Bruce Katz

Bruce Katz is the co-founder and inaugural director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab.

Katz regularly advises global, national, state, regional and municipal leaders on public reforms and private innovations that advance the well-being of metropolitan areas and their countries.

Katz is the co-author of The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism (Brookings Institution Press, 2018) and The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy (Brookings Institution Press, 2013). Both books focus on the rise of cities and city networks as the world’s leading problem solvers.

Moving away from traditional one-size-fits-all approaches that emphasized Starbucks, stadium-building, and stealing businesses, municipal leaders are instead crafting metropolitan business plans that grow jobs from within, building on their distinct market advantages.
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