Richard Florida, Author Who’s Your City & Rise of the Creative Class

Richard Florida is one of the world’s leading public intellectuals. Esquire magazine recently named him one of the ‘Best and Brightest’ in America. he is author of the national and international best-selling book, The Rise of the Creative Class, which received the Washington Monthly’s Political Book Award and was cited as a major breakthrough idea by the Harvard Business Review. o his latest book, Who’s Your City? has been hailed a National Best-Seller, an International Best-Seller and Amazon Book of the Month. he is Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and Professor of Business and Creativity at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Previously, Florida help professorships at Carnegie Mellon University, a visiting professor at Harvard and MIT, and a visiting fellow of the Brookings Institution. Florida earned his Bachelor’s degree from Rutgers College and his Ph.D. from Columbia University.