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Joel Kotkin is a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute in the Regional and Demographic Studies group examining the relationship between metropolitan real estate markets and high-tech startups. He is an expert on global and regional economic, political and social trends. Kotkin is also a Senior Fellow at the Davenport Institute for Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He is the author of numerous books including Tribes: How Race Religion and Identity Determine Success In the New Global Economy and The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape. Kotkin is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Opinion section as well as a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post. Kotkin attended the University of California, Berkeley.