Warren A. Brown is Senior Research Associate at Cornell University where he directs the Program on Applied Demographics and is the Research Director of the New York Census Research Data Center, a consortium of research institutions in the New York metropolitan area and upstate New York. His teaching, research and outreach efforts involve him with the application of demographic information to areas such as strategic planning for workforce and economic development, consumer behavior and market analysis, households and housing market analysis, regional transportation planning, hospitality and recreation industries, health services for the elderly, and environmental protection.