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Marc A. Weiss
Adjunct Professor
mw2820@columbia.edu
Biography:
Dr. Marc A. Weiss is Chairman and CEO of Global Urban Development (GUD) and Executive Editor of GUD Magazine. He also serves as Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and Chairman of Metropolitan Economic Strategy LLC. In addition, he is a member of the Steering Committees of the United Nations Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership, UN-Habitat World Urban Campaign, UN-Habitat Best Practices and Local Leadership Program, and the Atlantic Council’s Urban World 2030 initiative.
He previously served as: Public Policy Scholar and Editor of Global Outlook at the Woodrow Wilson International Center; Coordinator of the 1998 Strategic Economic Development Plan for Washington, DC; Special Assistant to the Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and HUD Liaison to the President’s Council on Sustainable Development in the Clinton Administration; Director of the Real Estate Development Research Center, Acting Director of the Ph.D. Program in Urban Planning, and Associate Professor at Columbia University; and Deputy Director of the California Commission on Industrial Innovation.
Dr. Weiss is the author or co-author of many books, articles, and reports, including a widely acclaimed book on urban development and planning, The Rise of the Community Builders, and a best-selling international textbook, Real Estate Development Principles and Process, published by the Urban Land Institute.
He has been an adviser on Metropolitan Economic Strategy and sustainable economic, business, employment, and community development for cities and regions in the US and throughout the world, including Brazil, China, Czech Republic, India, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, UK, and the Virgin Islands. GUD helped organize an international conference on Sustainable Economic Development held in Curitiba, Brazil during June 7-8, 2011, sponsored by the Brazil and US Governments and the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA). Currently GUD is working in Brazil on Metropolitan Economic Strategy and Sustainable Economic Development with the Federation of Industries and the State Governments of Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul, focusing on the metropolitan regions of Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre, in partnership with the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI).
Dr. Weiss earned an M.C.P. and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. with Honors in Political Science from Stanford University. Also, he attended the London School of Economics.