Ron Huberman

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Ron Huberman is the current President of the Chicago Transit Authority.^[1]From 2005 to 2007, Huberman served as Chief of Staff for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. Before that Huberman was in the Chicago Police Department for nine years.^[2]^[3]

Ron Huberman was named Executive Director for the Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) on April 7th, 2004. The City of Chicago, Office of Emergency Management and Communications is charged with protecting life and property by managing the public safety communications system and coordinating major emergency response.

Huberman has worked for the Chicago Police Department since 1995 in various capacities. In the 1990s, he worked in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side and also patrolled the lakefront on a bicycle. Huberman has been essential in positioning Chicago as a leader in state-of-the-art policing strategies critical to fighting crime throughout the City.

As the Assistant Deputy Superintendent for the Office of Information and Strategic Services, Huberman led the Research and Development, Information Services, and Records Services Divisions and the Office of Information and Strategic Services. In this capacity he formed the partnership with the Illinois State Police to expand statewide the Department's award-winning Citizen and Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting (CLEAR) system, of which he is a principal architect. This expansion will result in a new statewide database called I-CLEAR, that will enable all law enforcement in the state of Illinois to share critical crime information in real time. Currently, CLEAR shares information with 242 local, state and federal law enforcement and criminal justice agencies. Huberman also launched Operation Disruption, an innovative strategy aimed at curbing violence and illegal narcotics activity. The program was recently expanded to include a gun-shot detection system aimed at reducing police response times for firearms-related crimes.

Prior to being named Assistant Deputy Superintendent, Huberman served as Chief of Staff to the Deputy Superintendent for Administration where he managed bureau operations, designed and implemented strategic plans for the Personnel, Records, Finance, Information Services and Research and Development Divisions. He also worked as part of a senior management team charged with developing crime fighting strategies and improving the effectiveness of the Department's community policing. In addition to serving in command positions, Huberman has also served as a beat and tactical gang team officer.

Huberman's involvement in national policing programs include designing a Middle-East policing program, and researching homicide prevention protocols for the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-D.C. based organization of progressive police executives. He also served as a trainer for the Community Policing Consortium administered by the United States Department of Justice.

He has received numerous awards: 22 Honorable Mentions; a Department Commendation; a Special Commendation; and Officer of the Month. In 2002, he received the national Gary B. Hayes Award for Innovation in Policing and most recently accepted CIO Magazine's Enterprise Value Award for CLEAR.

Huberman, 32, holds a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago, where he was both an Albert Schweitzer and a Soros Fellow. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Wisconsin. He is a Chicago native, and has been a resident of the Uptown community for the past three years.