Andrew Altman was appointed Chief Executive of the Olympic Park Legacy Company in 2009. He had previously been Philadelphia's first Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development and Director of Commerce – a position created in 2008, to bring together the planning and economic development functions of the city.
Prior to this role Andrew was the President of Altman Development LLC in New York City. His company worked on behalf of Lubert Adler Management to lead large-scale, urban development projects. Previously, he was the first President and CEO of the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation in Washington D.C., established to guide the revitalization of over 2800 acres of urban waterfront. Andrew was also head of the city’s planning agency where he led the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative from its inception. Before that he held the role of Director of City Planning for Oakland California. His plan for the city received the California American Planning Association Award for Best Comprehensive Plan.
Andrew holds a master’s degree in city planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Arts in geography from Temple University, Philadelphia. He also completed a Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He serves in many advisory and teaching capacities related to urban development and is an Urban Expert to the Urban Age Project of the London School of Economics. He is a German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Fellow and is on the Visiting Committee of the Urban Studies and Planning Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.