Bruce Katz

is a vice president of the Brookings Institution and Director of its Metropolitan Policy Program. He is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and is a frequent writer and commentator on issues of urban and metropolitan growth and competitiveness. Katz served as Chief of Staff to Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, from 1993 to 1996, and as Staff Director of the United States Senate Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs.