Paul Farmer, FAICP, served as CEO of the American Planning Association from 2001 to 2014; Executive Director of Planning and Development, Eugene, OR., 1999-2001; Director of City Planning, Minneapolis, 1994-1998; Deputy Planning Director, Pittsburgh, 1980-1994; and as a founding professor of the Department of Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1972-1980. A visiting faculty member at the University of Oregon, Georgia Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh, he has lectured widely, practiced and consulted on six continents, and written extensively. He is a co-founder of the Global Planners Network (GPN). Farmer is an Honorary Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia, an Honorary Life Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and an Honorary Member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He serves on advisory boards for the Penn Institute for Urban Research and Community Renewal International. Among various professional awards, he received a Design Excellence Award from Progressive Architecture and a Research Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. He received the Dale Prize from Cal Poly-Pomona and the NYU-Poly 2013 Spirit of Innovation Award. He was a Richard King Mellon Fellow in Planning at Cornell University, and held Lasker and Baker Distinguished Student Fellowships at Rice University. He received his MRP from Cornell and his B.A. and B.Arch. from Rice.