As a leader of the City Readiness team, Kaijia Gu collaborates with business leaders, academics, and policymakers to identify ways that cities can transform potential waves of disorder into new opportunities for innovation, in part by tapping into the potential of their diverse networks of people and organizations. She has lived in major cities around the world most of her life including Beijing, Xi’an, Ithaca, Boston, New York, and London, where she currently lives with her family.
As a leader for the Oliver Wyman Forum’s City Readiness team, Rory collaborates with business leaders, academics, and policymakers across cities to improve global understanding of and solutions to complex problems that require multi-stakeholder action. Recently he has helped develop the Oliver Wyman Forum’s City Readiness for AI index, assessing over 100 cities on their preparedness for the rise of artificial intelligence, and collaborated with the World Economic Forum’s on furthering its Healthy Cities initiative and associated pilot programs.
As a leader of the City Readiness team, Kaijia Gu collaborates with business leaders, academics, and policymakers to identify ways that cities can transform potential waves of disorder into new opportunities for innovation, in part by tapping into the potential of their diverse networks of people and organizations. She has lived in major cities around the world most of her life including Beijing, Xi’an, Ithaca, Boston, New York, and London, where she currently lives with her family.
As a leader for the Oliver Wyman Forum’s City Readiness team, Rory collaborates with business leaders, academics, and policymakers across cities to improve global understanding of and solutions to complex problems that require multi-stakeholder action. Recently he has helped develop the Oliver Wyman Forum’s City Readiness for AI index, assessing over 100 cities on their preparedness for the rise of artificial intelligence, and collaborated with the World Economic Forum’s on furthering its Healthy Cities initiative and associated pilot programs.
Of the US' biggest leases in 2019, over 32 percent were by tech companies, according to CBRE. And while the tech industry has created plenty of job opportunities in major cities, a higher cost of living has sent employees flocking to smaller cities like Sacramento, Austin, and Tucson, who have enjoyed a 27 percent increase in tech jobs.
For more on how small cities are luring tech talent away from metropolises, read more here.
As a leader for the Oliver Wyman Forum’s City Readiness team, Rory collaborates with business leaders, academics, and policymakers across cities to improve global understanding of and solutions to complex problems that require multi-stakeholder action. Recently he has helped develop the Oliver Wyman Forum’s City Readiness for AI index, assessing over 100 cities on their preparedness for the rise of artificial intelligence, and collaborated with the World Economic Forum’s on furthering its Healthy Cities initiative and associated pilot programs.
