PETER M. WOLF is an investment manager, author, land planner, and urban policy authority. His books and professional reports confront issues in American urbanism and investment strategy at every scale from raw land to densely inhabited cities.

A Yale, Tulane and New York University graduate, after earning his Ph.D. Wolf was elected Chairman of the Board of Fellows of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, and appointed Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture at Cooper Union. Over the years he has received honors, awards and grants from the Fulbright Commission (Fulbright Fellow to Paris), the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford Foundation, The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, The National Research and Education Trust Fund, and has been a short-term visiting artist/scholar at the American Academy in Rome.

His most recent book, Land Use and Abuse in America: A Call to Action, published in 2010, advances key themes that have emerged from his practice. In it he demonstrates, "In the past, all across America, at every level of geography and at every scale of community, the natural land and essential pure water have been treated harshly and unwisely with adverse consequences." (For more information go to: www.petermwolf-author.com).

His prior books constitute a suite of interrelated inquiries which confront problems in American planning and resource management in the cities, in the suburbs, in small towns, in the sparsely settled countryside and on the open land. Beginning with The Evolving City: New Directions in Urban Planning (1974) and then continuing through to Land in America: Its Value, Use and Control (1981), and Hot Towns: The Future of the Fastest Growing Communities in America (1999), Wolf addresses central issues confronting America. Along the way he offers experience-based investment suggestions and design guidance. (These books are available at: www.amazon.com).

In recent years, Dr. Wolf's land planning and investment advisory firm has expanded into Peter Wolf Associates, Inc., an investment management practice undertaken on behalf of a group of selected families. His office is at 19 West 44th. Street, New York, New York 10036.

Philanthropic activities are an aspect of his daily life. Among other commitments, he is the Founder and Chairman of the Thomas Moran Trust, Inc. This non-profit organization is devoted to restoring and opening to the public the long neglected Thomas Moran studio house and garden, a designated National Historic Landmark, located at the gateway to the historic district in East Hampton, New York. (For more information go to www.thomasmorantrust.org).

His hobbies, avocations and digressions include playing tennis, making watercolors, traveling to remote places, biking, canoeing, kayaking, enjoying his family, and serving as a trustee of several other non-profit arts and preservation organizations.