Avr 17, 2017
Mary Miss has reshaped the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, landscape design, and installation art by articulating a vision of the public sphere where it is possible for an artist to address the issues of our time. She has developed the “City as Living Lab”, a framework for making issues of sustainability tangible through collaboration and…
Avr 17, 2017
Arwen Colell studied comparative environmental and energy politics in Germany, Japan and the U.S. She worked on strategies for sustainable urban development for the Federal Ministry of the Environment and the integration of renewable energies and electric vehicles for a Berlin based start-up. Her PhD dissertation at the Environmental Policy Research Center Berlin focuses on…
Avr 17, 2017
Luise Neumann-Cosel is co-founder and CEO of BürgerEnergie Berlin eG. The citizen’s cooperative aims to buy the local electricity grid. Luise holds a M.Sc. in Geoecology from the University of Potsdam, has worked as a research associate for the Berlin parliament as well as for several NGOs and is studying for a PhD on growth…
Avr 17, 2017
Jacob Omorodion is the Lead Copywriter for NewCities at the 2016 NewCities Summit. Holding a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, Economics and German from McGill University, Jacob is an incoming Master of Science candidate in Global Governance and Diplomacy at the University of Oxford. Jacob has a strong interest in urbanization in the…
Avr 17, 2017
Julie Monaco is the Global Head of Citi’s Public Sector Group in the Corporate and Investment Banking division of Citi’s Institutional Clients Group. Julie was named, in 2015, to the American Banker’s list of “25 Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance” for the sixth year.
Avr 17, 2017
Melissa Alexander is an architect and urban designer at NBBJ, one of the world’s largest architecture and planning firms. Dedicated to educating the next generation of urban planners, she has served as a teaching fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, as lead faculty at the Boston Architectural College, and as a fellow at…
Avr 10, 2017
Cristian worked Ashoka France and the Chilean Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications. He also contributed to the OECD’s work on Compact Cities and ran consulting missions for SciencesPo university’s Junior Consulting. He studied urban strategy and social sciences at SciencesPo Paris, where he wrote a thesis on the relationship between inequality and the innovative potential…
Avr 10, 2017
Katie Vann studied Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, where she specialized in Social Anthropology for two years. Here she gained an interest in urban planning and grassroots solutions to urban problems. For her undergraduate dissertation, Katie conducted fieldwork in Wellington, New Zealand where she interviewed tattooists who specialize in Polynesian and Maori…
Avr 10, 2017
Sua Son grew up in Japan and South Korea and moved to the UK and Sweden to complete an undergraduate degree in English literature. Prior to working at the New Cities Foundation in Paris, she completed a stint at the Royal Embassy of Denmark in Seoul, as a public diplomacy assistant. Sua has a keen…
Avr 10, 2017
Keziah works within the Communications team, assisting with digital strategy and community management. She is an English and US citizen who studied International Relations in the United States and at Sciences Po. Before joining NewCities she worked in public relations for the Michigan Senate, as a reporter and Dj for impact radio and as media…
Avr 10, 2017
Assaf Biderman is a technology inventor, author, and entrepreneur. He teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he is the Associate Director of the SENSEable City Lab. Assaf holds multiple patents and has co-authored over 40 publications and book chapters.
Avr 07, 2017
Stephen Jennings is the Founder & CEO of Rendeavour, Africa’s largest urban developer, with over 12,000 hectares (30,000 acres) of satellite city developments near high-growth cities in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo.