Greg Lindsay, Director of Applied Research, NewCities

Greg Lindsay is a journalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is the director of applied research at NewCities and director of strategy at its mobility offshoot CoMotion. He is also a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative, a senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab,and a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management. He’s a partner at FutureMap, a geo-strategic advisory firm based in Singapore, and has advised Intel, Samsung, Starbucks, IKEA, Audi, Chrysler, Hyundai, Tishman Speyer, British Land, André Balazs Properties, Aldar, Emaar, and Expo 2020, among many other organizations. He was the inaugural urbanist-in-residence at URBAN-X — BMW MINI’s urban tech accelerator. His writing has appeared in Fast Company, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, and many other publications. He is co-author of the 2011 critically acclaimed international bestseller Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. Greg is a two-time Jeopardy! champion (and the only human to go undefeated against IBM’s Watson).