Ed Garza has served over 20 years as an elected public official in San Antonio. In 2001 at the age of 32, he became San Antonio’s youngest mayor in the city’s history. He served two terms as Mayor, and had previously served two terms as the District 7 City Council representative. In May of 2009 Garza was elected to the San Antonio Independent School District Board of Trustees, and served as the board’s President from 2012-2015.
Garza’s intuitive depth in human relations and built environments has translated into a legacy of achieving results in the areas of community regeneration, strategic partnerships, public education advancement, public-private investments, public policy, vision implementation and economic development in Texas and throughout the world.
He has over two decades of experience working for private planning, design, and development firms as well as local, state and national government entities. He is currently a Managing Partner at Chile Media in San Antonio, and previously served as Principal for the Texas Region at engineering firm AECOM. In addition, Garza has taught as an adjunt professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio and at St. Mary’s University.
Garza has an extensive speaking portfolio in the United States and around the world, and has served on numerous for-profit and non-profit boards in San Antonio and nationally. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University where he received a Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture and a Master’s in Land & Real Estate Development.