A former White House Housing and Urban Development advisor, Brookings Institution Vice President, and current director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University will be the keynote speaker at the seCTer Annual Meeting Dec. 9, at 11 a.m. at Norwich Inn & Spa.
Bruce Katz, who 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, is also a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.
Before Joining Brookings, Katz served as chief of staff to U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros and was the senior counsel and then staff director for the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs. After the 2008 presidential election, Bruce co-led the housing and urban transition team for the Obama administration and served as a senior advisor to new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary Shaun Donovan, for the first 100 days of the Administration.
