Richard Florida

Richard Florida
He/Him

Visiting Distinguished Professor, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University

Research Interests/Areas of Expertise

Urbanism, Cities, Innovation, Management, Creativity, Strategy, Entrepreneurship

Subject Areas

Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Business Economics

Biography

Biography

Richard Florida is one of the world’s leading urbanists and international best-selling author of The Rise of the Creative Class. He is Visiting Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt University and University Professor at the University of Toronto and serves as Kresge Foundation Visiting Senior Fellow. He previously taught at Carnegie Mellon University and NYU and has been a visiting professor at Harvard and MIT. He is co-founder of CityLab, the leading publication devoted to cities and urbanism. He provides strategic advice to companies, foundations, and governments worldwide, and serves on the boards of several real estate development firms, venture capital firms, and investment funds.

Consulting

Extensive experience consulting with cities, corporations, real estate, startups, venture capital, universities, family offices, foundations.

Research Interests

Cities, Urbanism, Innovation, Strategy, Business Location

Education

BA, Political Science, Rutgers College, 1979

PHD, Urban Planning, Columbia University, 1986