Director of the IGLUS program
Prof. Matthias Finger is a Professor of Management of Network Industries at EPFL since 2002. As of 2010 he also directs the Transport Area of the Florence School of Regulation at the European University Institute. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Geneva and has been, before joining EPFL, an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University (New York), an Associate Professor at Columbia University (New York), a Professor of Management of Public Enterprises at the Swiss Federal Institute of Public Administration. He is also a member of the Swiss railways as well as the Swiss electricity regulatory authorities. His main research interest is on the liberalization, re-regulation, and governance of infrastructures in the transport, energy, and communications sectors. He is the editor in chief of the Journal Competition and Regulation in Network Industries.
Manager of the IGLUS Program
Jerry Kolo is a Professor of Urban Planning, and currently Coordinator of the Master of Urban Planning program at the American University of Sharjah (AUS), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Jerry joined AUS in 2006/2007 from Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, where he was a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, and Founder and Director of the Center for Urban Redevelopment and Empowerment (CURE). His areas of teaching and research specializations are political ecology; public policy planning; and sustainable community planning. Jerry has extensive consulting and public service experience with municipal and non-profit agencies. He has won several awards, including the State of Florida Governor’s award for distinguished public service in 1994, and the African American Achiever’s award for education in South Florida in 1999.
Patrick Bonnel is head of the Transport Department at ENTPE (Engineer school on territory sustainable development). He has a PhD in transport economics and is supervisor of several PhD thesis in transport economics.
His research interests mainly concern transport and LUTI modelling and survey methodology. He has written a book on Transport modelling and is co-editor of several books. He is co-chair of the International Steering Committee for Transport Survey Conference. He is responsible of a SIG on survey methodology for World Conference for Transport Research. He is member of several editorial boards of international transport journal. He leads several research contract at national and international level.
He is course leader of the transport program at ENTPE and of the Master of science in Urban and regional passenger transport (TURP). He develops cooperation programs with several international partners.
Karsten Zimmermann is a Professor at the Faculty of Spatial Planning at Technical University of Dortmund where he holds the chair for European Planning Cultures. He is educated as a political scientist and has dedicated most of his academic work to the study of cities and regions.
From 2005 to 2012 he was part of the interdisciplinary research centre Intrinsic Logic of Cites (Eigenlogik der Städte) at Technical University of Darmstadt. He has been studying the evolvement of metropolitan governance arrangements over years in different countries.
Currently, he is involved in a larger research project about knowledge generation in local climate politics. Further research topics include planning theory and planning practices in Europe and transformation of post-industrial regions. He is the president of the European Urban Research Association (EURA) and coordinates the international Master-Programme Transformaton of Post-Industrial Regions (ToPIR) at the Dortmund School of Planning.
Prof. Janice Beecher has served as Director of the Institute of Public Utilities at Michigan State University since 2002. She is a frequent author, lecturer, and participant in professional forums and Editor of Utilities Policy. Her areas of interest include regulatory governance, institutions, theory, adaptation, and ethics; commission organization and demographics; and pricing and incentives. She previously held positions at the Ohio State and Indiana Universities and the Illinois Commerce Commission. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and faculty appointments in MSU’s College of Social Science, where she has taught graduate courses in public policy and regulation.
Anand Iyer has a Masters in Architecture & Critical Theory, University of Nottingham, U.K. and G.D. Architecture, School of Architecture, CEPT (now University), Ahmedabad, India. Over the last 20 years, he has worked with Government agencies, on Policy; and the Private Sector, on Strategy & Planning in Infrastructure; in addition to professional work with design firms.
Anand has also been Academic Coordinator and Professor, at different Universities in India, engaging with History, Theory, Criticism in Design (from interior, architecture to urban levels) & Research based subjects.
Anand is presently Chief Project Manager, at the National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi (an autonomous policy think-tank of the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, Govt. of India), handling Program Management and aspects of Organization growth & structuring.
His research interests lie in the Social, Political & Ideological perspectives in Sustainable Urban Development; which he investigates through policy, legislation and implementation aspects.
Jagan Shah is Director of the National Institute of Urban Affairs (www.niua.org), which supports policy, research, capacity building and monitoring for the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs of the Government of India. Shah has provided thought-leadership and guidance for India’s Smart Cities Mission as well as other urban programs. He also provides overall guidance to NIUA’s diverse portfolio of projects, including decentralized water, sanitation & waste management, affordable housing, heritage-led economic development, transit-oriented development, municipal finance, data analytics and e-governance, and research on migration, informality, social protection and resilience.
Shah is a professional architect and historian & theorist trained at the School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi, the University of Cincinnati and Columbia University. He has been a teacher and writer and has provided consultancy to a number of corporate and development sector clients. He served as the founder CEO of Urban Space Consultants from 2007 to 2010, Director of the Sushant School of Architecture from 2011 to 2012 and Independent Director of Delhi Integrated Multi-modal Transit System from 2015 to 2018. He is a Trustee on the board of Clean Air Asia, an international NGO based in Manila.
Architect with a master in architectural restoration and a PhD in City, territory and Sustainability
Laurence Bertoux earn a degree of architecture from the Ecole d’Architecture Paris Villemin (Paris, France), with a one year exchange program in the University of Houston (Texas, USA), a Master Degree in Architectural Restoration from the International University SEK (Santiago of Chile) and a PHD degree in “City, Territory and Sustainability” from the University of Guadalajara.
She moved in Mexico City in 1997, where she joined TEN Arquitectos and worked on projects like El Taller Jaguar and participated in publications of TEN Arquitectos projects in several publishing houses in the world. From 1998 to 2002 she participated as Art Director in several movies and TV spots, and developed commercial project in La Condesa and the historical district of Mexico City (restaurant, bars and discotheques).
