2020-2021 Advisory Council
Jens Aerts
Team Lead, Climate Resilience Planning, Sweco
Afnan Agramont Akiyama
Associate Professor, Universidad Catolica Boliviana
Andrew Altman
Principal, Fivesquares Development
M. Cemil Arslan
Secretary General, Marmara Municipalities Union
Sahar Attia
Professor of Architecture and Design, Cairo University, Managing Director, Associated Consultants
Madhav Badami
Associate Professor, School of Urban Planning and McGill School of Environment
Harshad Barde
Director, Swach Pune Seva Sahakari Sanstha
Solly Benjamin
Senior Advisor, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Alain Bertaud
Senior Research Scholar, Marron Institute of Urban Management, New York University
Gautam Bhan
Senior Lead, Academics and Research, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Saul Billingsley
Executive Director, FIA Foundation
Eugenie L. Birch
Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research & Education, University of Pennsylvania
Nadine Bitar
Thought Leader, Place-Led 4.0 and Director, Placemaking.me
Joel Bolnick
Special Advisor, Slum Dwellers International
Samuel Bonnet
Senior Advisor, International Committee of the Red Cross
Uwe S. Brandes
Faculty Director, Urban & Regional Planning, Georgetown University
Harriet Bulkeley
Professor, Department of Geography, Durham University
Yves Cabannes
Emeritus Professor of Development Planning, Chair of Development Planning, University College London
Ezgi Küçük Çalışkan
Urban Planning Coordinator, Marmara Municipalities Union
Maruxa Cardama
Secretary General, SLoCAT Partnership
Vanesa Castán Broto
Professorial Fellow, Sheffield Urban Institute and Department of Geography, University of Sheffield
Alice Charles
Lead, Cities, Infrastructure & Urban Services, World Economic Forum
Winston Chow
Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Singapore Management University
Amelia Clarke
Associate Dean of Research & Associate Professor, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo
William (Billy) Cobbett
Director, Cities Alliance
Lisa Conibear
Business Manager, Shell Foundation
Clarisse Cunha Linke
Country Director, ITDP Brazil
Richard Dobson
Co-founder and Project Leader, Asiye eTafuleni
Skye Duncan
Director, Global Designing Cities Initiative at NACTO
Amanda Eichel
Executive Director of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy
Karim Elgendy
Lead Sustainability Consultant, Dar
James Evans
Professor, Human Geography, Manchester University
Anthony Flint
Senior Fellow, Office of the President, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Marta Foresti
Director, ODI Europe
Geraldine Gardner
Executive Director, Centralina Council of Governments
Haluk Gerçek
Emeritus Professor, Istanbul Technical University (ITU)
Mehrnaz Ghojeh
Programme Manager, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
Bipashyee Ghosh
Research Fellow, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
Cristina Gil
Vice President of Sustainability, Orbia
Diza Gonzaga
Director, DetranRS
Cynthia Goytia
Professor and Director of the Graduate Program on Urban Economics, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Louise Harpoth
Chief Operating Officer, Phoenix Design Aid
Fiona Harvey
Environment Correspondent, The Guardian
Matt Hoffman
Managing Partner, HousingTech Ventures
Jordi Honey-Roses
Research Associate, Institute for Environment, Resources and Sustainability (IRES)
Naomi Hoogervorst
Programme Officer, Senior Urban Planner, UN Habitat
Neil Jeffery
Chief Executive Officer, Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP)
Guilherme Johnston
Head of Global Partnerships, Connected Places Catapult
Nigel Jollands
Associate Director, EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
Michael Keith
Director, Peak Urban Research Programme, and Professor, COMPAS, University of Oxford
Ethan Kent
Executive Director, PlacemakingX
Thomas Kerr
Principal Climate Policy Officer, International Finance Corporation
Annette M. Kim
Associate Professor, Sol Price School of Public Policy, USC
Florian Koch
Professor of Real Estate Management, Urban Development and Smart Cities
Dražen Kučan
Lead Urban and Energy Efficiency Specialist at Green Climate Fund
Monika Kuffer
Assistant Professor, University of Twente
Suman Kumar
Project Lead, GIS & Urban Planning, Urban Expansion Observatory
Amitabh Kundu
Distinguished Fellow, Research and Information System for Developing Countries
Debolina Kundu
Professor, National Institute of Urban Affairs
Levent Kurnaz
Climate Scientist & Science Communicator
Pawan Kumar Labhasetwar
Scientist and Head, Water Technology and Management Division, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute
Hyun S. Lee
Senior Program Officer, Global Green Growth Initiative
Loretta Lees
Professor, Human Geography, University of Leicester
Nora Libertun de Duren
Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University
Anthony Ling
Urbanist, Founder and Editor of Caos Planejado
Barbara Lipietz
Associate Professor, Development Planning Unit, University College London
Juan David Correa Lopez
Director, Communications and Public Relations, Metro de Medellin
Ana Mercedes Lozano Celis
Social Management Team, Metro de Medellin
Niels Lund
Vice President, Global Prevention and Health Promotion, Novo Nordisk
Darshini Mahadevia
Visiting Professor, Ahmedabad University
Martha Martorelli
Planning Manager, Brazil Ministry of Cities
Joy A. Mboya
Executive Director, The GoDown Arts Centre, Nairobi, Kenya.
