Adam Bruns

Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

Adam Bruns is editor in chief and head of publications for Site Selection magazine, where he served as managing editor from February 2002 until fall 2023. In the course of reporting hundreds of stories for Site Selection, Adam has visited companies and communities around the globe. A St. Louis native who grew up in the Kansas City suburbs, Adam is a 1986 alumnus of Knox College, and resided in Chicago; Midcoast Maine; Savannah, Georgia; and Lexington, Kentucky, before settling in Greater Atlanta with his wife and daughter.

Articles By This Author

‘Employers Definitely Need to Prepare’

Last fall, waiting out the time before a departure over a pastrami on rye and a beer at a large Midwestern international airport, I had one of the more interesting airport conversations of my life with a stranger who sat down across the table.

INNOVATION ECONOMY: Fuel For The Engines

A new accelerator supports best practices in workforce development across community and technical colleges in NSF Innovation Engine regions.

MIDDLE – SKILLSJOBS

Report reveals credential shortages in programs aligned with high-paying middle skills jobs in 55 U.S. metro areas.

ECONOMIC OUTCOMES

What your graduates attain has a direct impact on economic development in your community and state.

INTERSTATE CORRIDORS: To Grandmother’s House We Go

Snapshots of the past and future on a stretch of road the author grew up traveling.

Fintech

Two signs of Malaysia’s fintech and financial services ambitions include an entire new zone on an island being developed by a Chinese concern.

Alabama: Homegrown in the Shoals

Larry Lewis and Kim Caudle Lewis are a power couple with purpose in northern Alabama

ASIA

Insights on Chinese inward FDI from MOFCOM’s most recent report.

Data and Conversations Point the Way to Better Education-Jobs Linkage

It can be difficult to align post-secondary education goals with the goals of employers who — despite the growing array of certificates, degrees and other credentials — are still having a hard time filling high-skill, high-wage roles. For students who may have affordability and other challenges, the question is even more direct: Is it worth it for me to even pursue post-secondary education?

VIRGINIA

Realizing a promising opportunity requires a level of commitment equal to the promise — commitment of time, belief, work, capital and people.