Speakers The 2006 Conference on the Small City will feature four distinguished keynote speakers: William Hudnut III, Bruce J. Katz, Joel Kotkin, Dr. Don Kettl and Dr. Owen Gutfreund. William H. Hudnut, III currently occupies the Urban Land Institute/Joseph C. Canizaro Chair for Public Policy at the Urban Land Institute in Washington, DC. Former four-term Mayor of Indianapolis and Congressman, author, public speaker, TV commentator, think tank fellow, elected official, and clergyman, Hudnut is dedicated to promoting quality land use and influencing public policy through research and education. However, Hudnut is probably best known for his sixteen-year tenure as Mayor of Indianapolis, 1976-1991. His stated goal was to build a "cooperative, compassionate and competitive" city. He established "a national reputation for revitalizing his Midwestern city," (The Washington Post) and came to be regarded as "an entrepreneurial leader willing to take prudent risks" (The Toledo Blade). He spearheaded the formation of a public-private sector partnership that led to Indianapolis' emergence during the 1980s as a major American city. A past president of the National League of Cities and the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns, Hudnut helped Indianapolis record spectacular growth during his sixteen years in office Hudnut sponsored seventeen bills that became public law as a Congressman. He is currently serving as Mayor of Chevy Chase, Maryland and is a member of the Board of the National League of Cities. He was a member of the Millennial Housing Commission appointed by Congress during 2001-2002. Prior to his entry into public life, as a clergyman he served churches in Buffalo, New York, Annapolis, Maryland, and Indianapolis, Indiana. After stepping down as Mayor, Hudnut held posts at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, the Hudson Institute in Indianapolis, and the Civic Federation in Chicago, before assuming his current position with ULI in 1996. A much sought-after speaker, "spirited...with high energy eloquence," (The Toledo Blade) Hudnut "gives life to the word charismatic" (The Cincinnati Enquirer). Hudnut's authored works also include Minister Mayor (1987), a book reflecting on his experience in politics and religion; The Hudnut Years in Indianapolis, 1976-1991 (1995), a case study in urban management and leadership; and Cities on the Rebound (1998), an analysis of clues to the successful city of the future. Hudnut is the recipient of many awards, including Princeton University's highest alumni honor, the Woodrow Wilson Award for public service (1986); City and State magazine's "Nation's Outstanding Mayor of 1988"; the Rosa Parks Award from the American Association for Affirmative Action in 1992; and the Distinguished Public Service Award from the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns (1985). Hudnut graduated from Princeton University with high honors and election into Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated summa cum laude from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He has received honorary degrees from thirteen colleges and universities. Hudnut is married to the former Beverly Guidara and has six children. Jennifer S. Vey is a Senior Research Associate at the Brookings Institution whose work primarily focuses on the competitiveness and quality of life of central cities and regions in the new economy. She is the author of "Higher Education in Pennsylvania: A Competitive Asset for Communities," and has co-authored several other Brookings publications, including "Back to Prosperity: A Competitive Agenda for Renewing Pennsylvania," "Demographic Change in Medium-Sized Cities: Evidence from the 2000 Census" and "Seizing City Assets: Ten Steps to Urban Land Reform." Prior to joining Brookings in June, 2001, Jennifer was a Community Planning and Development Specialist at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where she assisted urban Empowerment Zones in implementing their strategic plans. She earned a Master of Planning degree from the University of Virginia in 1997, and holds a B.A. in Geography from Bucknell University. An internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political, and social trends, Joel Kotkin is the author of the newly published, critically acclaimed The City: A Global History from Modern Library. He is also author of the widely acclaimed, best-selling book, The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape (Random House, 2000). Kotkin is an Irvine Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and is a highly respected speaker and futurist. He consults for many leading economic development organizations, private companies, regions, and cities. In addition, Kotkin serves as senior advisor to the Planning Center, a major planning, design and environmental consulting firm based in Costa Mesa, California. For three years, he was Business Trends Analyst for KTTV/Fox Television in Los Angeles where, in 1994, he won the Golden Mike Award for Best Business Reporting on the changing dynamics of the entertainment industry. Mr. Kotkin wrote the highly-acclaimed monthly "Grass Roots Business" column in The New York Times' Sunday Money & Business section for nearly three years. He is currently a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Sunday Opinion Section. For five years he served as West Coast editor for Inc. Magazine and continues to contribute to the publication and produce the "Best Places" annual analysis. His work also appears in The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, The American Enterprise, and The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Kotkin has completed studies on the future of several major cities, including