Barry Katz

Barry Katz was educated at McGill University in Montréal, the London School of Economics, and holds a doctorate from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is Emeritus Professor of Industrial and Interaction Design at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and formerly Adjunct Professor in the Design Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, at Stanford University.

In addition to his academic affiliations, as IDEO Fellow Barry worked for more than 20 years with the world’s leading design and innovation consultancy and continues to consult with governments, companies, and academic institutions worldwide. He is the author of 8 books, and his writings on design as a strategy of innovation have appeared in many academic, professional, and popular journals.

His current activities include postwar reconstruction in Ukraine, the post-pandemic workplace in Silicon Valley, and the M.Des. program at U.C. Berkeley.