DR. RICHARD FLORIDA
 Richard
Florida is the author of the 2002 best-seller The Rise of the Creative Class, which
received The Washington Monthly's Political Book Award for that year and was later
named by Harvard Business Review as one of the top breakthrough ideas of 2004.
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The New York Times called it "an important
book for those who feel passionately about the future of the urban center."
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Cities and regions across the United States and the world
have embarked on new creativity strategies based on Florida's ideas.
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His new book, The Flight of the Creative Class,
which examines the global competition for creative talent, will be published by
HarperBusiness in March 2005.
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Florida is currently the Hirst Professor in the School of
Public Policy at George Mason University and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings
Institution.
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Previously, he was the Heinz Professor of Economic
Development at Carnegie Mellon University, and has been a visiting professor at MIT and
Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
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He is the founder and principal of two companies: the
Creativity Group, an innovative communications and strategies team; and Catalytix, a
strategy-consulting firm.
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Florida earned his Bachelor's degree from Rutgers College
and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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