Janno Lieber

John Nathan "Janno" Lieber (born September 19, 1961) is the head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York. He was appointed acting chair and CEO in July 2021 and confirmed permanently in January 2022.

Early life and career Lieber was born on September 19, 1961, to Charles and Mimi Levin Lieber. Charles was a president of the Hebrew Publishing Company and Mimi was a member of the New York State Board of Regents. Through his mother he is related to the prominent Levin political and legal family of Michigan; his maternal grandfather was Theodore Levin, former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and his uncle Charles Levin was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, while his distant cousins Carl, Sander, and Andy Levin have all represented Michigan in the United States Congress.

In the 1980s, Lieber was a journalist at The New Republic.

He worked as a transportation policy advisor during New York City Mayor Ed Koch's administration. In a 2015 interview with The New York Times, he described himself as "a jack-of-all-trades," saying, "I do everything from financing to the legal to the design and construction to the P.R. and government relations."

Metropolitan Transportation Authority In 2017, then-governor Andrew Cuomo appointed Lieber to be the MTA's chief development officer.

In July 2021, Cuomo nominated Lieber to serve as acting chair and CEO, following the retirement of Pat Foye.

On January 25, 2023, Lieber rode with Hochul on the first train to the new Grand Central Madison station, part of the East Side Access project.