John Kasarda

个人简介

John D. Kasarda is an American academic and airport business consultant focused on aviation-driven economic development. He is a faculty member at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, the CEO of Aerotropolis Business Concepts LLC (an airport-economy consulting firm) and the President of the Aerotropolis Institute in China. He was the founding editor-in-chief of Logistics, an open-access journal published by MDPI. Kasarda is often referred to as "father of the aerotropolis", in which aerotropolis is a term used by Kasarda to describe a metropolitan subregion whose infrastructure, land use, and economy are centered on an airport – a phenomenon also known as an airport city.