Dr. John Mollenkopf is the Director of the Center for Urban Research and Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center of CUNY. Before joining the Graduate Center in 1981, he was Director of the Economic Development Division at the New York City Department of City Planning and taught urban public management at Stanford Business School. Dr. Mollenkopf has been Wibaut Chair Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam and chaired the Research Committee on New York City of the Social Science Research Council and was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. He serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards, was a consultant to the New York City Redistricting Commission in 1991, and also advised the Charter Commissions that reformed New York City government in 1989-90. He has authored or edited ten books on urban politics and urban policy, most recently Place Matters: A Metropolitics for the 21st Century, with Peter Dreier and Todd Swanstrom. Dr. Mollenkopf received his B.A. from Carleton College and his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.