People

Our network of contributors

Clifford Winston

Mar 29, 2017

Clifford Winston is an applied microeconomist who specializes in the analysis of industrial organization, regulation, and transportation. Winston has also been co-editor of the annual microeconomics edition of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.

Andy Merritt

Mar 29, 2017

Andy Merritt is a co founder and director at Makerversity and more specifically helps head the spacial design and logistics of the space. Makerversity started as a work and education space for start-up making businesses, and applied learning opportunities. At our Somerset House home in central London we provide access to a range of fabrication…

Dr. Anthony M. Townsend

Mar 29, 2017

Dr. Anthony Townsend is an urban planner and forecaster whose writing, public speaking, activism and consulting focus on urbanization, ubiquitous computing and technology-led innovation and economic development.

Matthew Christensen

Mar 29, 2017

Matthew Christensen is the former Managing Editor of Bikeshare.com and specializes in bicycle and bikesharing research and planning. He joined the Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC), University of California, Berkeley in 2014.

Susan A. Shaheen

Mar 29, 2017

Susan Shaheen is an adjunct professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and an associate research engineer at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Bruno Marzloff

Mar 29, 2017

Bruno Marzloff, sociologist and futurist, has coordinated Groupe Chronos for the last 15 years – a laboratory of innovative mobilities bringing together transportation stakeholders, thought leaders, the media, and a wide variety of urban actors.

Timothy Gribaudi

Mar 29, 2017

Timothy grew up in Paris, and after obtaining his BA in History and Politics at the University of York in England, he spent two years working in Spain and London. He then studied for a research degree at the University of Oxford. Having graduated with an M.Phil in 2013, he joined PublicisLive. A history enthusiast,…

Virginia Roe

Mar 28, 2017

Joining the team in 2016, Virginia is the Development and Partnership Manager for NewCities. Virginia is responsible for building relationships across sectors and helping ensure that NewCities is providing attractive opportunities for current and new members and partners. With more than ten years of development experience in the not-for-profit sector, Virginia hopes to help NewCities…

Manon Guyot

Mar 28, 2017

Manon has graduated from McGill University in February 2015 after completing a Bachelor of Arts in Political Sciences and International Development. Her interest in urban development and her experience in event management led her to join NewCities in September 2015. She is passionate about horseback riding and has participated in the French Show Jumping Championship…

Steven Hearn

Mar 28, 2017

Steven Hearn began his career in cultural strategy and launched le Troisième Pôle in 2000, following studies in economics, politics and art history. Steven has also been in charge of the public programing of the Gaîté Lyrique (a centre for cultures of the digital age) since 2008. In 2010, he brought together all his initiatives…

Odile Decq

Mar 28, 2017

Odile Decq set up her own office just after graduating from La Villette in 1978 and from Sciences Politiques Paris in Urban Planning in 1979. International renown came quickly in 1990 with the Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in Rennes. She was awarded with a Golden Lion in Venice in 1996. After the MACRO in Rome,…

Zia Yusuf

Mar 24, 2017

Zia Yusuf is the President & CEO of Streetline Inc., the leading global provider of sensor-enabled smart city solutions. He is also an Associate Consulting Professor at Stanford University and is an actively involved board member of non-profit institutions focused on education in South Asia and social entrepreneurship in East Africa.