Timon McPhearson
Professor and Director, The New School
Diana Mitlin
Professor of Global Urbanism and Managing Director of the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester.
Ana B. Moreno
Director, Tomorrow.City
Braulio Eduardo Morera
Director, 50L Home
Robert Mukiza
Deputy Director & Representative to Ethiopia, African Union Commission and UNECA, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
Juan Carlos Munoz
Professor of Transport Engineering and Logistics; Director of Center of Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS)
Michael Murphy
Founding Principal and Executive Director of MASS Design Group
Harini Nagendra
Professor, Azim Premji University
Sameh Naguib Wahba
Global Director, Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice
Shipra Narang Suri
Coordinator, Urban Planning and Design Branch at UN-Habitat
Lakshmi Narayan
Co-founder, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat Trade Union
Patric Ndlovu
Co-founder and Senior Project Officer, Asiye eTafuleni
Jeff Olson, R.A.
Senior Advisor, Alta Planning
Mary Jane C. Ortega
Special Advisor, Y-PORT Center, City of Yokohama & Special Advisor, CITYNET
Suchismita Pai
Freelance Writer, Women's Feature Service Contributor, UNESCO
Lincoln Paiva
President, Green Mobility
Mpho Parks Tau
Deputy Minister, Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Sue Parnell
Global Challenges Professor of Human Geography at the University of Bristol and Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town
Peter Peltzer
Assistant Professor, Spatial Planning and Urban Futures, University of Utrecht
Rodrigo Perpetuo
Executive Secretary, ICLEI South America
Ayikai Poswayo
Program Director, Amend
Patricia Purcell
Senior Strategic Adviser, UN Global Compact
Steven Ramage
Head of External Relations, GEO Secretariat
Anu Ramaswami
Professor, Director Sustainable Healthy Cities; Chadha Center for Global India
Rob Raven
Professor, Monash University
Shirley Rodrigues
Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy, City of London
Harald Rohracher
Professor of Technology and Social Change, Linkoping University
Rodrigo Rosa
Consultant
Diego Rybski
Deputy Head, CCD Group, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Deger Saygin
Director, SHURA Energy Transition Center
Libby Schaaf
Mayor, Oakland, USA
Seth Schultz
Global Executive Director, The Resilience Shift
Burucuhan Sener
International Cooperation Coordinator, Marmara Municipalities Union
Karen C. Seto
Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Jonathan Silver
Senior Research Fellow, University of Sheffield
Andrew Simmons
Director of Urban Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, Resilience Brokers
Caroline Skinner
Director, Urban Research, WIEGO
Gabriel Nii Teiko Tagoe
Chief Development Planner, Accra Metropolitan Assembly
Luis Quintanilla Tamez
Policy Analyst, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
John Taylor
Cofounder and Strategic Advisor, Kota Kita
Bronwen Thornton
CEO, Walk21
Christina Y.P. Ting
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Jonas Torrens
Postdoctoral Researcher, Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development; Associate Fellow, Urban Futures Studio
Aytaç Ünverdi
Director, Civil Works Department, Eskisehir Metropolitan Municipality
Maria Vassilakou
CEO, Vassilakou Urban Consulting GmbH
Sandro Vieira
Partner and Executive Director of World Trade Center, WTC Curitiba
Molly Webb
Founder, Energy Unlocked
Jeffrey Witte
Executive Director, Amend
