Joel Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and Executive Director of the Houston-based Center for Opportunity Urbanism. He is also Senior Advisor to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, Executive Editor of the widely read website New Geography, writes a weekly column for Forbes, and is the author of seven books, including the widely praised The New Class Conflict (2014), which describes the changing dynamics of class in America. He has been described by the New York Times as “America’s uber-geographer,” and is an internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends. His latest book is The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class (2020).