Fred Siegel is a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute's Center for Civic Innovation, a City Journal contributing editor, and is an expert on market-friendly public-policy solutions for urban governance. He has made his intellectual home at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City for over twenty years. Before joining the faculty of Cooper Union, Mr. Siegel was a visiting professor of Modern American History at the University of Paris. He has also taught at Columbia University, Queens College, and Empire State College.

In the 1990s, Mr. Siegel was a major intellectual force in the revitalization of declining American cities in the 1990s. As a senior advisor to Rudolph Giuliani's 1993 mayoral campaign, he wrote one of Mr. Giuliani's path-breaking speeches on quality of life. He was also one of the original editors of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal.

Mr. Siegel is author of The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life (Encounter Books 2005),