Bruce Katz is the Co-Founder and inaugural Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab. Katz 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 was the inaugural Centennial Scholar at the Brookings Institution from January 2016 to March 2018, focusing on the challenges and opportunities of global urbanization. In particular, his work codified global models around the strategic use of public assets, including case studies of public asset corporations like Copenhagen’s City and Port, and Hamburg’s HafenCity.

Prior to this role, Katz was a vice president at the Brookings Institution and founding Director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.