bryson Park; President of the New York Yankees Baseball Club, Randy Levine; and Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of the New York Mets, David Cohen; receiving The Bond Buyer’s Deal of the Year Award for the Agency’s sale of $1.6 billion of bonds to finance new ballparks for both teams in the Bronx and Queens, New York, NY
Joe Torre, (who served as the Yankees manager under owner George Steinbrenner and who took the team to the postseason every one of his twelve seasons with the club, winning six American League pennants and four World Series) and Derek Bryson Park
NYC Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s Official Declaration, Commissioner to the NYC Commission on Human Rights
NYC Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s Official Declaration, Commissioner to the NYC Commission on Human Rights
Commissioner Derek Bryson Park with Mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani
Dr. Derek Bryson Park and New York Mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg during the Unveiling Of Multiple Mayoral Initiatives, New York City Hall, New York

 

Governor of New York, George Pataki and Derek Bryson Park
US Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger and Derek Bryson Park.

 

US Secretary of State, General Colin Powell and Derek Bryson Park
Derek Bryson Park and the Senior Senator from Connecticut, Christopher Dodd
House Majority Leader, U.S. Congressman Eric Cantor (R); Derek Bryson Park; and Chairman of the House Administration Committee, U.S. Congressman Bob Ney (R), Washington, D.C.
[Left to Right] New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Commissioner Derek Bryson Park and Commissioner/Chair of the NYC Commission on Human Rights, Patricia L. Gatling at a Commissionary Function, Gracie Mansion, NY

David Dinkins and Derek Bryson Park
Mayor of New York City, David Dinkins and Derek Bryson Park.
Derek Bryson Park and the Commissioner of the New York Police Department (“NYPD”) Ray Kelly (2002-2013)
Derek Bryson Park and Sergei Khrushchev, Ph.D. who serves as an advisor to the Cold War Museum and was a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and son of the former Soviet Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev
Miss Ireland, Michelle Rocca; Derek Bryson Park, and New York Governor Hugh L. Carey
Miss Ireland, Michelle Rocca with Derek Bryson Park and New York Governor Hugh L. Carey at the Rocca family home, Dublin, Ireland.

Derek Bryson Park with Sir Patrick Mayhew, and the Irish American Chamber of Commerce
Derek Bryson Park (Front Row second from the left) pictured with her Majesty’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Patrick Barnabas Burke Mayhew, Baron Mayhew of Twysden (Center) and the Irish American Chamber of Commerce, Hillsborough Castle, Belfast, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Derek Bryson Park; Governor of Mississippi Bill Allain; and Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Callon Petroleum Company, John S. Callon, Natchez, MS

Senior Pollster for Former US President and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Mississippi Governor Bill Allain, Dick Morris; and, Derek Bryson Park