Published in China, Spain, Great Britain and the British Commonwealth, editions in Japanese and Korean are planned for later this year.

He is also author of the widely best-selling title, THE NEW GEOGRAPHY, How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape (Random House, 2000). Currently he is writing a book on the American future for Penguin Publishing which will look at how the nation will evolve in the next four decades.

Kotkin is Presidential Fellow at the Roger C. Hobbs Institute at Chapman University in Orange, California. He is a highly respected speaker and futurist and consults for many leading economic development organizations, private companies, regions and cities

He was a Business Trends Analyst for KTTV/Fox Television in Los Angeles where, in 1994, he won the Golden Mike Award for Best Business Reporting on the changing dynamics of the entertainment industry.

Mr. Kotkin wrote the monthly "Grass Roots Business" column in The New York Times' Sunday Money & Business section for nearly three years. He served as West Coast Editor for Inc. Magazine for five years and continues to contribute to the publication. His work also appears in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Weekly Standard, The American and The Wall Street Journal.

Kotkin’s book TRIBES: How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success In the New Global Economy, (Random House, 1993) traces the connection between ethnicity and business success — how in-group loyalties are becoming the driving force in the new global economy. TRIBES has been published in Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and German. He co-authored THE THIRD CENTURY — America's Resurgence in the Asian Era, (Crown,1988). This title was translated into Japanese and Chinese, with a special English edition published for the Pacific Rim.

His first book, CALIFORNIA, INC. (Crown, 1982) dealt with California's links to the emergent powers of the Pacific Rim. Kotkin's novel, THE VALLEY, was published in 1983 by Bantam Books.

Mr. Kotkin has completed studies focusing on several major cities, including New York, St. Louis, Phoenix, Laval, Quebec’s second largest city, Los Angeles, and Houston. In November, 2005, in association with the Planning Center, he completed a year-long study on the future of suburban development. He is currently working on studies on the future of New York’s middle class and on the future of American communities for Reason Foundation and Chapman University.

He lectures widely in the United States, UK, Asia, Australia and Europe and is highly sought after as a speaker by major business and financial organizations.

Mr. Kotkin attended the University of California, Berkeley. A native New Yorker, he has lived in California since 1971. Mr. Kotkin is married to Mandy Shamis, and has two daughters, Ariel and Hannah. He lives in the Valley Village area of Los Angeles.