GSI Annual Meeting speaker Bruce Katz, the inaugural Centennial Scholar at the Brookings Institution - Sept 27
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Greater Spokane Inc.'s keynote speaker for the Annual Meeting is Bruce Katz, Centennial Scholar at the Brookings Institution. Bruce is co-author of The Metropolitan Revolution, which argues that cities have become the vanguard of policy innovation and problem-solving in the United States and the world.
To register for the event, see this link.
More information about Mr. Katz and the Brookings Metropolitan Planning program:
Katz assumed this cross-institution role in January 2016 after 20 years as the vice president and co-director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, which he founded in 1996. He is also co-author of The Metropolitan Revolution (Brookings Press, 2013), which argues that cities have become the vanguard of policy innovation and problem-solving in the United States and the world.
As Brookings’s only centennial scholar, Katz and his team collaborate with experts throughout Brookings and beyond to develop new models of finance, growth, and governance in cities and nations. He regularly advises cross-sector metropolitan, national, and global leaders on public reforms and private innovations that advance the well-being of metropolitan areas and their countries.
Katz heads the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Initiative on Innovation and Placemaking, a collaboration with the New York-based Project for Public Spaces focused on cross-disciplinary approaches to city building. He is also one of the leaders of the Brookings Project on 21st Century City Governance.
Recent publications of interest from the Metropolitan Policy Program:
From the Metropolitan Revolution group at Brookings, July 2017, Katz: The Paris model for city problem-solving
Report published June, 2017, Wagner, Vey, Davies, and Storring: Advancing a new wave of urban competitiveness: The role of mayors in the rise of innovation districts
Coming in January, 2018, new book by Katz & Nowak: The New Localism – How Cities can Thrive in the Age of Populism
From Amy Liu, Feb. 2016: Remaking economic development: The markets and civics of continuous growth and prosperity
