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About NTX 2050: Our Next Imperatives Series
Our Metroplex is growing and thriving. However, the shaping forces of a pandemic, evolving technology, leadership transitions, politics, demographic changes, legislative direction, and economic and environmental changes impact the potency of prior planning and compel our attention to identify the refinements and next regional imperatives to be addressed.
Regional challenges require solutions brought from collective thought, unified goals and sustained action. These sessions will be the beginning of an ongoing structure to execute the plans needed to enrich and empower our region to thrive for generations.
To support this effort, key programmatic support by NCTCOG, NTC, and ULI has been secured. A structure of underwriting sponsors is needed to defray execution, communication, and convening expenses.
You can read our leader sent to every North Texas Leader by NTC and NCTCOG below.
The original NTX 2050 Plan created in 2000 by NTX Leaders can be found here.
NTX 2050 Series Sponsors
Moderator for Forum 3: Infrastructure: Transportation and Water
Dr. Cullum Clark
Director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative
Dr. Cullum Clark is Director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative and Adjunct Economics Professor at SMU. Cullum’s work focuses on creating prosperous, high-opportunity cities as a path to improving economic mobility in America and advancing the Bush Institute principle of private markets humanized by compassionate government. He co-authored the 2021 book The Texas Triangle: An Emerging Power in the Global Economy. Cullum’s work has appeared in City Journal, Real Clear Policy, and numerous other publications, plus the Freakonomics Radio podcast. He recently published an extensive report on the role of universities and academic medical centers in local and regional economies and is currently working on a report on housing supply and affordability in U.S. cities. Cullum worked in investments for 25 years, founding two firms. He serves on the Board of the Texas charter school network Uplift Education and on several foundation and endowment boards. He earned a B.A. in History from Yale, a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in Economics from SMU.
