Mr. Wright lectures widely on growth management, regional planning and redevelopment, and rebuilding New York City after 9/11. He is a Visiting Lecturer in Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Since 1998 he has also been an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He has previously served as Associate Faculty for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and an Adjunct Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Architecture.

Prior to taking his current position at RPA, he was the Deputy Executive Director of the New Jersey Office of State Planning, where he coordinated adoption of the New Jersey State Development and Redevelopment Plan (2001) and wrote the Executive Summary of the State Plan.

Prior to that, he was Director of Regional Plan Association’s New Jersey office and Governance Campaign. From 1991 to 1993, he was Coordinator of the award-winning Mayors’ Institute on City Design, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Mayors’ Institute organizes forums which educate American mayors about urban design and city planning and their role in the design and development process.

Tom Wright received a Bachelor of Arts in history and a certificate in American Studies from Princeton University and a Master of Science in Urban Planning from Columbia University, where he received a Kinne Fellowship and the American Institute of Certified Planners Outstanding Student Award. He is a member of the Forum for Urban Design and the Riverside South Planning Corporation Board of Directors. He lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife, Cameron Manning, and three daughters.