Carl Selinger, Manager - Business Development for the Port Authority's Aviation Department, develops travel services and business initiatives for Kennedy International, LaGuardia and Newark International airports -- together, one of the world's largest airport systems. His motto is "Ideas are always welcomed!"

Selinger handles programs that return $10 million annual revenues, including: airport advertising; prepaid phonecards; the CNN Airport Network; and airport Internet kiosks. Selinger's 30-year Port Authority career has spanned transportation planning, strategic planning and aviation. Past projects: developing preconditioned air systems at aircraft gates; managing 5,000 public telephones at all Port Authority facilities; marketing Pan Am's $500 million major maintenance base at JFK; planning the express bus lane on the I-495 Lincoln Tunnel approach; managing the Manhattan Staggered Work Hours Program; authoring the Port Authority's first "Strategic Plan"; and the Air Brook shuttle between Ridgewood (NJ) and EWR.

Selinger holds civil and transportation engineering degrees from The Cooper Union, Yale University, and Polytechnic University. He is active professionally: Airport Council International (ACI) Business Information Technologies Steering Group; American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE); and Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS), for which he was just honored as the Greater NY Chapter's "1998 Member of the Year." Among many professional committee activities, Carl is Honorary Member of the Sperry Transportation Board of Award, and chaired ASCE's National Transportation Policy Committee.

He has extensive college teaching experience: Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering at Cooper Union teaching urban transportation courses for over 20 years; graduate-level air transportation course at SUNY Maritime College; transportation engineering and marketing courses at Pace University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and City College of New York. Selinger is faculty advisor to Cooper Union's student chapter of Tau Beta Pi (the national engineering honorary society), which elected him "Eminent Engineer" and named him "Most Active Alumnus" in 1994. Carl is very active in alumni activities and was Cooper Union's "1993 Alumnus of the Year."

Among his diverse professional interests, Carl leads focus groups and "Synectics" brainstorming sessions. He originated and conducts a unique seminar -- "Stuff you don't learn in engineering school" -- to acquaint young engineers with non-technical "real world" issues like setting priorities, negotiating, running meetings, writing and speaking more effectively, and being happier persons.

Selinger lives with his wife, Barbara, and college-age children -- Doug, Jeff and Debbie -- in Bloomfield, New Jersey.