Joel Kotkin
R.C. Hobbs Professor of Urban Studies, Chapman University, California; executive director, Center for Opportunity Urbanism

Described by the New York Times as ‘America’s uber-geographer’, Joel Kotkin is an internationally-recognised authority on global, economic, political and social trends.

His latest book, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class, is now available in paperback. He authored THE HUMAN CITY: Urbanism for the Rest of Us in 2016 and co-edited, with MIT’s Alan Berger, the 2018 collection Infinite Suburbia.

Joel is the Roger Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California and executive director of the Houston-based Urban Reform Institute (UrbanReformInstitute.org).  He is executive editor of the widely read website NewGeography.com. He has a regular column in spiked in the UK, the National Post in Canada and the American Mind. He also writes regularly for UnHerd, Quillette, the Los Angeles Times, National Review, City Journal and Newsweek as well as many other national publications.

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