Gordon Price, 62, is Director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University. He sat on City Council in Vancouver, B.C., for six terms from 1986 to 2002. He also served on the Board of the Greater Vancouver Regional District (Metro Vancouver) and was appointed to the first board of the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (TransLink).

He is also a long-time columnist for Business in Vancouver.

Gordon speaks on urban issues and the development of Vancouver in cities around the world, and is also a regular lecturer on transportation and land use for the City of Portland, Oregon and Portland State University.

He sits on the Boards of the Sightline Institute and the International Centre for Sustainable Cities.

Gordon is also an enthusiastic photographer, and has been documenting Vancouver and other cities since the early 1980s.

He has written several essays on Vancouver and transportation issues (The Deceptive City , Local Politician's Guide to Urban Transportation). In 2003, he received the Plan Canada Award for Article of the Year - "Land Use and Transportation: The View from '56" - from the Canadian Institute of Planners.