Paul F. Levy

Paul F. Levy is the former President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston and a resident of Newton, Massachusetts. A graduate of McBurney School in New York City, class of 1968, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class of 1972. He is currently Senior Advisor at Lax Sebenius LLC, a negotiation consultancy firm. He is also Visiting Professor at the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London.

Levy assumed the position as President and CEO of BIDMC in 2002. Levy was previously Executive Director of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, where he was famous for leading the "Boston Harbor Cleanup". He published a description of conditions that led to sewage treatment facilities failures he dubbed the Nut Island effect in 2001. Levy also served as Chairman of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities and Executive Dean for Administration of Harvard Medical School. He was a member of the MIT Corporation is a member of the Board of ISO New England. He is the co-author of Negotiating Environmental Agreements, 1999.

In 2012, Levy published Goal Play! Leadership Lessons from the Soccer Field, a book that offers insights from sports, health care, business and government to help leaders get better outcomes. As a practical guide to improved leadership, the book highlights unconventional thinking and actions that can be used to bring about outstanding results.

In 2013, Levy published How A Blog Held Off the Most Powerful Union in America, presenting the story of how he used social media to fend off a corporate campaign by the Service Employees International Union.

In 2014, Levy and Farzana Mohamed published How to Negotiate Your First Job, a guide to young professionals entering the work force.

Levy is often invited by health care organizations throughout the world to give speeches on eliminating preventable harm, transparency of clinical outcomes, and front-line driven process improvement. He was invited to be a Thinker in Residence at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia, from November 2015 through March 2016.

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