 In January 2007, Dr. Blakely was appointed by the Mayor of New Orleans to head the recovery effort following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Blakely is Executive Director of the Office of Development and Recovery Administration.He has served as a policy advisor to the mayor of Oakland and advisor to the Los Angeles Public School District. He organized and led the Oakland response to the earthquake in1988 and The Oakland Fire in 1991 the largest urban fire in the 20th Century. He moved to New York just prior to the attacks at Ground Zero and became one of the leaders in the City recovery effort helping guide the citizen and community planning effort. In addition he serves on a number of task forces and commissions at the local, state, national and international levels on urban disaster recovery. He was appointed by President Clinton as Vice Chair of the Presidio Trust where he played a key role in the development of the former army base to a profitable civic facility. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Planning Association, the Nature Conservancy, and Fulbright Association. Dr. Blakely was appointed and is on leave as the fourth Chair of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Sydney in 2003. Before taking the Sydney Chair, Dr. Blakely was the Dean of Management and Urban Policy at the Milano Graduate School at the New School University, New York. Previously he was Lusk Professor of Economic Development and Dean of the School of Urban Planning at the University of Southern California. He served as Chair of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley for 10 years where he was also co-director of the Institute for Urban and Regional Development. He has directed several research centers in the United States at leading universities and his research funding has averaged over US$2 million per year for the past 20 years. He is the author or co-author of 8 books and more than 150 scholarly articles.
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