Brian Bannon Biography

Brian Bannon is a seasoned executive with a track record of transforming strategy into action and effect. Brian is a leader who thrives in high-profile and high-stakes situations because of his ability to apply ingenuity to tackle complicated challenges. Brian has been the Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Public Library since 2012. (CPL). The CPL is Chicago's most frequented civic institution and one of the country's major public library systems. This 140-year-old institution has boldly stepped into the twenty-first century under Bannon's leadership, reinventing conventional services for new audiences and acting as a national example for how huge legacy institutions may adapt. The CPL is demonstrating how cities can turn ancient institutions into bright hubs for innovation, from lending robots that teach youngsters to code to building an advanced manufacturing and 3D printing lab to extending the award-winning digital media lab for adolescents around the city. For this work, Bannon has earned several awards. He was just nominated on Fast Company's list of the "100 Most Creative People in Business for 2016." He was recognized as one of Chicago's top 100 innovators by Blue Sky Innovation, a Chicago Tribune magazine, in 2015. Bannon was also named one of Newcity Lit's Chicago Lit 50 in 2015, and one of Crain's Chicago Business Tech 50 in 2014. Bannon has spoken at the LEGO Ideas Conference, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the City Club of Chicago, the Gates Foundation Global Libraries Summit, the Aspen Institute Forum on Communications and Society, and South by Southwest.

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