Stephen Stamas

STEPHEN STAMAS is a not-for-profit administrator and public policy adviser and the author of Lincoln Center: A Promise Realized, 1979–2006, co-written with Sharon Zane.

Stamas earned an AB from Harvard University in 1953, a B.Phil. from Oxford University in 1955 as a Rhodes Scholar, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1957. He served in the U.S. Bureau of the Budget and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Policy in the U.S. Department of Commerce before serving as a corporate vice president at Exxon Corporation.

When not writing, Stamas has held leadership roles across major cultural institutions, including president of the New York Philharmonic from 1984 to 1989, its chairman from 1989 to 1996, and vice chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts from 1986 to 1996. He is Director Emeritus of Lincoln Center and has chaired the American Assembly of Columbia University and the Marlboro School of Music.

Stephen Stamas’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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