institutions to make market-oriented investments in destabilized urban and
rural economies. From February 2002 to February 2006, Dr. Flake served on the
FDIC Advisory Committee on Banking Policy.
Dr. Flake serves as a member of the following boards: The President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education; The Fannie Mae Foundation; The Princeton Review; The New York City Investment Fund Civic Capital Corporation; The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City; and the Bank of America National Advisory Board. Dr. Flake is also a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Social and Economic Policy, an Adjunct Fellow on the Advisory Board of The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, and a member of The NYC 2012 Olympic Committee. He is also a former columnist for the New York Post.
Dr. Flake earned a Doctor of Ministry Degree from the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH, and holds a B.A. from Wilberforce University with additional studies at Payne Theological Seminary and Northeastern University School of Business.