People

Our network of contributors

Enid Slack

Apr 07, 2017

Enid Slack is the Director of the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance and Adjunct Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.

William Echikson

Apr 07, 2017

William Echikson served for three decades as a foreign correspondent in Europe for a series of US publications including the Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and BusinessWeek. From 2001 until 2007, he managed the Brussels bureau for Dow Jones as bureau chief. William also has written, directed and produced for television documentaries for…

Lior Steinberg

Apr 07, 2017

Lior Steinberg is an urban planner, currently based in Groningen, the Netherlands. He has obtained his MSc in Urban and Regional Planning from Stockholm University. Lior designs and rethinks public spaces with attention to local and simple interventions.

Pascal Brosset

Apr 07, 2017

With a degree in engineering from the EPFL federal institute of technology (Switzerland), Pascal Brosset joined Schneider Electric as Senior Vice President Innovation in May 2010. In 2002 he joined SAP AG‘s as Vice President Business Development and member of management board in France and was nominated Senior Vice President Market Strategy at SAP AG…

Stephanie Huf

Apr 07, 2017

Stephanie is global Head of Marketing and Communications for Ericsson’s Industry and Society business line. Industry and Society is charged with driving Ericsson’s business expansion into targeted industries, including Utilities, Transportation, and Public Safety, and to lead market development for Smart Sustainable Cities.

Ellis Rubinstein

Apr 07, 2017

Ellis Rubinstein is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the New York Academy of Sciences, where he has created a series of unprecedented initiatives that are powered by an extraordinary network of the world’s leading experts and academic and industry institutions.

Julia Borowicz

Apr 06, 2017

Julia Borowicz is an urbanist with experience in community planning and non profit social justice work. She has recently graduated from the MA Theories of Urban Practice program at Parsons, The New School for Design. She is also partner and co-founder of in•site collaborative, an emerging multidisciplinary design consultancy that tackles issues around unequal urban…

Clinton Burchat

Apr 06, 2017

Clinton Burchat is the founder of BLKTATU, a drone delivery system that allows drones to deliver to high rise and apartment buildings. Clinton has been a member of the Royal Australian Air Force for the last 16 years and has been interested in drones, drone deliveries and drone logistics since 2011.

Jean-Marc Janaillac

Apr 06, 2017

Jean-Marc Janaillac holds a BA in law and is a graduate of the HEC business school and ENA. In 2000, he was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Maeva vacation property company. In 2002, he became Chairman of the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau. Since November 2004, Jean-Marc Janaillac has served as Managing…

Jenny Lindqvist

Apr 06, 2017

Jenny Lindqvist is head of Intelligent Transport Systems at Ericsson. She is responsible for Ericsson’s global ITS business, including R&D, partnerships, M&A, sales and delivery. Jenny joined Ericsson in 2010 from the management consulting industry, with a broad background from industries including Transportation, Telecom, Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals and Oil & Gas.

Sheila Watson

Apr 06, 2017

Sheila Watson is Director of Environment and Research at the FIA Foundation, a UK-based Charity which is committed to promoting safe sustainable mobility across the world. She is also Executive Secretary to the Global Fuel Economy Initiative, which seeks to support the development of fuel economy policies across the world.

Gabriel Plassat

Apr 06, 2017

A thinker and innovator in the field of mobility and new technologies, Gabriel Plassat created La Fabrique des Mobilités in order to foster a new culture of innovation through an ecosystem based on trust, confidence and commons. Gabriel is an expert at ADEME and the European Commission, supporting many innovative projects. He also writes for…