Bruce Katz
 Bruce Katz     (deep state functionary?, lawyer, urban planner) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | June 21, 1959 Brooklyn, New York, United States | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||||||
| Ethnicity | Jewish | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Brown University, London School of Economics, Yale University | |||||||||||||
| Member of | Brookings Institution | |||||||||||||
Brookings Institution urban planner who predicted that "cities and metropolitan areas will be the engines of economic prosperity and social transformation in the United States". Attended the 2014 Bilderberg.
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Bruce J. Katz is an American lawyer, urban policy expert and author.[1] The author of a 2013 Brookings Institution book The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy[2], predicting that "cities and metropolitan areas will be the engines of economic prosperity and social transformation in the United States"[3], he attended the 2014 Bilderberg meeting.
Bruce Katz is the Co-Founder (with Jeremy Nowak) of New Localism Advisors. The mission of the firm is to "help cities design, finance and deliver transformative initiatives that promote inclusive and sustainable growth."[4]
As of 2024, he is Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University, having formerly been the inaugural Centennial Scholar and Vice President at the Brookings Institution.
Education
Katz graduated with a B.A. from Brown University in 1981. At Brown, Katz received a Harvey A. Baker Fellowship and attended the London School of Economics from 1979 to 1980.[5] He received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1985.
Career
He was chief of staff to Henry Cisneros, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, from 1993 to 1996 [6] and previously was senior counsel and then Staff director of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Katz advises federal, state, and local leaders on shifting demographic and market trends as well as on policies that are critical to metropolitan prosperity (e.g., innovation, human capital, infrastructure, housing) and new forms of metropolitan governance. After Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, Katz co-led the housing and urban transition team and was a senior advisor to Shaun Donovan, the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, for the first 100 days of the Obama administration.[7]
Katz has been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics[8] and in 2006 won the 12th Annual Heinz Award for Public Policy.[9] He was recognized for his work "re-imagining the function and value of cities and metropolitan areas and profoundly influencing their economic vitality, livability and sustainability".[10] In 2011, Katz was named a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council.[11]
Katz founded and previously was director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, which aims to provide decision makers in the public, corporate, and civic sectors with policy ideas for improving the health and prosperity of cities and metropolitan areas.[12]
Katz was the inaugural Centennial Scholar at the Brookings Institution.[13]
Katz is as of 2024 the Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University. He is the co-author with Jeremy Nowak of The New Localism.[14]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2014 | 29 May 2014 | 1 June 2014 | Denmark Copenhagen Marriott Hotel | The 62nd Bilderberg, with 136 guests, held in Copenhagen |
References
- ↑ https://www.albany.edu/news/releases/2005/dec2005/katz_roundtable.shtml
- ↑ https://www.brookings.edu/books/the-metropolitan-revolution-2/
- ↑ https://cre.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Metropolitan_Revolution.pdf
- ↑ https://www.thenewlocalism.com/bruce-katz/
- ↑ https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/events/regional_outreach/2001/urban_conf/bios.htm%7Caccess-date=2021-10-17
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/28/us/hud-s-chief-seeks-wide-new-powers.html
- ↑ http://sev.prnewswire.com/government/20090213/NY7054913022009-1.html
- ↑ http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/LSEhousing/events/default.asp
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081201090917/http://www.law.yale.edu/news/3480.htm
- ↑ http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients/bruce-katz
- ↑ https://archive.today/20120802075206/http://www.di.net/about/senior_fellows/
- ↑ https://www.brookings.edu/experts/bruce-katz
- ↑ https://www.brookings.edu/experts/bruce-katz/
- ↑ https://www.brookings.edu/book/the-new-localism/
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