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Steven Haft is an American media executive, attorney and film producer.

Haft was born inManhattan and raised inFlushing, Queens,^[1] the son of Helen (née Urdang) and Nathan "Nuddy" Haft.^[2] He is a graduate ofHofstra University School of Law^[3] and is a member of the bar of the U. S. Supreme Court.^[4] After studying, Haft produced films for over 20 years includingJakob the Liar andDead Poets Society.^[4]

In 2000, he accepted a position withAOL as vice president and chief strategy officer for its $1.2 billion in sales Interactive Marketing Group. He left AOL to found the media consultancy company Indyworks, which focuses on the impact of emerging technologies on media. His clients includedComcast Cable, theCorporation for Public Broadcasting, theCollege Television Network, AirMedia,Edelman andBurson-Marstellar. He is the senior vice president of innovation for the magazine publisherTime Inc.^[4]

Haft has been involved in environmental issues, human rights and arts in education since the 1970s. He sat on the board of United States' variant ofthe TerraMar Project, which was aUnited NationsNGO that promoted the Clean Oceans provision of the Sustainable Development Goals program,^[4] until TerraMar (US) announced that it had ended operations on July 12, 2019, after the sex trafficking charges againstJeffrey Epstein andGhislaine Maxwell, became public.^[5]

Haft is an advisory board member of the Global Partnerships Forum, which acts as an intermediary linking business entities, government agencies and the United Nations to develop shared goals and efforts. He is an elected member of theMotion Picture Academy and a trusteeemeritus ofRobert Redford'sSundance Institute and was appointed by the New York mayor,Michael Bloomberg, to the board of theBrooklyn Navy Yard Corporation. He is vice chair of the Presidential Scholars Foundation, is aSTEM advisor to the Center for the Study of The Presidency & Congress and has done work for theJohn D. Rockefeller III Fund, theJohn Hay Whitney Foundation, theUnited Automobile Workers and theAmerican Civil Liberties Union. He was a co-founder of the originalEarth Day in 1970.^[4]

He is divorced from the authorLisa Birnbach;^[3][6] they have three children.^[7] He attended theModern Orthodox Jewish synagogueCongregation Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan.^[8]

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

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