Michael Storper

The panel session featured Tracy Gordon of the Urban Institute, Professor Stephanie Rickard of LSE's Department of Government, Professor Andrés Rodríguez-Pose of LSE's Department of Geography and Environment.

The session was chaired by Michael Storper, Professor of Economic Geography at LSE.

All right, um, welcome to panel two, Responsibilities, Power, Resources.

My name's Michael Storper.

Um, I've co-convened this along with Peter Trubetz.

I wanna thank the Phelan Center for the fantastic work they've done in, um, organizing this along with us.

I ha-- must say that I am also an exception, uh, here, because I think I'm the first, uh, non-- either non-US citizen and non-- someone not based in an American institution talking at this conference.

So, um, the whole presentation in one slide.

I'm a professor in the International Relations Department here and the director of the Failing United States Center, which is hosting, uh, tonight's, uh, roundtable and the conference tonight and tomorrow.

The idea for this conference grew out of a series of conversations with Professor Michael Storper, who's up here in the front row, of the Geography Department.

Um, we started having this conversation, uh, over a year ago about the deep political and social divisions roiling America and the extent to which the nation's system, uh, for dividing governing authority, uh, is amplifying, uh, these divides.

And one thing led to another, and soon we landed on the idea of convening a public-facing conference.

The panel session featured Tracy Gordon of the Urban Institute, Professor Stephanie Rickard of LSE's Department of Government, Professor Andre Rodriguez-Posay of LSE's Department of Geography and Environment.

The session was chaired by Michael Storper, Professor of Economic Geography at LSE.

All right.

Welcome to panel two, Responsibilities, Power, Resources.

My name's Michael Storper.

I've co-convened this along with Peter Trubutz.

I want to thank the Phelan Center for the fantastic work they've done in organizing this along with us.

I must say that I am also an exception here because I think I'm the first either non-US citizen and someone not based on an American institution talking at this conference.

I'm a professor in the International Relations Department here and the director of the Fallon United States Center, which is hosting tonight's roundtable and the conference tonight and tomorrow.

The idea for this conference grew out of a series of conversations with Professor Michael Storper, who's up here in the front row of the Geography Department.

We started having this conversation over a year ago about the deep political and social divisions roiling America and the extent to which the nation's system for dividing governing authority is amplifying these divides.

And one thing led to another, and soon we landed on the idea of convening a public facing conference.