Biography
Bruce Katz is the Founding Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University, where he has launched a National Housing Crisis Task Force for the U.S. He began working with CASE in 2002 and has provided a comparative U.S. perspective on industrial, innovation, housing and urban dynamics and policies and city and metropolitan governance. He served in the Clinton and Obama Administrations at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and is a member of South Yorkshire Mayor Oliver Coppard’s Economic Advisory Council.
Bruce Katz's current research interests are:
- Urban and metropolitan economies
- Urban and metropolitan governance
- National/local industrial, innovation and housing policies
- Reindustrialization and manufacturing
- Downtowns and innovation districts
Bruce's latest projects include:
- National Housing Crisis Task Force (U.S.)
- Investment Playbooks
- Procurement Playbooks
- Inclusive Entrepreneurship