GREG LINDSAY
ABOUT
Greg Lindsay is a generalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker.
He is a non-resident senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, Arizona State University’s Threatcasting Lab, and the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Strategy Initiative. He was the founding chief communications officer of AlphaGeo and remains a senior advisor. Most recently, he was a 2022-2023 urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute, where he explored the implications of AI and augmented reality at urban scale.
Greg speaks frequently about the future of cities, mobility, technology, security, and work, including appearances at 10 Downing Street, the United States Military Academy, Sandia National Laboratories, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Harvard Business School, MIT Media Lab, and Aspen Ideas Festival.
He also speaks frequently to companies (Microsoft, Deloitte, AECOM, Ford, Starbucks), organizations (U.S. Conference of Mayors, Canada Council for the Arts), member associations (ULI, NAHB, NAIOP, SIOR, FIA) and universities (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, NUY, McGill).
He’s been cited as an expert by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, USA Today, CNN, NPR, BBC, and CBC Radio.
Greg’s also a partner at the advisory firm FutureMap, and has advised Intel, Samsung, IKEA, Starbucks, Audi, Hyundai, Tishman Speyer, British Land, André Balazs Properties, Aldar, Emaar, and Expo 2020, along with numerous G20 government entities.
Previously, he was urbanist-in-residence at BMW MINI’s urban tech accelerator, called URBAN-X, as well as director of applied research at NewCities Foundation and founding director of strategy at its mobility-focused offshoot CoMotion.
His work with Studio Gang Architects on the future of suburbia was exhibited at New York City’s MoMA in 2012. His work has also been exhibited at the 15th, 16th, and 17th Venice Architecture Biennales, the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, and Habitat III. He sits on the board of CREtech Climate, and was guest curator of the 2018 and 2019 editions of reSITE.
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Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next,
2011
Greg was a contributing writer for Fast Company and Fortune, and editor-at-large for Advertising Age. He is co-author of the 2011 international bestselling book, Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next.
His writing has also appeared in titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, The Financial Times, McKinsey Quarterly, Time, Wired, The Atlantic, The New Republic, New York, Slate, Quartz, Inc., Politico, The Economist Group, The World Economic Forum, The Nikkei Asian Review, World Policy Journal, and Next City.
Greg speaks frequently about the future of cities, mobility, technology, security, and work, including appearances at 10 Downing Street, the United States Military Academy, Sandia National Laboratories, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Harvard Business School, MIT Media Lab, and Aspen Ideas Festival.
He also speaks frequently to companies (Microsoft, Deloitte, AECOM, Ford, Starbucks), organizations (U.S. Conference of Mayors, Canada Council for the Arts), member associations (ULI, NAHB, NAIOP, SIOR, FIA) and universities (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, NUY, McGill).
He’s been cited as an expert by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, USA Today, CNN, NPR, BBC, and CBC Radio.
Greg’s also a partner at the advisory firm FutureMap, and has advised Intel, Samsung, IKEA, Starbucks, Audi, Hyundai, Tishman Speyer, British Land, André Balazs Properties, Aldar, Emaar, and Expo 2020, along with numerous G20 government entities.
Previously, he was urbanist-in-residence at BMW MINI’s urban tech accelerator, called URBAN-X, as well as director of applied research at NewCities Foundation and founding director of strategy at its mobility-focused offshoot CoMotion.
His work with Studio Gang Architects on the future of suburbia was exhibited at New York City’s MoMA in 2012. His work has also been exhibited at the 15th, 16th, and 17th Venice Architecture Biennales, the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, and Habitat III. He sits on the board of CREtech Climate, and was guest curator of the 2018 and 2019 editions of reSITE.
Greg was a contributing writer for Fast Company and Fortune, and editor-at-large for Advertising Age. He is co-author of the 2011 international bestselling book, Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next.
His writing has also appeared in titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, The Financial Times, McKinsey Quarterly, Time, Wired, The Atlantic, The New Republic, New York, Slate, Quartz, Inc., Politico, The Economist Group, The World Economic Forum, The Nikkei Asian Review, World Policy Journal, and Next City.
Greg is a two-time Jeopardy!
champion (and the only
human to go undefeated against
IBM’s Watson).
champion (and the only
human to go undefeated against
IBM’s Watson).