Following his tenure as the mayor of the city of New York for three terms from 1978-1989, Mr. Koch returned to law practice in the regulatory area. His career in government began in 1966 when he was elected to the New York City Council. In 1968, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served on the House Committee on Banking and the Appropriations Committee. He also was secretary of the New York Congressional Delegation.
Mr. Koch has written several autobiographical books, including: Mayor, 1984; Politics, 1985; His Eminence and Hizzoner, 1989; All the Best: Letters from a Feisty Mayor, 1990; Citizen Koch, 1992; Ed Koch on Everything, 1994; Giuliani: Nasty Man, 1999; I’m Not Done Yet: Remaining Relevant, 2000; Buzz: How to Create It and Win with It, 2007 and The Koch Papers: My Fight Against Anti-Semitism, 2008. His works of fiction are: Murder at City Hall, 1995; Murder on Broadway, 1996; Murder on 34th Street, 1997; and The Senator Must Die, 1998. Mr. Koch has written two children's books with his sister, Pat Koch Thaler, Eddie, Harold's Little Brother, 2004 and Eddie's Little Sister Makes a Splash, 2007.
In 2004, Mr. Koch was appointed by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell as Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the Conference on Anti-Semitism sponsored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The conference, held in April 2004 in Berlin, Germany, was extraordinarily successful in binding the 55 member nations in their resolve to reduce and seek the elimination of rising anti-Semitism by enacting civil legislation and educating the youth throughout the world of the dangers of anti-Semitism. He is known and praised as a public figure with the common touch, a leader who is a “voice of reason.” In April 2005, he was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by President George W. Bush for a five-year term.
Mr. Koch hosts a Friday radio program on Bloomberg AM 1130 (WBBR) and is also a commentator on that same station. He is a weekly guest on NY1 television and each week writes a political column and movie reviews.Mr. Koch appeared daily on the television series The People’s Court from 1997 to 1999 as the judge. He lectures around the country, writes a weekly commentary, and his weekly movie reviews are published in The Villager.
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