Bruce Katz special advisor to IFHP

Bruce Katz with IFHP Jens Kramer Mikkelsen joining forces on the sustainable urban developement arena.

We are extremely happy to announce that Bruce Katz has graciously accepted to be advisor to IFHP.

“There is a need for organizations like IFHP to identify the urban models that work, and to help adapt them to other cities with similar challenges. We need to share the concepts and the tools that propel the necessary changes in our cities to make them better for people to live and thrive in. I am happy to assist IFHP with this important mission.”

Bruce Katz hardly needs further introduction: Housing and urban development professionals know Bruce as a renowned capacity within this field, his significant work on the rise of cities and city networks as the world’s leading problem solvers is well known. The liveability of cities and the fostering of well-being for its citizens is central to Bruce’s work. Equally crucial is identifying urban design and financing models that deliver on the promise of creating liveable, affordable, and sustainable cities – hence adapting these models for other cities and settings. Bruce’s focus and efforts is in profound resonance with IFHP’s purpose.

Bruce Katz is currently the founding director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University in Philadelphia.  During the first term of the Clinton administration, Katz served as Chief of Staff to Henry Cisneros, the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.  Katz then co-led the housing and urban transition team for the Obama administration and served as senior advisor for the first 100 days. He 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.  He is a former vice president at the Brookings Institution and founding Director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, and he is a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. We are very fortunate to be able to wedge in some privileged advisory time for IFHP in his jam-packed high-level agenda.

IFHP, herewith fortified, continues to unfold its purpose of strengthening an active global network of urban professionals, identifying and sharing tools, models and insights – and also co-developing new tools when we see the need for optimization of our tool box – and inspiring action fostering more sustainable, liveable and equitable cities and settlements for all.

For more information on Bruce Katz, visit www.thenewlocalism.com/bruce-katz/

For more information on IFHP, visit www.ifhp.org