Bruce Katz

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Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program | The Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair in Urban and Metropolitan Policy

Bruce J. Katz is a vice president at the Brookings Institution and founding director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. He is also co-author of The Metropolitan Revolution (Brookings Press, 2013), a distillation of his work on the emerging metropolitan-led "next economy" and its practitioners around the country working to produce more and better jobs driven by innovation, exports and sustainability.

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Recent Activity

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  • In the News

    [Rick] Snyder is one of the governors who most gets the economic importance of the city. Without Detroit, Michigan cannot recover.

    May 5, 2013, Bruce Katz, Financial Times

  • Opinion

    Atlanta Can Flourish in Global Economy

    April 22, 2013

  • Speech

    GCI Atlanta: Greater Atlanta and the Next Economy

    March 20, 2013

  • Past Event

    Going Global: Boosting Metro Atlanta's Economic Future

    March 20, 2013

  • In the News

    [Appointing an emergency manager to oversee Detroit's finances] is a very hard decision [Michigan's] governor had to make, it's always politically controversial to have the government intervene in this way, but it is the right decision to get Detroit back on its feet.

    March 15, 2013, Bruce Katz, msnbc.com

  • In the News

    I think Detroit faces some of the toughest challenges of any American city.

    March 6, 2013, Bruce Katz, The Craig Fahle Show-WDET

  • In the News

    It’s not just waiting for government to do something [for the economy]. A lot of the actions that need to be taken in [Rhode Island] really could be taken by private, civic and university leaders. The economy is co-produced. It’s not produced by government. It’s produced by networks of leaders.

    February 27, 2013, Bruce Katz, Rhode Island Public Radio

  • In the News

    If you ask a particular citizen or business located in Boston or a suburb of Boston why they stay, they’ll tell you they want clean streets, they want safe streets, they want good schools, they want fluid traffic and transport options, they want a government that’s actually transparent.

    February 20, 2013, Bruce Katz, Business Insider

  • Opinion | Ideas Laboratory

    The U.S. Must ‘Race to the Shop’ to Spur Economic Growth

    February 12, 2013

  • Past Event

    Envisioning Home

    January 30, 2013

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Expert Information

Contact

Email Bruce Katz

+1.202.797.6277

202.797.6105 — Brookings Office of Communications

Resources

Expertise

  • Community reinvestment
  • Demographic trends
  • Economic development
  • Government reform
  • Housing
  • Poverty
  • State and local policy
  • Social policy
  • Transportation reform
  • Urban and metropolitan policy
  • Urban and regional politics
  • Welfare reform

Experience

Current Positions

  • Visiting Professor, London School of Economics

Past Positions

  • Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1993-96)
  • Staff Director, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs (1992-93)
  • Senior Counsel, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs (1987-92)
  • Associate, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson

Education

  • J.D., Yale Law School, 1985
  • B.A., Brown University, 1981

Language Fluency

  • English

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Download the Sizing the Clean Economy iBook for iPad

Findings from our report on the green jobs sector now are available in an iBook for the iPad, which can be downloaded from Apple's iTunes Store. The iBook features Bruce Katz's presentation and speech, providing insight about how the clean economy can propel U.S. metropolitan areas into a new next economy.

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"[Rick] Snyder is one of the governors who most gets the economic importance of the city. Without Detroit, Michigan cannot recover."

Source: Financial Times

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