PROFILE
In addition to his role as Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, Dr. Florida is professor of Business and Creativity at the Rotman School. He is the founder of the Creative Class Group , a global think tank based in Washington, DC. Prior to joining the Rotman School he was the Hirst Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and a senior scientist with the Gallup Organization. Prof. Florida taught for nearly two decades at Carnegie Mellon University and has been a visiting professor at MIT and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He earned his bachelor’s from Rutgers College and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His books include three best sellers: The Rise of the Creative Class (Basic Books, 2002), The Flight of the Creative Class (Harper Collins, 2005) and Who’s Your City (Basic Books, 2008).
Richard Florida’s complete C.V.

CURRENT PROJECTS
Creative Industries and the Creative Economy, Global Creativity, Jurisdictional Advantage, Mega-regions, Music & the Entertainment Economy, Ontario in the Creative Age, Prosperity in the Creative Age, The Geography of Happiness, The Idea Factory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Who’s Your City: Why the place you choose to live is the most important decision you’ll ever make.
Florida, R. (2008). Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most. Basic Books.

Inside the Black Box of Regional Development – Human Capital, the Creative Class and Tolerance
Florida, R., Stolarick, K., and Mellander, C. (2008). Inside the black box of regional development—human capital, the creative class and tolerance. Journal of Economic Geography.
Creativity, connections and Innovation: a study of linkages in the Montreal Region
Stolarick, K., & Florida, R. (2006). Creativity, connections and innovation: a study of linkages in the Montreal Region. Environment and Planning A, 38(10), 1799 – 1817.
Cities and the Creative Class
Florida, R. (2005). Cities and the Creative Class. Routledge
The Economic Geography of Talent
Florida, R. (2002). The Economic Geography of Talent. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 92(4), 743-755.

IN THE MEDIA
Press

Column in The Globe and Mail newspaper
The Wall Street Journal (April 12, 2008)
Toronto Eye Weekly (April 9, 2008)
Harvard Business Review (March 2008)
Toronto Star (January 29, 2008)

More appearances in the press. . .

Radio
CBC Radio 1’s Here and Now (April 1, 2008)

Television
CBC’s The National on Richard Florida (May 23, 2008)
Authors at Google presents Richard Florida (March 20, 2008)
Nashville’s Tennessee Mornings (March 19, 2008)
The Colbert Report interviews Richard Florida (July 16, 2007)

More Television and Radio appearances…

MEDIA EXPERTISE

Richard welcomes media enquiries on the following subjects:

• The “creative class”
• Regional development and prosperity
• Innovation, both in industry and elsewhere
• Demographic trends