2020-2021 Advisory Council

2020-2021 Advisory Council | WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities

Jens Aerts

Senior Urban Planner & CEO, OSLUM

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

Professor, Climate Urbanism, 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

Executive Director, Global Designing Cities Initiative

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

Visiting Senior Fellow, ODI Global

Geraldine Gardner

Executive Director, Centralina Regional Council

Haluk Gerçek

Emeritus Professor, Istanbul Technical University (ITU)

Mehrnaz Ghojeh

Programme Manager, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

Bipashyee Ghosh

Lecturer in Engineering, Innovation and Public Policy, University College London

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

Interim Chief Executive Officer, Earth Active

Guilherme Johnston

Senior Specialist, Interact Programme

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

Senior Investment Operations Specialist - Urban & Water Sectors, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

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 & Faculty Director, Initiative on Cities, Boston University

Nora Libertun de Duren

Head of Knowledge, Urban Development and Housing, Inter-American Development Bank

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

Director, Research Center & Director, School of Climate Change and Sustainability, 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

Gabriel Nii Teiko Tagoe