Brian Leary is a Visiting Lecturer at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he teaches the senior-level and graduate seminar, "Integrating Design, Construction & Development."

Leary's academic focus is the training of students in critical thinking with an emphasis on real world implementation within the real estate development environment. He has spent his 10 year career developing the largest urban brownfield redevelopment in the United States while assembling opportunities for future mixed-use and urban redevelopments.

Brian is Vice President of AIG Global Real Estate - the real estate arm of the international insurance company redeveloping the historic Atlantic Steel property in Midtown, Atlanta. He oversees the development master plan, vertical development, marketing and public relations for the largest urban brownfield redevelopment in the nation. Since joining the project in 1997 he has developed the master plan into a National model for Smart Growth and new urbanism. Brian successfully negotiated with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Atlantic Station, and the new 17th Street multi-modal bridge, to become the first ProjectXL and transportation control measure of its kind in the United States.

Prior to joining the Atlantic Steel team, Brian worked for Atlanta's downtown development organization, Central Atlanta Progress (CAP). With CAP and COPA, Inc. (the non-profit development arm for the Centennial Olympic Park area) Brian helped implement the first tax-increment-financing district in the State of Georgia, the Centennial Park area overlay zoning district and expansion of the Downtown Improvement District (DID).

He received his Bachelor of Science in 1996 from the Georgia Institute of Technology with minor certificates in Land Development and Real Estate, and his Master of City Planning in 1998 from the Georgia Institute of Technology.