Michael
Gallis, Michael Gallis & Associates
 As
a new global age emerges, New Jersey more than any other state
is being presented with significant new opportunities and
enormous new challenges. The emerging global changes include
an integrated global network for moving people, goods, and
information around the world. A new global economic geography
now dominates economic relationships and a new economy, based
on the globalization of the marketplace and new technologies.
New Jersey stands on the forefront of the changing world, and
occupies an important position, and plays a key role in he
global, continental, and Northeast urban and economic
networks. In his session, Michael Gallis will present the
findings of the first phase of a study to determine New Jersey’s
position and competitive resources in the new global age.
Gallis is widely considered the country's leading expert in
large-scale metropolitan regional development strategies. He
has pioneered a specialty in building frameworks through which
public, private and institutional leaders can work effectively
to create globally competitive regions. Through these
frameworks, Gallis has mobilized leaders across the country to
understand and develop new ways of responding to the
challenges and opportunities of states and regions in the 21st
century.
Michael Gallis &
Associates, a strategic planning and design firm, was formed
in 1988. Since that time, the company has grown to become a
multi-disciplinary firm offering a wide variety of planning,
real estate and information services to a broad range of
public, private and institutional clients across the country.
Gallis has led in-depth
development programs for a number of regions including
Detroit, Cincinnati, Memphis, West Michigan and Charlotte, as
well as for several states, including Connecticut, Rhode
Island and New Jersey. Through these programs, Gallis has
developed innovative strategies for enhancing the long-term
development of regional systems, resources and communities.
His projects have resulted in strong regional consensus and
new public, private and institutional coalitions for promoting
and developing strategic regional development programs.
He has been a featured speaker
and seminar leader for a variety of national meetings and
conferences on subjects ranging from urban development and
regional planning to transportation and economic development.
Gallis and his firm have received many awards and honors,
including a National Design Award from the U.S. Department of
Transportation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and
two National Economic Development awards for work on the
Concord-Cabarrus Sourcebook.
Gallis has served on numerous
boards and commissions, including the Governor's Commission on
a Competitive North Carolina, the Advisory Board of the
International Congress of the Atlantic Rim, the Mint Museum
and the Mayor's International Cabinet. He also was selected to
join a technical assistance team sent to Poland, sponsored by
the U.S. Department of State, to provide advice on major
metropolitan development, and is a Fellow of the Institute of
Urban Design in New York.
Gallis was an associate
professor of architecture and planning in the College of
Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
from 1974 to 1997. In 1990 he was selected as the first Fellow
at the Institute of Urban Studies. Gallis attended the
University of Southern California, and received a Bachelor's
degree in Architecture from the University of California,
Berkley. He also received two Master's degrees - one in
Architecture and one in City Planning - from the University
of Pennsylvania. |
