Avr 04, 2017
Hiroo Ichikawa is Dean at the Professional Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan. He is also Executive Director of The Mori Memorial Foundation and President at the Meiji University Research Center for Crisis and Contingency Management. He is an expert in urban policy, urban and regional planning and crisis management.
Avr 04, 2017
Mouna is co-founder of Montréal-based studio Daily tous les jours. For the past four years, Daily tous les jours‘ focus has been on creating collective experiences that inspire people to become active participants in the world around them. Their work takes on different shapes: from urban interventions and planning, to events, to software applications or…
Avr 04, 2017
Meenu is a feminist and currently a social entrepreneur working on the idea of ‘Women on Wheels’. She has worked – nationally and internationally over the last twenty six years on a range of issues of women’s rights, that cover – women and reproductive rights, women and land rights, women in governance, violence against women,…
Avr 04, 2017
Elected as Deputy to Mayor Hidalgo of Paris in 2014, Jean-Louis Missika is in charge of town planning, architecture, the Greater Paris projects, economic development and attractiveness. From 2008 – 2014, he served as Deputy to Mayor Bertrand Delanoë, focusing on innovation, research and universities.
Avr 04, 2017
Caitlin D. Cottrill is a Lecturer in Digital Economy in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Aberdeen, and a member of the University’s Centre for Transport Research (CTR). Her work lies at the intersection of transport and technology, with particular focus on location privacy and the use of technology and social…
Avr 04, 2017
Parag Khanna is a leading global strategy advisor, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic advisory firm. Parag’s newest book is MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us (2021), which was preceded by The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century…
Avr 03, 2017
Heidi is a recent graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design with concurrent degree in Urban Design and Urban Planning. Her interests lie in international development and planning, and she has worked for urban planning consultant companies working on master planning for cities in China and Mexico and participated in the Incheon Airport Competition.
Avr 03, 2017
Alix is a graduate in Urban Policy from the London School of Economics and SciencesPo Paris, and a previous researcher for NewCities. She recently submitted her Master’s thesis on the urbanization of the tech industry. As part of her research, she met many entrepreneurs in American cities including San Francisco, Nashville, Kansas City, Seattle and…
Avr 03, 2017
Tiffany Obser recently completed her Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her professional interests lie in research and architecture at the urban scale. She has contributed to design projects in Colombia, the USA, Denmark, Norway, Belgium and Saudi Arabia, where she visited KAEC in 2012.
Avr 03, 2017
Isabel Dedring is London’s Deputy Mayor for Transport. In this capacity she is responsible for setting policy and ensuring programme delivery across the Mayor’s transport portfolio. Key projects in this role have included the Tube Reliability Programme, targeting a 30% reduction in delays, developing the Mayor’s recent Cycling Vision, and leading the development of London’s…
Avr 03, 2017
Katherine McKinlay is a Principal Transport Policy Officer at the Greater London Authority where she develops, delivers and monitors elements of the Mayor’s Transport Strategy and key Mayoral initiatives. She is responsible for road safety policy, the Roads Task Force and Major Road schemes within the GLA, working with the Deputy Mayor for Transport to…
Avr 03, 2017
Alex Krieger is a principal at NBBJ, a global architecture and planning firm, and a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he has taught since 1977 and served as chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design from 1997-2004.