Amanda Burden is an American urban planner who is a Principal at Bloomberg Associates, an international consulting service founded by Michael Bloomberg. It was supposedly designed as a philanthropic venture to help city governments improve the quality of life of their citizens. Burden was the Director of the New York City Department of City Planning and Chair of the City Planning Commission under Mayor Bloomberg from 2002 to 2013. She has also worked for the New York State Urban Development Corporation. She worked on Battery Park City from 1983 to 1990. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Burden is the daughter of socialite Babe Paley and her first husband, Stanley G. Mortimer Jr., who was an advertising executive, and heir to the Standard Oil fortune. Her grandfather, Stanley Grafton Mortimer Sr., was a stockbroker. The Mortimer family was a powerful New Yorker bloodline, which made their fortune as bankers and merchants. Amanda’s paternal great-grandfather, Richard Mortimer, was a real estate investor. Her other paternal great-grandfather, Henry Morgan Tilford, was a Standard Oil founder. Amanda married Shirley Carter Burden Jr. of the Burden bloodline. He was a great-great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Membership Roster at cfr.org:
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“Tory Burch
Amanda Burden
Jesse A. Burdick”

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