Alair
A.
Townsend
TIAA Overseer since 2000
Alair Ane Townsend, 66, was publisher of Crain's New York Business from 1989 to 2006 and vice president of Crain Communications, Inc., from 1993 to 2006. She is now a columnist for the publication. She served as New York City's Deputy Mayor for Finance and Economic Development from 1985 to 1989 and as its Budget Director from 1981 to 1984. She is a board member of the Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority, the Greater New York Councils of the Boy Scouts of America, the Levin Institute of the State University of New York, the Citizens Budget Commission, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the M&T Bank (NYC Area) Advisory Board. She holds a B.A. from Elmira College and an M.S. from the University of Wisconsin.
