Stephen Lewis as he once looked and still feels.

Stephen Lewis as he now looks and should feel.

Stephen Lewis

In the Private and Public Sectors:

• Analyst of private sector strategy and public sector policy, interim manager and advisor on organizational change, mentor and trainer, consultant in marketing communications and public information, manager of major proposal efforts, and writer of corporate communications and public information materials.

• More than 150 clients to date in accountancy, biomedicine, broadcasting, education, engineering and construction, export promotion and investment attraction, human resources, monuments preservation, museums and the arts, oil and gas, petrochemicals, telecommunications, transportation, urban and regional development, and other fields.

• List of past clients includes: City of Amsterdam, City and Port of Rotterdam, Czech Telecom, Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam, Korn/Ferry International, Koç Group, KPMG, KPN, Netherlands Broadcasting Authority (NOS), Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency, Rockefeller University, Swiss Telecom, US Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, World Trade Center Amsterdam, and many others.

• Author and co-author of publications on proposals management, project management, forecasting in urban government, jobs creation, and other subjects.

On the Web:

• Participant in private sector funded projects pertaining to the future of internet-related infrastructure and to the development of internet-based programs and tools that further individual- and collective-driven, rather than corporate- and marketing-driven, economies and cultures.

In Academics:

• Former William J. Fulbright Scholar in the History of Art and Architecture.

• Specialist in the history of Ottoman-era architecture and the architectural patrimony of ethnic and religious minorities in Southeast Europe and present-day Turkey.

• Researcher in the history and analysis of national identities and the connections between urban history and the history of philosophy.

• Publications on Ottoman architecture, the history of Balkan Muslims, and the history and historiography of European Roma (Gypsies).

In the Arts:

• Collected, exhibited, and grant-winning medium-format architectural and portrait photographer.

• Award-winning writer/director of documentary and promotional films.

Biography:

• Native New Yorker; dual citizen of the USA and the Netherlands. Currently working from bases in Brooklyn, New York and in Southeast Europe (Sofia, Bulgaria and Istanbul, Turkey).

• Languages: Fluent English and Dutch; conversational Bulgarian, German, and Spanish; some Hebrew and French; very rudimentary Turkish.

• Graduate of Seward Park High School on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, AB degree in Philosophy (Guilford College), graduate fellow in Philosophy (Boston College), MS in Urban Affairs and Policy Analysis (New School for Social Research).

• Current volunteer activities: Advocacy for preservation of Christian and Muslim architectural monuments, co-founder of a private foundation supporting the educational needs of minority students in southeast Europe, activist in exposing and combating antisemitism in Western and Eastern Europe.

Availability:

• Available for strategic and change consultancy, project and interim management, coaching and training, communications, and writing assignments worldwide.

• Also available for architectural and industrial photography and photo-journalistic assignments from selected companies, institutions, and publications.