In 2003 she moved to Santiago of Chile, co-founded Bertomo Arquitectos, and worked on residencial and commercial project (houses and stores). At the same time she developed a consulting activity in adobe construction and restoration for the Interamerican Development Bank and the Chilean Ministry of Construction.
Since 2009 she lives in Guadalajara where she has been working as Technical Secretary in the Commission of Urban Planning of Guadalajara during five years. In that time, she organized the “Cities faces Climate Change” events with the City of Guadalajara, and, in coordination with the Ibero-American Centre for Urban Strategic Development (CIDEU) a one week workshop about Strategic Urban Planning. She was part of the Jalisco Climate Change Special Plan as Quality and Final Publishing Coordinator.
In 2014 she joined TEC de Monterrey as investigator professor, then assumed the academic direction of the Architectural School in Guadalajara. She created the Innovative, Design and City Laboratory, where she led several investigation and consulting project (Smart Mobility for Continental, Integrated Urban Poligons Strategy for Guadalajara, Metropolitan Resiliency Profile …). Since march 2017 she is the Academic Associate Dean of the National School of Architecture, Art and Design.
Educational Backgrounds
1988~1992 Ph.D. in Public Policy, GSAS at Harvard University, U.S.A.
1986~1988 MPP, KSG at Harvard University, U.S.A.
1973~1977 B.A. in Economics, Seoul National University, Korea.
Public Sector Involvements
2016~ Member, International Advisory Council, Global Peace Foundation
2015~2017 Chairman, Advisory Committee of National Assembly Budget Office, ROK
2011~2013 Minister of Strategy and Finance, ROK
2010~2011 Minister of Employment and Labor, ROK
2008~2010 Senior Secretary to the President for National Vision, Agenda, & Strategy, ROK
2008 Senior Secretary to the President for Political Affairs, ROK
2007~2008 TFT Leader for Government Restructuring & Regulatory Reform, PresidentialTransition Committee, ROK
2006~2008 Chief of Staff to the President of Grand National Party
2005~2006 Chairman, External Relations Committee, Grand National Party
2005 Chairman, Economic Policy Coordination Committee, Grand National Party
2004~2005 Vice President of Youido Institute, Grand National Party
2004~2008 Member of the 17th National Assembly, ROK
1994~1996 Assistant Chief Secretary to the President for Policy Planning, ROK
1992~1994 Assistant Director, Ministry of Finance, ROK
1983~1992 Assistant Director, Board of Audit and Inspection, ROK
1980~1983 Assistant Director, Secretariat of National Security Council, ROK
1979 Passed the 23rd Higher Civil Service Examination
1977~1978 Compulsory Military Service, Korean Army
Academic Career
1996~ Professor, Graduate School of Governance, Sungkyunkwan University
2015~2016 Dean, Graduate School of Governance, Sungkyunkwan University
2014~2016 President, Social Sciences Research Institute, Sungkyunkwan University
2003~2004 Provost for Planning, Budgeting & Coordination, Sungkyunkwan University
2002~2003 Visiting Professor, Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies,University of California at San Diego, USA
2000~2002 Provost for Admissions, Sungkyunkwan University
Academic Societies
2016~2017 Chairman, Research Advisory Committee, Korea Institute of Public Administration
2015~2017 Member, Board of Directors, Youido Institute
2015 Chairman, Committee for Public Enterprises, Korean Association of Policy Studies
2014~2017 Member, Steering Committee on Public Finance Research Network, KoreaInstitute of Public Finance
2002 Cochair, National Council on Brain Korea 21 Research Projects
2001~2004 Editorial Board, Korean Association of Policy Analysis and Evaluation
2000 Research Director, Korean Association for Public Administration
1999~2002 Head, Brain Korea 21 Project Team, Korea Research Foundation
1999~2001 Auditor, Korean Council of Social Sciences
1999 Research Director, Korean Association of Policy Studies
1998~2001 Editorial Board, Korean Association of Public Economics
1998~2004 Director, Korea Association for Corruption Studies
1998 Secretary General, Korean Association for Public Administration
1997 Secretary General, Korean Association of Public Economics
NGOs & Private Think Tanks
2014~ President, Hansun Foundation for Peace & Prosperity of the Korean Peninsula
2004 Chairman, Policy Coordination Committee, Citizen's Coalition for Economic Justice
1999~2003 President, Public Policy Research Institute
Private Sector
2016~ Non-executive Member, Board of Directors, Samsung Electronics Co.
2016~ Non-executive Member, Board of Directors, Lotte Shopping Co.
Major Taxation, Public Audit, Public Financial Management, Mechanism Design
Research Interests
National Competitiveness & Contestable Regulation
Public Sector Reform & Corruption Control
Social Traps & Commitment Devices
Human Resource Development & Workfare
Publications
Numerous articles & book chapters including:
A Diagnosis of the Spoon Class Theory and Policy Proposals (2018);
“Static Models of Interaction between Tax Evasion and Corruption” (2018);
Long-standing but New Visions: Setting Korea Right (2017);
“The Korean Economy Beyond Condensed Industrialization” (2017);
Government Reforms for Reinventing Korea (2017);
“Forging the Framework for the Government Administration during thePresidential Transitions” (2016);
Controversies over Korea’s National Vision (2010);
“Public Sector Performance Measurement Using Data Envelopment Analysis" (2006);
Checks and Balances of National Budgeting (2004);
Building Good Governance (2002);
Public Sector Auditing Standards (2000);
“Models of Corruption by Officials of an Arm’s Lengthy Agency” (1999);
“Economic Implications of Corruption and Anti-corruption Policies” (1997);
“An Optimal Tax Audit Mechanism” (1992)
Diego Zavala Scherer is professor in Media Studies with Tecnológico de Monterrey, Guadalajara Campus. He holds a PhD in Social Communication from Universidad Pompeu Fabra at Barcelona, Spain. The themes of his publications are documentary theory, Mexican documentary film, media participatory production, and interactive documentaries.
Member of the National Researchers System of Mexico. He is also a member of the Research Group Museum I+D+C at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; and of the Cátedra Latinoamericana de Narrativas Transmedia at Universidad de Rosario, Argentina. He has been a visitng professor at UC Berkeley, University of San Diego, Drake University, and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Professor Robin Hambleton BA MA PhD MRTPI FRSA
Robin Hambleton is Emeritus Professor of City Leadership at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol and Director of Urban Answers. He worked in local government in the England for ten years before becoming an academic. He has been an Adviser to UK local government ministers, to Select Committees of the UK House of Parliament, and has worked on place-based leadership with cities in many different countries.
He has held professorial positions in City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University, in City Management at UWE, and in Urban Planning and Policy, and Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was the founding President of the European Research Association (EURA) and was the Dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2002-07).
He has published eleven books and over 400 articles. His latest book is Leading the Inclusive City. Place-based innovation for a bounded planet. (Policy Press 2015).
Architect with a bachelor from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Queretaro.In 2013 she obtained the diploma of "European Postgraduate Masters in Urbanism" for studying her Master's studies at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the IUAV University of Venice and the Catholic University of Leuven. In 2014 she graduated Suma Cum Laude from the Master in Science in Urbanism and Strategic Planning by the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.
She has collaborated with various offices such as Bureau Bas Smets and Metapolis in Belgium, Rizzi Architettura in Italy, Studio-EST and DEL-Casa in Romania, and Nurblat in Querétaro. Throughout her career she has had the opportunity to develop projects of parks, squares and design of public spaces, as well as being a consultant for projects with firms such as Foster and Partners and Vk Engineering. In 2014, together with Bogdan Ilie, she founds Anthroposcene, an interdisciplinary and international studio that focuses on urban regeneration and the creation of high quality public spaces. In 2015, in collaboration with Bogdan Ilie, she wins the first prize of the No. 17 of Arquine competition "Pulmón Metropolitano de Oriente" with a proposal for the alternative use of the future former International airport of Mexico City. During 2016, she worked as a consultant for UN-Habitat Mexico for the Program of Territorial Planning and Development Urban of the Huasteca Hidalguense. From the autumn of 2015 to the summer of 2018, she was a consultant for the urban planning office Urbanistica, where she developed research mobility, landscape and public space projects such as The Walk-up call: Mexico City; A Walk through Jalpan de Serra, The transformation of public space and mobility in the Redoma de Petare Venezuela, Tactical urbanism project for the low emission corridor in Morelos Avenue in Tlalnepantla and others.
Co-founder and Director Ithaca Environmental
Dr. Arnoldo Matus Kramer has developed extensive professional experience on resilience, adaptation and climate change policy through his work at Ithaca Environmental, a consulting firm providing counsel on climate change, sustainability, environmental finance and energy, which he co-founded in 2012. His responsibilities at Ithaca have included leading the area on resilience and adaptation to climate change with projects in Latin America, and particularly in Mexico at the national and sub-national levels. Arnoldo is also a lecturer and tutor at the Sustainability Science Postgraduate Program and at the Faculty of Architecture at UNAM.
In 2018, Arnoldo served as the first Chief Resilience Officer of the largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere, Arnoldo leaded from 2014 to 2018 the development and implementation of the resilience strategy for Mexico City. Given the multi-peril city he served, the strategy takes into account potential shocks as diverse as drought, earthquake, and disruptions to the water-supply chains.
As part of his role as a climate change consultant for the OECD Environmental Directive in 2009, Arnoldo contributed to several OECD publications, including the policy guidance on “Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation.”
Arnoldo holds a PhD in geography and environment from the University of Oxford. He completed his undergraduate studies in political science at McGill University and has two master’s degrees, one in environment and resource management from the Brandenburg University of Technology in Germany and the other in renewable energy from Reading University in the UK.
VP, Transilien SNCF
Since Feb 2014 | Vice President, Transilien SNCF , in charge of developments (new CBTC derived system for mass transit, new simulation tools for operation and infrastructure designs, passengers counting technologies, digital and AI devlopments, major development mobility projects …..) |
2010 to 2013 | Strategy, Innovation and regulation Director, SNCF |
2004 to 2010 | TGV Rhin Rhone project Director |
2001 to 2004 | Ermewa group, Wagon Branch Chief Executive officer |
1998 to 2001 | SNCF Regional Director, Paris South East Region |
1994 to 1998 | SNCF Regional infrastructure director, Paris rive Gauche |
Recent publishing : with EPFL Pf Finger « Rail Economics Policy and Regulation in Europe » ,Elgar, London, september 2015 with François Regniault « Que faire de la SNCF ? », Tallandier octobre 2016 « Réseaux ferroviaires et territoires, la géographie humaine du chemin de fer, un retour aux sources », with Nacima Baron, professeur à Paris Est et au LVMT, Presses des Ponts et chaussées, Paris, november 2017 |
Rodrigo studied Architecture & Urbanism, Civil Engineering and holds an MBA. A tried and tested leader committed to results, innovative and collaborative executive leader with 17+ years of strategic and creative business development across markets in South Asia, Africa, Middle East, and Latin America, with proven adaptability. He is known for his ability to foster cross-functional collaborations. Whether solving how to bring an existing brand to an emerging market, or building a new organization to support extreme growth cycles, Rodrigo brings relentless energy and creativity to developing smart city solutions.
Optima Project Management - President
BS Civil Engineering, University of California, Irvine; MS Civil Engineering, California State University, Los Angeles. Both with concentration on water and wastewater.
I am an international development consultant and a licensed civil engineer in the United States. I have 30 years of experience in engineering and management of civil infrastructures. I have held leadership roles in various local and regional government agencies and private international firms in the US, Canada and Asia. I am the president of a private consulting firm based in Seattle, Washington that specializes in engineering and management of infrastructure projects. Before starting my own consulting practice I was the head of engineering department for Redwood City, California. Previously I managed the wastewater and stormwater programs and transportation program for the cities of Los Angeles and Seattle, respectively. I have managed 5 large international development projects as Team Leader for World Bank in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Georgia and Indonesia.
My interest includes new water, urbanism and Moorish civilization. I am working to make a documentary film on the water infrastructures built in the 10th century in Andalusia, Spain. I love to hike and travel.
CEO Kisio
Nino holds a BSs degree with honors in Computer Engineering from Georgian Technical University and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
During her career, she has been working in field of Information Technologies for various commercial organizations, while at the same time being actively involved in urban activism in her hometown, Tbilisi, volunteering for several NGOs and authoring projects focused on civil-engagement and urban mobility.
Recently, Nino got interested in Smart Cities concept and decided to research possibilities of using information technology for addressing urban infrastructure challenges, transportation in particular.
This decision brought her to IGLUS Executive Master program, where she plans to gain solid understanding of how urban systems work and explore real-life application of technological solutions for sustainable development of the cities.
He has long been interested in the place of energy in the city as a vector of well-being of the inhabitants through innovation and new models. That’s why he has been working in gas distribution industry for 6 years and develop an expertise on how to manage gas infrastructures in France through technical, economic, environmental and political points of view. Now he works as business analyst where he is in relation with institutions, big companies and start-ups to promote the usage of gas in mobility. He also works on the new model of PPP with the French government.
It's been over a year since he delves more particularly into the concept of Smart City, which pushed him to go to Singapore at the beginning of the year and meet local actors. As a result, he wrote a report on the Smart cities in Asia and the business potential of three countries: China, India and Singapore. Then, he started IGLUS program to push further his knowledge in large urban system management.
Amelia Prieto graduated in Economics and Business Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid in 1995.
She developed her first 5 years of professional career at Accenture as IT consultant in the Telco industry.
In 2010 she joined one of the biggest telecommunication operators, Telefónica, in which she has held various management positions in the UK, Germany and Spain, in the area of Business Strategy and Digital Transformation.
In 2017 Amelia decided to leave the corporate world, to learn about the tech startup world and innovation in the urban landscape.
After some time off travelling around the world, she became the Managing Director of Datacity Barcelona program of NUMA, a collaborative smart city project between the Barcelona City Council, private companies, and the ecosystem of innovation to solve urban challenges with technology.
In 2019 she moved back to Madrid to lead MIOTI, an education startup on of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things. Since she joined the IGLUS Executive Master in February 2020, she plans to devote her full energy in acquiring the expertise and know-how in urban governance and innovation project.
Annet Twinokwesiga is a Corporate Architect from Makerere University, Uganda with over 4 years working experience in the built environment. She intermittently works with organizations specific to improving the planning of cities and towns in Uganda. Annet champions appropriate buildings, safe communities and a sustainable environment through architecture. Her greatest lesson is that Architecture is as much spatial and formal as it is political, ideological, economical and theoretical thus having the potential to influence thinking and policy.
Astrid holds an MA (2010) in International Economics and International Development from Johns Hopkins University, which she carried out in Bologna, Italy and Washington D.C., USA. Prior to this she was awarded a BSc with honours (2008) in Economics, Politics and International Studies with study abroad from the University of Warwick. For her year abroad, she studied economics for a year at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain (2006/07). She is currently pursuing her Executive Masters Degree in the Innovative Governance of Large Urban Systems at the EPFL.
Astrid is an Austrian/Ugandan urban economist based in Kampala, Uganda, who has worked in government and non-governmental organizations across various countries. She is currently the Senior Country Economist for Cities, working with the policy research institution, International Growth Centre (IGC). The IGC, led by the London School of Economics and University of Oxford, is based in 15 countries across Africa and Asia and in this role, she manages and carries out policy-based research, based on demand from the government, in the urban sector. Prior to joining the IGC, she worked for Innovations for Poverty Action as the Interim Deputy Country Director for Uganda as well as a Program Manager for Evidence Action, which included work in Uganda, Rwanda and Malawi. Astrid has also worked as an analyst on a large-scale agriculture project in South Sudan and as an Economist in the Ministry of East African Community in Kenya focusing on the Common Market and Monetary Union negotiations. In 2016, she was nominated by the University of Cape Town as one of Africa’s Young Leaders.
Her areas of research interest are within the broad frame of urban economics, specifically looking at municipal financing, urban mobility and land reform, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has published a number of papers, blog posts and articles in international media on a variety of subjects. Astrid is particularly interest at the nexus of policy and research. Outside the urban sector, Astrid has interests in public financial management overall and has worked on a number of randomized control trial experiments in different sectors.
Advisor to the Mayor of Athens & Entrepreneur
Undergraduate engineering degree in Urban Planning and Regional Development by the University of Thessaly (Greece) with graduate education at Columbia University (USA) on Urban Planning and Real Estate Development.
Consulting support to the Mayor on urban planning and redevelopment. Responsible for coordination and management of urban redevelopment projects and planning strategies to revitalize the city center and enhance quality of life. Project manager for the Strategic Urban Action Plan for the regeneration of Athens downtown area until 2020.
Co-founded strartup company that offers a participation platform for online communities. The company has already presence in 2 countries (GR, DE) with paying customers.
Interested to bring innovation and efficiency in public governance and enhance the role of local governments in the metropolitan sphere.
Metropolitan Adviser / Rio de Janeiro City Hall
Geographer from Rio de Janeiro Federal University – Brazil (2004) where also has a Masters Degree in Regional Planning (2008). Has taken such courses as Big Cities Management at the National Administration School – ENA/Paris (2014), Public Management in Columbia University -USA (2015) and Urban Public Policies at Castilla-La Mancha University – Spain (2015). Currently attending the Urban Governance Executive Master at Lausanne Federal School – EPFL (2018), where have been developing a Master Thesis about Metropolitan Governance.
Has been working at Rio de Janeiro City Hall since 2010. First as a geographer at the Neighborhood Department of the Urban Secretary until 2012, then worked as an Urban Planning Adviser at the Urban Secretary until 2016. Currently is a Metropolitan Adviser of the City Hall, has held this position since January 2017. In addition to those activities has also worked as a member of the Urban Secretary at the Environmental City Council and at the Green and Environmental Heritage Technical Chamber since 2013. In 2012, was also the member of the Urban Secretary at the Green Infrastructures Corridors of the city. Before working at the City Hall, developed consultancies of major strategic ventures for the National and State levels. Between 2009 and 2010, wrote the Environmental Reports for the licensing of two National Railways and between 2008 and 2009, the Environmental Reports for the licensing of a Petrobras Refinery and a Pipeline. Before that infrastructure experiences, worked with Environmental Protected Areas Management. In 2008, joined the project that created a Rio de Janeiro State Park (Cunhambebe), in 2007 was the President Adviser of the State Park Institute and between 2005 and 2006 was an Adviser of the Participative Board of Petropolis Federal Protected Area.
Metropolitan Governance, Urban Planning, Environmental Planning,
Mobility and Transportation Plans, Master Plans, Regional Planning, Territorial Planning, Strategic Planning, Environmental Protected Areas Management,
Geographic Information Systems (GIS),
Leadership Programs, Citizen Participation Process, NGOs,
French – Fluent (Advanced listening, speaking, reading, and writing)
English – Fluent (Advanced listening, speaking, reading, and writing)
Spanish – Fluent (Advanced listening, speaking, reading, and writing)
Portuguese – Native Language
Self-employed (own company) / Advisor for the local city planning office
After graduation, I was in the First-Year College program from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, United State.
Studied architecture at Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia with courses on urban planning, city studies and architectural design.
Design masters from Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan, Italy.
Shortly after graduating, I started working for the architecture studio of Colombian architect Giancarlo Mazzanti, where I could see up close, his interesting approach towards design in which the success of a project should be measured by the social impact it has. After almost a year in this studio, I decided I wanted to explore other areas of my career on my own, and started a design-build venture in which I was able to work on diverse architectural projects from the initial phases all the way to the construction. During my time in Milan, I was able to collaborate with Officina Architteti, a design studio that focuses on large scale projects all over the world, which gave me a new perspective on the way architecture is perceived by the end user. In Italy, I was also able to work for LVMH group as Project Manager. This experience was really interesting, because regardless of the projects being developed, my role as a project manager, gave me a glimpse at the reality of what plans and design represent. I was responsible for logistics, permits, socialization, construction, budget and all other areas of an architectural project. Finally, after returning to my hometown, I started my own firms that focuses on City Consulting, where I have been fortunate enough to participate and carry out important projects for the city planning office.
I became an architect because I believe our craft is the testimony of our collective minds and it is therefore our responsibility to generate a positive impact on our society. As we are faced with global threats such as poverty and global warming, I believe we can make a change. I am particularly interested in projects that work towards making cities a better and more livable place for every member of society. I’m strongly drawn towards doable projects that stay on the practical side and center on the execution phases. I consider land use and zoning laws to be tools that need to be studied and implemented correctly to create better urban spaces. I also believe in the power of ICT’s to make a greater impact. Finally, I am interested in the governance structures that can secure the success of important urban projects.
Urban Planning Institute
Baasankhorol holds a Bachelor degree in Urban Planning and Architecture from Mongolian University of Science and Technology. During her undergraduate studies, she participated in the Nomad City program by Goethe Institute from 2012-2014 in Dresden Germany and Ulaanbaatar Mongolia and did a research on the transition of Ulaanbaatar’s “Ger” Settlements area.
She works as an urban planner in “Urban Planning Institute” Co.ltd and coordinator at “Mongolian Chamber of Urban Development” since 2013. As an urban planner, her main responsibilities are managing research, making analysis for local cities’ planning projects identifying the main problems to be concerned and developing plans for the cities determining the best way to use cities’ land and resource. As a coordinator at MCUD,she invites external and domestic consultants to organize seminars and trainings in urban development sector while providing professional consulting services to the local authorities and supporting to improve their human resources by training and capacity building.
Her main areas of interests are sustainable urban development, affordable housing, community participation in urban development, urban governance and infrastructure management.
Architect
I took a bachelor degree in Science of Architecture at “Politecnico di Milano”. Afterward, I took a Double Master Degree in Architecture and Society with the specialization in Town and Urban planning at “Politecnico di Milano” and “Politecnico di Torino” thanks to a scholarship for excellence held by “Alta Scuola Politecnica”, discussing two thesis: “The bottom up approach to the urban planning” (that I did alone) and the other one “NHEC, NEA Human Exploration Concept. A friendly manned interface” (multidisciplinary project, with other colleague from different faculties). I studied one year abroad in Israel at Tel Aviv University thanks to “Erasmus Mundus program” and I did a lot of different workshops and intensive courses around Italy and Europe (such as the course of “Urban as a bottom up approach” at TU Delft University, or emergency architecture for a Hospital in Africa).
Since 2014 I’m a design consultant for our office of technical designing consultancy for industrial filed (private sector) following and supporting our clients from the designing step to the realization of their project based on their production needs, trough bureaucracy and permissions, financial, energy safe costs, improvement of technologies and so on, collaborating with a lot of expertise in different fields. I started to to work as a “architect freelance”for different Architectural studios since 2011. In 2015 (from September to December) I also participated as university tutor with the “Smart Social Home” project on a Urban Innovation Bootcamp held by “The Loop” from San Francisco with the Stanford Method, at Ca Foscari University in Treviso following a group of students in order to develop the project and bring innovation on Treviso city collaborating with citizens, teachers, professors and firms around them. Before my university studies, I worked as a assistant to the products manager of 2 clothing companies for three years (from 2005 to 2008).
Urban transformation and Development of World possible future scenarios; use and preservation of lands and oceans; urban and town planning; Emergency architecture; sociology and anthropology of urban environment and territory; climate change mitigation and sustainability for cities.cities.
2015 – present Associate Director, Europe & Middle East; 100 Resilient Cities – The Rockefeller Foundation
Business Sector: International Philanthropy, Urban Public Policy, Private
Skills deployed: Global Policy & Program Development, Advocacy & Executive Negotiations & International management
2013 – 2015 Special Advisor to the Mayor of Athens, European Affairs & Public Administration
Business Sector: Public Policy, Government
Skills deployed: European Policy-Making, Executive Management, Social policy program development, European Fund negotiations, European policy deployment & program management.
2010 – 2012 Institutional Affairs Coordinator; OurPark Urban Development Social Enterprise
Business Sector: Civil Society, Social Business, Private Skills deployed: Advocacy, management, fund raising
2009 – 2013 Research Fellow; Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
Business Sector: European Affairs, Civil Society, Think Tanks
Skills deployed: Research, International Program development & coordination
2006 – 2012 Advocacy and Policy Coordinator (part-time); Central Union of Municipalities of Greece/ NGOs for the Constitution Campaign
Business Sector: Civil Society, Governance & Politics Skill deployed: Advocacy, management, research
2015 – 2017 Executive Global Masters, Innovative Governance of Large Urban Systems, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Specialisation: Governance, Urban Policy
Location(s): Chicago/Detroit, Seoul, Barcelona/Dortmund, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur/Malacca
2006 – 2007 Master of Science (MSc), European Public Policy, University College London (UCL)
Specialisation: European Affairs, Public Participation & Democracy Location: London
2001 – 2005 Bachelor of Arts (BA), European Social & Political Studies, University College London (UCL) & Sorbonne Paris IV
Focus Area: European Politics, Culture & French Language Location(s): London & Paris
1989 – 2001 Athens College (HAEF)
Languages: Greek (Native), English (bilingual proficiency), French (working professional proficiency), Spanish (basic knowledge)
2011 – present Co-Founder & Vice President of Balkans Beyond Borders, a regional social innovation arts and engagement organization (EU & Western Balkans)
2009 – 2013 Volunteer international affairs advisor and Institutional Affairs volunteer & Member of the Board; Amnesty International , Greece, European Expression, Greece, KEAN, Greece
2004 International Relations protocol volunteer, International Olympic Committee, Greece
Member of the European civic leadership group FutureLab Europe and Recipient of the EU Youth Charlemagne Award 2011
Onassis Foundation scholarship recipient EPFL fee waiver scholarship
UCL Distinction
Athens College Social Sciences Award
Konstantina Karydi joined 100ResilientCities – Rockefeller Foundation as Associate Director, Europe and Middle East with experience in international philanthropy, change management and European affairs. In this capacity she is directing cross-national teams across the region towards the development and implementation of urban resilience strategies while contributing to the elaboration of the global urban agenda through relevant policy fora and setting up the European office of the organization.
Prior to joining 100RC she acted as Special Advisor on European Policies and Public Administration to the Mayor of Athens, in the fields of urban development, participatory and social policies. In that capacity she had a horizontal overview of the municipal priorities through the lense of the European Urban Affairs. Amongst others, she has participated in the elaboration of the European Urban Agenda as capital city Mayoral representative in the European Commission and has set up two European wide best practices on social innovation under the EEA grants Solidarity and Social Inclusion in Greece program and the Co-creating citizens European sub-network for participatory practices and urban development. In the past she has held amongst others positions as Research Fellow and Policy Officer at the European think-tank Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and the Central Union of Municipalities of Greece working on governance, transparency and public participation.
She is Vice-President and Co-Founder of the regional organization Balkans Beyond Borders, and member of the network of excellence on European Affairs Future Lab Europe. She has completed her education at University College London (UCL) and Sorbonne Paris and most recently at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) having completed an executive Global Masters on Innovative Governance of Large Urban Systems (IGLUS).
Master in Spatial Planning (IGLUS) by Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Nov 2018.
Master in Architectural Design by Damascus University, Jan 2013.
Bachelor in Architecture Engineering by Damascus University , Jan 2008
I have 10 years of excellent experience in architecture and urban planning, Offering two master degrees, one in architecture design, the other one in urban management.
As a planner, I possess expertise in land use planning, development codes, old cities renovation, informal settlement projects and expansion areas. I have practice urban planning through all levels (detailed, master and spatial planning) and all partners (Local Authorities, NGOs and as a developer) which gave me the ability to understand and resolve problems and defined key solutions.
As an architect, I am offering expertise in producing concept designs, reports and reviewing authority’s submittals and negotiating with clients.
Reading: Design and architectural magazines such as Architectural Digest, METROPOLIS Magazine, and Spacing. Latest technologies introduced in planning, environment & architectural fields.
Photography & vidéo montage: Nature, Monuments and celebrations.
Traveling: new adventures and archaeological sites
Senior consultant of the Ping An Smart City Institute
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne(2016- to date): Executive Master in Innovative Governance of Large Urban SystemsThe University of Hong Kong (2011-2012): Master’s degree in E-commerce & Internet computingBeijing University of Posts & Telecommunications (2005-2009)
Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design
Minor Study, Marketing (2007-2009)
Senior Consultant (2018): Ping An International Smart City Corporation
Senior Consultant (2013/4-2016/12): IBM, Global Business Service, Creative & Strategy Design
Product Manager (2009/7-2011/5): China Mobile Communication Corporation, Group Customer Department
Specialized in business/customer requirement analysis, user-centric business process optimization and user experience design. With industry experiences of finance, banking, telecommunication, retail and government from the first tier companies in China.
Projects experience including smart park strategy design, smart retail banking branch innovation, mobile phone customer service experience design, internal enterprise employee innovation platform design, and membership loyalty strategy design for a fast moving consumer goods company, etc.
Currently focus on the smart city, ekistics, and user experience design.
Interested in observing the urban systems in the sense of individual;
Passionate about introducing the user-experience concept and applying the user-centric experience design methodology in urban settings.
Study the requirement of typical roles of urban participants by means of scenario analysis, in order to understand the essential needs of each rule in a consolidated aspect rather than which is isolated by functions.
Design city service solutions by leveraging the information and mobile technology rationally, and optimize the complex urban systems in the consolidate and agile way. Also interested in the comparisons between western and eastern cities.
Pedestrian Consultant
James was educated in South Africa, attending Rhodes University where he completed a BA (Hons) with majors in Politics, History, and Philosophy. He went on to complete an MA in Philosophy through the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
James has traveled and worked in several countries from Brazil and Uruguay to China and Malaysia. His interest is in developing and previously colonised countries. He was employed as an urban planner for a bike sharing company in Kuala Lumpur before accepting a research position with Think City, a Malaysian think tank examining urban issues.
James is principally interested in low tech solutions to complex urban problems. Many of the problems that plague rapidly growing cities are not issues of technology but issues of resource allocation. Design plays a major role in shaping our cities and societies. Design informed by a sense of justice is needed to overcome exclusionary and divided cities. Strong leadership and good governance are a prerequisite to any meaningful urban development.
Samah has a Bachelor’s degree in Architect and Urban Planning from University of Umm-Dorman in Sudan and Master degree in Business administration specialized in Marketing. With some professional certificates such as PMP, Green Project Management (GPM-b) and LEED Green Associate.
Samah was driven more to Urban planning during her 11 year of experience at Town Planning Administration in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, with extensive experience in planning and promoting urban development plans and policies for local government impacting land use, zoning, public utilities, housing, and transportation. Plus managing and facilitating the cooperation with other private and public entities.
Samah is always open for volunteer opportunities that are related to Africa Urban and Sustainable development, Affordable housing, and building healthy cities.
Telekom Malaysia
Telekom Malaysia Berhad
1 May 2010 – 31 August 2015
Assistant General Manager, Financial Advisory & Business Development, TM Group Strategy
Telekom Applied Business Sdn Bhd (a wholly owned subsidiary of Telekom Malaysia)1 December 2006 – 30 April 2010Market Analyst, Marketing & Business Development
Telekom Applied Business Sdn Bhd (a wholly owned subsidiary of Telekom Malaysia)1 September 1998 – 31 December 2003Human Resource Executive
My objective in joining this program is for me to be able to gather knowledge in the management of large urban systems, through discussions with experts as well as through benchmarks with other cities around the world. Through this knowledge, I am confident that I would be better equipped to help TM build a team that will be able to execute TM’s smart city aspiration and tackle the many challenges associated with it.
Peter Scholz
I have an unrealized passion for planning of large urban systems, which is sometimes called metroplexing. Metropolitan complexes, or metroplexes, are formed either by many large cities gradually sprawling into one another, such as Megalopolis in the northeast USA or the Pearl Delta region of China (Hong Kong to Macau); or from densely-populated rural areas undergoing an urban transition, such as is happening in Kerala or central Bangladesh. My ideal role would be in a leadership position, establishing land use plans and governance systems for emerging metroplexes through democratic processes.
To accomplish this, I must adjust my skillset from a rural regional focus, to an urban regional focus; while transitioning leadership skills from leading-from-behind visioning more into the power projection aspects associated with a senior executive.
Systra
I have a Master degree of the Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’Etat, Lyon. , Major in Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Science and Urban planning. I have also material science engineer with a double degree in INPL (Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine ) in Nancy and Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
I have been working for five years in the field of public Transport Design
I am a Civil Engineer specialized in Tunnel and Underground Structures. I began working in Projects of Tunnel Design and Calculations, my main projects were LINE 15 EAST “GRAND PARIS EXPRESS, RAILWAY LINK BETWEEN LYON AND TORINO and Offer Stage of Mumbai metro line 3.
Actually I am working as a technical Coordinator, my main work is to coordinate civil works with, architectural and functional studies. Lead with the civil works studies, make the interface with the client and other territorial projects and local partners. My main projects are:
Station of Bry-Villiers Champigny, Line 15 South of Grand Paris Express (2015)
Tunnel and shafts in the Orly Airport Sector, Line 14 of Grand Paris Express (present)
I am really interested about the organization of the city. How transport and housing could be well coordinated in order to make and attractive territory. I am convinced that to make changes, especially in my field, one has to encourage the creation of human scale cities. These cities must be more respectful of diversity, more efficient, more productive and fair. It is important to focus on the implementation of new policies that encourage this purpose, especially in southern counties, as my country Peru.
Carmen is a civil engineer with a multidisciplinary approach to her education and work. She holds a Bachelor’s degree (2016) in Public Works Engineering from Universidade da Coruña (Spain), with a specialization in Transportation and Urban Services. During her year abroad (2014/2015) at Politecnico di Torino she complemented her studies with courses on urbanism and urban design. She joined the IGLUS Executive Master program in September 2017 with the objective of learning more about governance and digitalization. Her masters’ thesis explores the current situation of urban utilities in Switzerland – she graduated in July 2019.
Her working experience involves also several areas of expertise. As a student, Carmen worked as a research assistant for the Water and Environmental Engineering Group (GEAMA) of UDC; and carried out internships in both the private and public sectors, in the fields of construction and mobility. In her free time, she has also joined voluntary activities related to education and environment. Currently, she is working as a Network Planner for Flixbus, in Berlin, where she is part of the team designing and optimizing the company’s intercity bus network in the Iberian Peninsula in partnership with regional-based companies.
Internet Society (IEEE)
Azman holds a PhD from Lancaster University, UK. His thesis in Autonomic Resilience Strategy aims to solve protect Internet Critical Infrastructure against security challenges, leveraging on an evolving Machine Learning Technique. Azman has author/co-authored several papers on Network Resilience, Policy-Based Management and Intelligent Systems and has presented his works across Europe and Malaysia.
Azman has more than 18 years of experience in IT and telecommunication and has been involved in developing Malaysia Internet Exchange (MyIX), Datacenters, Network and Security Infrastructure for Telekom Malaysia (ISP). In 2010, he joined a Research group on Network Resilience and Security at Infolab21 in the UK where he completed his PhD. Since 2014, he joined Telekom Malaysia consultancy unit, that provides technology and business solution for Utilities sector as well as Transportation, Environmental and Real Estate. He is currently looking into Advanced Metering, Smart Energy/water Grid solution as well as other ICT transformation projects in general. Azman was occasionally invited to share taught with industry players, academia and government agencies and appointed as Research Partners for Resilient City (Government’s initiative on Disaster Management) and UK-Malaysia City of the Future Forum.
Cyber-physical Security & Resilience , Evolving Intelligent system (Machine Learning), IoT infrastructure (LoRA/NBIoT) and Big Data Analytic especially for Infrastructure management such as SCADA systems, Industrial Control Systems, cyber-physical systems for Innovative Urban Management and Urban Analytic in particular.
Head of corporate relations at J’son & Partners Consulting
Education
Music College, certificated teacher
Bachelor and Master Degree in political science, NNSU, Russia
Unfinished PHD in sphere of International Space Law
Work experience
Teacher in music school, 2000-2005
Journalist, deputy editor, in IT sphere, 2007-2012
(Since 2013 till now) Consultant, senior consultant, head of corporate relations at one of think tanks based in Moscow (ICT, digital, industrialization)
Areas of interest
Travel, globalization as an intercultural phenomenon, history, geography, music, civilizational aspects of human settlements’ growth
Bertha is a wholeheartedly volunteer who has contributed for almost 25 years to several organizations in education, training, and skills development providing opportunities and resilience to people who live in communities that face constant challenges in the economic, social, cultural and environmental areas. Holding a bachelor in Computer Science by Universidad Veracruzana, in Xalapa, Mexico; and several studies & experiences in human development, social work and education in different states of Mexico, she is proud of being part of the first generation of the EPFL IGLUS Program.
Before beginning her MBA degree studies in San Diego, CA, Bertha continued her work in Guadalajara, Mexico, at Organismo de Nutrición Infantil (ONI), an organization that dedicates efforts and resources to undernourished children by providing food products as well as facilitating tools of Education and Human Development for families in vulnerable communities. At the same time, along with close friends, she contributed to the foundation and activities of Comunidad Educativa Ambiental (CEA), a nonprofit association for the research and outreach of environmental education with a hands-on approach for institutions, businesses and citizen’s life style. Just a short time after its inception, CEA has reached important goals thanks to the collaboration of its members, for the benefit of the community and city.
As a part of her experience, along with her partner, Bertha also owned and managed a small business for more than 10 years.
Bertha is a naturally positive, dynamic and deep reflective human being. She recognizes herself as a respectful and never-stop-learning-and-sharing person who enjoys family, nature, jogging, traveling, researching and learning.
In order to apply, applicants need to have a master’s degree and five years of professional experience. Some exceptions can be made for persons holding a four-year bachelor’s degree.
To obtain more information, or a preliminary evaluation of your eligibility to apply to the IGLUS Executive master, please send us your CV below. Study regulations (in French) are available here.