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Marc Weiss

May 4, 2009
Marc Weiss.
Dr. Marc A. Weiss is Chairman and CEO of Global Urban Development, an international policy organization with offices in Barcelona, Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Oakland, Prague, Singapore, Sydney, and Washington, DC. He also serves as Chairman of the Climate Prosperity Project (with financial support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Environmental Defense Fund), and as Executive Editor of Global Urban Development Magazine. In addition, he is President of Climate Prosperity Strategies in Rehoboth, Delaware, and a member of the Steering Committee of the United Nations-Habitat Best Practices and Policies Program.
He previously served as a Public Policy Scholar and Editor of Global Outlook at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, as the Coordinator of the Congressionally mandated Strategic Economic Development Plan for Washington, DC, as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton Administration, as Director of the Real Estate Development Research Center and Associate Professor of Urban Development, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, and as Deputy Director of the California Commission on Industrial Innovation.
He 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 a consultant on environmentally sustainable economic and community development in cities and regions in the U.S. and throughout the world, including South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the Czech Republic, and the Virgin Islands.
He 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, plus he attended the London School of Economics in the U.K.
Dr. Marc A. Weiss
Chairman and CE
GLOBAL URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Barcelona, Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Oakland, Prague, Singapore, Sydney, www.globalurban.org