User:Gnosisnate/Mark Lautman

Mark Lautman is an economic architect and thought leader from New Mexico. His new book, "The Sorting", became available on Amazon.com in mid 2010. Mark Lautman is a Certified Economic Developer (CEcD) and member of the International Economic Development Council. He is gaining notoriety with his theory, E > P, a somewhat gloomy forecast of labor force deficiencies which, he argues, will inevitably drive the ways companies choose their expansion or consolidation locations in the future. He has been invited to speak at TEDx and Google Fiber Campaigns on this topic.

Mark Lautman is also among the earliest to recognize and begin responding to what is generally known as the Home-based Worker phenomenon, in which increasing numbers of companies and workers are choosing to operate out of the employee's home. Mark Lautman currently writes a column for the New Mexico Business Weekly and head his Community Economic Lab.

Mark has been a practicing economic developer for nearly three decades.

Lautman is a founding director of the Community Economics Lab, a private not-for-profit think tank innovating new approaches to economic development that work in a labor and capital constrained economy. He works with states, communities and real estate firms to design and develop new economies.

Mark Lautman is the current Chair of the New Mexico Economic Development Commission.

Under his direction, these programs procured more than 80 corporate locations accounting for more than 15,000 new jobs, 6 million square feet of industrial space, and $11 billion in new investment.

Most recently, Mark was Vice President of Economic Development at Forest City Enterprises and Covington Capital. His business unit was responsible for the design and execution of an economic development master plan to meet the developer’s commitment to create 30,000 net, new economic base jobs for their Mesa del Sol project in Albuquerque NM

Mark is a 1971 graduate of the University of New Mexico in Economics, Architecture and Geography and a former Peace Corps Volunteer.