NYC Comptroller Brad Lander 

Comptroller Brad Lander serves as New York City’s chief financial officer, leading an office of roughly 800 public servants in their work to promote the financial health, integrity, and effectiveness of City government and secure a more thriving and sustainable future for all New Yorkers.

Prior to being elected Comptroller in 2021, Lander spent 12 years in the City Council, where he co-founded the Council’s Progressive Caucus and won transformative changes to expand workers’ rights, secure tenant protections, create affordable housing, integrate and strengthen the district’s public schools, and make streets safer.

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NYS Comptroller Tom DiNapoli

A lifelong Long Islander, Tom was raised in a middle-class, union household. In 1972, Tom won his first election for the Mineola Board of Education, becoming the first 18-year-old in New York State to hold public office.

In 1976, he graduated magna cum laude from Hofstra University, then attended night classes to earn his master's degree from The New School's Graduate School of Management and Urban Professions.

In 1986, he ran for the New York State Assembly and was elected to represent the 16th district in northwestern Nassau County for the next 20 years, until his election to Comptroller in 2007.

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Moderator and Former NYC Comptoller Bill Thompson

The Honorable William C. Thompson, Jr. served as the Comptroller for the City of New York from January 2002 to December 2009.

Mr. Thompson is a graduate of Tufts University. Prior to his work as Comptroller, he had served as Brooklyn Deputy Borough President and as a member and five-term President of the New York City Board of Education, and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York.