New York, St. Louis, Phoenix , Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, and the Inland Empire region of Southern California. In November 2005, in association with the Planning Center, he finished a year long study on the future of suburban development. He is currently completing a study for the Reason Foundation on the future of transportation mobility in the United States. Mr. Kotkin lectures widely in the United States, Asia, and Europe and has addressed both Democratic and Republican Congressional groups. He has testified before the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress, the State of California Economic Strategy Panel; and is highly sought after as a speaker by major business and financial organizations. Mr. Kotkin attended the University of California, Berkeley. A native New Yorker, he has lived in California since 1971. Mr. Kotkin is married to Mandy Shamis, has two daughters, Ariel and Hannah, and lives in the Valley Village section of Los Angeles. Donald F. Kettl is Stanley I. Sheerr Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Fels Institute of Government and Professor of Political Science. He is also Nonresident Senior Fellow in Washington’s Brookings Institution. Professor Kettl is a student of public policy and public management and specializes in the management of public organizations. He has appeared on national television on shows ranging from Good Morning America and the CBS Evening News to public television’s News Hour, and on radio shows around the United States and Canada. He has testified frequently at congressional hearings in Washington and contributed to op-ed pages in major newspapers, including The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, and The Los Angeles Times. Since 1998, he has been writing a regular column for Governing magazine, "Potomac Chronicle," which is read by leading state and local government officials around the country. Professor Kettl is the author or editor of a dozen books and monographs, including: System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics; The Global Public Management Revolution, 2nd ed.; The Politics of the Administrative Process (with James W. Fesler), 3rd ed.; The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for the 21st ; and Leadership at the Fed. Two of his books are co-winners of the Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration for the best book published in public administration: The Transformation of Governance (awarded in 2003) and System under Stress (awarded in 2005). He is the recipient of the Donald C. Stone Award of the American Society for Public Administration for significant contributions to the field of intergovernmental management (2005); and the Charles H. Levine Memorial Award of the American Society for Public Administration, in recognition of contributions to research, teaching, and outreach (1998) Kettl recently served on an international advisory team to the Danish Forum for Top Executive Management, which devised a code to guide governance in Danish government. He also chaired the Wisconsin Governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Campaign Finance Reform and the Wisconsin Governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on State-Local Partnerships for the 21st Century. He has consulted for a broad array of public organizations, including the U.S. Departments of Defense, Energy, Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury; the Forest Service, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Budget, the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Commission on the Public Service (Volcker Commission), and the National Commission the State and Local Public Service (Winter Commission). He has advised the White House, during both Republican and Democratic administrations, and has worked with the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Prior to his appointment at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Kettl taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vanderbilt University, the University of Virginia, and Columbia University. Professor Kettl has earned his bachelor's and doctorate degrees from Yale University. He is a fellow of Phi Beta Kappa and the National Academy of Public Administration. He is also a shareholder in the Green Bay Packers. Owen D. Gutfreund, Ph.D. teaches history and urban studies at Barnard College, Gutfreund serves as director of the joint Barnard-Columbia undergraduate Urban Studies Program. His area of specialty is urban history in the United States and from a global perspective. His most recent book, 20th Century Sprawl: Cities, Highways, and the Decentralization of the United States (Oxford University Press, 2004), discusses the overhaul of the U.S. over the last century, as government highway-building programs have encouraged automobile use and guided the citizenry towards the undeveloped countryside, away from crowded and congested urban areas, with devastating consequences for American cities. Gutfreund is now working on Cities Take Flight: Airports, Aviation, and Modern American Urbanism, a book discussing the impact of airports and air travel on American cities and towns. He is also an associate editor for the 2nd Edition of the Encyclopedia of New York City. Gutfreund was formerly a vice president at the investment banking firm Lazard Freres & Company, where he worked in public finance, assisting states, cities, and public benefit corporations in raising funds for a wide range o purposes. He is active in civic affairs, serving as chairman of the New York Council for the Humanities, vice-chairman of Blythedale Children's Hospital, and as a founding member of the board of The Skyscraper Museum.