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James has over 30 years of experience working on planning and urban design projects around the world, which has provided him with a deep understanding of cities as complex “systems of systems”, whose long-term success requires comprehensive and integrated strategies and approaches that balance the physical development of the built and natural environment, with sustainable…

Adam Hosking is Jacobs’s Global Director for Water Resources Solutions, with responsibility for services including flood and coastal risk management, ecosystem restoration and climate change adaptation. With a background in coastal geomorphology, he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management and Chartered Scientist with more than 24 years’ experience in…

Jason is the Head of the U.S. south water resources solutions segment and Florida resilience practice at Jacobs Engineering Group, together with U.S. network chair of the U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s ARISE network. Risk reduction efforts involve a range of subject matters such as climate change, resource demands, social values, extreme events and…

Brendan C. Byrne’s fiction has appeared in Terraform, Dark Mountain, Imperica, Flapperhouse, and FLURB, his criticism in Motherboard, The Intercept, Arc, New Scientist, The Baffler, and Rhizome. Along with Ingrid Burrington, he received a 2019 Mozilla Creative Media Award for their epistolary newsletter novella The Training Commission.

Ingrid Burrington writes, makes maps, and tells jokes about places, politics, and the weird feelings people have about both. She’s the co-author of The Training Commission with Brendan C. Byrne, and the author of Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Internet Infrastructure.

Dr. Anthony Townsend works at the intersection of urbanization and digital technology. He is the author of two books: Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car (2020) and Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for A New Utopia (2013)—both published by W.W. Norton & Co. Anthony is the founder of Star City Group,…

Dr. Peter Engelke is a Deputy Director and Senior Fellow within the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center on Strategy and Security. His diverse work portfolio at the Center’s Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative spans global and regional futures, geopolitics and international affairs, innovation and technological disruption, climate change and natural resources, and global urbanization among other…

David is CHBA’s lead on climate resiliency, engaged with both Canadian Standards Association (CSA) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRCC) in the development of resiliency guidelines and standards related to flooding, wind damage and wildfire risk. David is also a member of CSA’s Construction and Civil Infrastructure Strategic Steering Committee, and serves on…

Jesse M. Keenan* is a social scientist and a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Design, with a joint appointment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, in Science, Technology and Public Policy at Harvard University. Keenan’s principle research focus is on climate change adaptation and the built environment, including aspects…

Thaddeus Pawlowski is a leader in climate-resilient urban design and planning. Through research and practice, he is responding to the climate emergency by creating new methods for designing and planning the built environment. Using place-based, design-driven workshops, he facilitates collaboration across disciplines at Columbia University (law, policy, earth science, engineering, public health, business)and with governments,…

Dr. Missy Stults is the Sustainability and Innovations Manager for the City of Ann Arbor. In this role, she works with all city operations, residents, businesses, the University of Michigan, nonprofits, and others to make Ann Arbor one of the most sustainable and equitable cities in America. Prior to joining the City, Missy worked with…