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Elizabeth Currid-Halkett holds the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning and is professor of public policy at the Price School at the University of Southern California. Currid-Halkett previously held the Kluge Chair in Modern Culture at the Library of Congress and a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.

Currid-Halkett is the author of The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art and Music Drive New York City (Princeton University Press 2007); Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) and The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class (Princeton University Press, 2017), which was named one of the best books of the year by The Economist, and most recently The Overlooked Americans (Basic Books, June 2023), which received a Kirkus starred review. Her books have been published in multiple languages.

Currid-Halkett’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Salon, the Economist, the New Yorker, and the Times Literary Supplement, among others. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network and has been a member of the WEF Global Future Councils and Industry Strategy Officers. Currid-Halkett lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three sons.

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