The Citistates Group

Neal Peirce

Chairman, The Citistates Group

Co-author of Citistates: How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World. Syndicated columnist, Washington Post Writers Group. Author of 10-book series on U.S. states and regions.

Curtis Johnson

President, The Citistates Group

Co-author of Citistates. Former board chair, the Metropolitan Council of Minneapolis-St. Paul, community college president and state government official.

Farley Peters

Manager and Vice President, The Citistates Group

Public policy specialist, networker and speaking agent for the Group.

Camille Cates Barnett

Managing director of City of Philadelphia; former city manager of several cities in Texas and Washington D.C.,

Gail Christopher

Expert on holistic health issues, currently Vice President for Health Programs at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.

David Crockett

Former IBM executive. Founder of Chattanooga Institute for Sustainability, consulting group focusing on applying principles of sustainable communities, former chair, Chattanooga City Council.

William Dodge

Principal of Regional Excellence Consulting; former Executive Director of National Association of Regional Councils; author of books and articles on regionalism and regional government structures.

Thomas M. Downs

President/CEO of the Eno Transportation Foundation. Former CEO of Amtrak, New Jersey Commissioner of Transportation and director, National Association of Homebuilders.

Seth Fearey

Silicon Valley business executive, 20 years with Hewlett Packard. CEO of Connected Communities, specializing in communities’ development of information infrastructure.

Richard C.D. Fleming

An active civic entrepreneur in business and government. Currently President of the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association; previously president of the Greater Denver Chamber of Commerce and HUD executive.

Anthony Flint

A veteran journalist long focused on development issues, now with the Lincoln Institute of land Policy. Author of This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America.

William Fulton

Journalist, urban planner, commentator and author on urban planning, metropolitan growth, and economic development. Author; editor of California Planning and Development Report; contributor to Governing magazine.

John Stuart Hall*

Professor at the School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University; specialist in regional governance and university-community linkages. A co-author of Citistates.

Lenneal Henderson

Professor of Government and Public Administration and chair of the William Donald Schaefer Center at the University of Baltimore. Lecturer on on metropolitan and environmental issues across the U.S. and internationally.

Doug Henton*

Founder of Silicon Valley firm, Collaborative Economics; specialist in regional economic development strategies involving civic alliances; founder of the Alliance for Regional Stewardship.

Jon Hockenyos

An Austin, Texas-based economist focused on the dynamics of change in cities and urban regions.

William Hudnut

Former mayor of Indianapolis, leading that city’s renaissance over 16 years. Author of Cities on the Rebound. Presently senior resident fellow for public policy at the Urban Land Institute.

Jane Holtz Kay

Boston-based urban writer; author of Asphalt Nation and Boston-based urban writer; author of Asphalt Nation and upcoming Last Chance Landscape, on global warming.

Peter Katz

Author, consultant, developer and community builder; founding Executive Director of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Expert on form-based codes and other urban planning tools.

Daniel Kemmis*

Civic philosopher and author. Former Montana legislator, Mayor of Missoula, and currently Director of the multi-state Center for the Rocky Mountain West at the University of Montana.

Robert Lang

Director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech in Alexandria, Virginia; author of Edgeless Cities: Explaining the Elusive Metropolis.

Richard Louv

Observer and author on life and community (America II, Childhood’s Future, Last Child in the Woods and others). Columnist for the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Alex Marshall

Author, architecture and planning reporter, a commentator on cities and the dynamics of their transportation systems and physical environment. Senior editor, New York Regional Plan association and the Institute of Urban Design.

Robert McNulty

Founder-president of Partners for Livable Communities, advancing agencies of quality of life and inclusive civic structures in communities of all income and demographic groups.

Jonathan Miller

Author of Emerging Trends in Real Estate, the leading commercial real estate industry outlook report embracing urban futures.

Myron Orfield

President of Ameregis, creator of reports analyzing economic-social disparity and inefficient land uses in over 40 U.S. regions. Former Minnesota State Senator and expert on regional tax-base sharing.

+ John Parr

John served during his career as Director, Alliance for Regional Stewardship. Principal of CIVIC RESULTS and president of the National Civic League.

Manuel Pastor

Co-Director, Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community at the University of California-Santa Cruz. A trailblazer in connecting the interests of minority and disadvantaged communities with the economic and social futures of entire citistates.

Scott Polikov

“Recovering” attorney, urban planner, rail activist, policy consultant, and a civic entrepreneur from Austin, Texas.

Charles Royer

Former 12-year mayor of Seattle and president of the National League of Cities. Presently leads the Institute for Community Change.

Samuel Seskin

Portland-based transportation and land use specialist. Expert on transit-oriented development.

Keith Schneider

Journalist - producer -public policy strategist, Keith Schneider is a New York Times special correspondent, founded the Michigan land Use Institute, and directs communications for the Apollo Alliance.

William Shutkin

Educator, environmentalist, social entrepreneur and former foundation president.

Beth Siegel

Founder and President of Mt. Auburn Associates, a New England-based economic development consulting firm promoting economic growth and stability, job generation, and more efficient capital markets.

Ron Sims

Three times elected Executive of King County, Wash., Sims is a leader among U.S. elected officials in calling for early, strong regional action plans to combat global warming.

William Stafford*

President, Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle; former deputy mayor of Seattle with a specialty in intergovernmental relations. Premier leader of regional study tours to world citistates.

Kim Walesh

Expert in economic competitiveness and civic leadership, director of San Jose’s economic strategy for Silicon Valley, co-founder of Collaborative Economics.

Marc A. Weiss

Founder and leader of the Global Urban Development, a global cities think tank operating in Washington, Prague, Barcelona and other cities. Focused on regionalism, housing and economic development issues under HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros.