IUPEA - International Urban Planning and Environment Association
CITIES FOR US
engaging communities and citizens for sustainable development
CITIES FOR US
engaging communities and citizens for sustainable development
UPE 12 Keynote Speakers
Simin Davoudi
Simin Davoudi is Professor of Environmental Policy & Planning at School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, and Associate Director of the Institute for Sustainability at Newcastle University. She is past President of the Association of the European Schools of Planning (AESOP); Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She has led the UK Office of Deputy Prime Minister’s Planning Research Network; was a member of expert panels for: 3 UK government departments (DCLG, DECC & DEFRA), 2 EU Directorate Generals (Environment & Regional Policy), the ESRC Grant Assessment Panel, Research Excellence Framework (REF), and several European research councils; held visiting professorship at the universities of: Amsterdam and Nijmegen (Netherlands), Karlskrona (Sweden), Virginia Tech (USA) and RMIT (Australia) and served on several advisory councils (including Hong Kong University); is co-Editor of the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. Her research on urban planning, environmental governance, climate change and resilience is published widely. Selected books include: Justice and Fairness in the City (2016, Policy Press), Town and Country Planning in the UK (2015, Routledge), Reconsidering Localism (2015, Routledge), Climate Change and Sustainable Cities (Routledge, 2014), Conceptions of Space and Place in Strategic Spatial Planning (Routledge, 2009), Planning for Climate Change (Earthscan, 2009) Planning, Governance and Spatial Strategy in Britain (Macmillan, 2000).
Paulo Ferrão
President of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), the public agency that funds scientific sector.Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico of Universidade de Lisboa where he is co-founder and actually President of the Scientific Council of the of IN+, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research. He is the National Director of the MIT-Portugal Program, the major international partnership on Science and Technology in Portugal, in the field of Engineering Systems. He is also the Portuguese representative at the Steering Group of the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) and the Director of the Energy Technologies Competitiveness Cluster in Portugal (PCTE).
Gert de Roo
Full professor in Spatial Planning, Head of Department of the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen. De Roo is responsible for various fields of research, all of which are related to decision-making concerning purposful interventions within the physical environment. Most of his research and his publications are focusing on decentralization processes, in particular those concerning physical and environmental planning. Another part of his research focuses on the development of decision-making models that support choices concerning interventions within the physical environment. In his research De Roo takes the stand the world develops non-linear, is dynamic and is to be seen as 'complex'.
De Roo participates in various national and international associations and organizations, all of them having in common the physical environment, quality of life, sustainability and urban development. Gert de Roo is elected President of the Association for European Schools of Planning (AESOP), which is from 2011 until 2015. De Roo is editor of AESOP's InPlanning Digital Platform, and the Ashgate Publishing Series on Planning Theory. He also participated in the editorial board of Planning Theory & Practice.