urban age conference developing urban futures · day 1 thursday 29 november 2018 08.30–09.30...

DAY 1 THURSDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2018 08.30–09.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

09.30–09.45 WELCOME

Takele Uma Banti, Mayor of Addis Ababa, EthiopiaAnna Herrhausen, Executive Director, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft, BerlinJulia Black, Pro Director for Research, London School of Economics (LSE)

09.45–10.00 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies, LSE & Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age

10.00–11.15 AFRICA’S CORE CHALLENGES

Co-chairs: Joachim Fritz, Head of Department Governance and Conflict, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany and Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age

Introductory Keynotes (15 min each)

GOVERNING URBAN CHANGEMpho Parks Tau, President, UCLG, Barcelona & Mayor of Johannesburg (2011-16)

DEFINING AFRICAN URBANISMEdgar Pieterse, Director, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town & Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow, Robert Bosch Academy, Berlin

AFRICA’S ECONOMIC POTENTIAL Somik V Lall, Global Lead for Regional Development Solutions, World Bank, Washington D.C.

CHALLENGES FOR YOUNG AFRICAAlcinda Honwana, Inter-Regional Adviser on Social Development Policy, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)

11.15–11.45 COFFEE

11.45–13.15 URBAN GROWTH, PRODUCTIVITY & INNOVATION

Co-chairs: Geci Karuri-Sebina, Associate, South African Cities Network, Johannesburg and Edgar Pieterse, Director, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town & Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow, Robert Bosch Academy, Berlin

Framing Presentation (15 min)J Vernon Henderson, School Professor of Economic Geography, LSE

Panel Discussion (45 min)Emanuel Admassu, Founding Partner, AD-WO & Assistant Professor, Rhode Island School of Design; Brenda Katwesigye, Founder and CEO, Wazi Vision, Kampala; Abdellah Mallek, Founder, Sylabs, Algiers; Kate Meagher, Associate Professor in Development Studies, LSE; Philipp Misselwitz, Chair, International Urbanism and Design, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin; Bikhado D Ofungi, Investor, Dero Capital, Kampala; Irene Sun, Author and Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company, Washington D.C.

Open Discussion (30 min)

13.15–14.15 LUNCH

14.15–15.45 PLANNING FUNDAMENTALS

Co-chairs: Susan Parnell, Global Challenges Chair, University of Bristol & Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town and Rahul Mehrotra, Principal, RMA Architects, Mumbai and Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Presentations (7 min each)

COMPARING URBAN DEVELOPMENT MODELSParis, France: Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris, FranceMedellín, Colombia: Alejandro Echeverri, Director, URBAM Center for urban and environmental studies, Universidad EAFIT, MedellínSeoul, South Korea: Hyungmin Pai, Professor of Architecture, University of SeoulAddis Ababa, Ethiopia: Fasil Giorghis, Chair of Conservation of Urban and Architectural Heritage, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityKigali, Rwanda: Christian Benimana, Principal and Managing Director, MASS Design Group & Director, African Design Centre, Kigali

Panel Discussion (30 min)


15.45–16.15 COFFEE

16.15–18.00 DELIVERING HOUSING FOR ALL

Co-chairs: Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age and Tau Tavengwa, Co-Founder and Editor, Cityscapes Magazine, Cape Town & Visiting Associate, LSE Cities

Framing Presentations (10 min each)

Gautam Bhan, Lead, Academics and Research, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore Jose Castillo, Principal, a911, Mexico City Kecia Rust, Executive Director and Founder, Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa, Johannesburg


MASS HOUSING MODELSAddis Ababa, Ethiopia: Elias Yitbarek Alemayehu, Architect and Urban Planner, EIABC, Addis Ababa University Singapore: Belinda Yuen, Professorial Fellow and Research Director, Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design Karachi, Pakistan: Arif Hasan, Director, Urban Resource Centre, Karachi

COMMUNITY-LED INITIATIVESJoseph Muturi, National Co-ordinator, Kenyan Slum Dwellers Federation & Co-ordinator, East and West Africa, SDI Taibat Lawanson, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, University of Lagos



DAY 2 FRIDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2018

08.30–09.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

09.30–11.00 TRANSPORT TRANSITIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Co-chairs: Elleni Ashebir, Cities and Urban Mobility Program Manager, WRI Africa, Addis Ababa and Philipp Rode, Co-Director of the Executive MSc in Cities, LSE & Executive Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age


TRANSIT FUTURES AND INFRASTRUCTURE Ladi Lawanson, Honourable Commissioner for Transportation, Lagos State GovernmentSolomon Kidane, Deputy Mayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

POPULAR TRANSIT 2.0 Jacqueline M Klopp, Research Scholar, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York Justin Coetzee, Founder, GoMetro and flxrides.com, Cape Town Kate Meagher, Associate Professor in Development Studies, LSE

VIRTUAL PLATFORMS AND REAL CITIESJean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris, FranceYolisa Kani, Head of Public Policy, Uber Southern Africa, Johannesburg

Panel Discussions (55 min)

11.00–11.30 COFFEE

11.30–13.00 ETHIOPIA’S URBAN TRANSFORMATION

Co-chairs: Fasil Giorghis, Chair of Conservation of Urban and Architectural Heritage, EiABC, Addis Ababa University and Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age


THE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVEJantirar Abay, Minister for Urban Development and Construction, Government of Ethiopia

SHAPING ADDIS ABABA’S FUTURETakele Uma Banti, Mayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Panel Discussion (40 min)Marc Angelil, Architect and Professor of Architecture & Design, ETH Zürich; Zegeye Cherenet, Assistant Professor, EiABC, Addis Ababa University; Betelehem Demissie Shibeshi, Spatial Plan Preparation Director, Addis Ababa City Government Plan Commission; Maheder Gebremedhin, Principal, Yema Architecture and Radio Host, Kebet Eske Ketema, Addis Ababa; Dieter Läpple, Emeritus Professor, HafenCity University, Hamburg; Patrick Lamson-Hall, Research Scholar, Urban Expansion Program, NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management, New York; Rahel Shawl, Founder and Managing Director, RAAS Architect, Addis Ababa


13.00–14.00 LUNCH

14.00–15.45 FINANCING URBAN FUTURES

Co-chairs: Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age andAstrid Haas, Senior Country Economist (Cities), Cities that Work, IGC, Kampala

Keynotes (15 min each)

THE POLITICS OF URBAN FINANCE Vera Songwe, Under Secretary General, UN & Executive Secretary, UNECA, Addis AbabaBabatunde Fashola, Minister for Power, Housing and Works, Government of Nigeria Jennifer Semakula-Musisi, Executive Director, Kampala Capital City Authority, Uganda


INVESTING IN CITIESSamih Sawiris, Chairman of Orascom Development Holding GA, Switzerland and Cairo, EgyptTsedeke Yihunie Woldu, Founder, Flintstones Engineering, Addis AbabaNyah Zebong, Project Leader, African Property Tax Initiative, International Centre for Tax and Development, Yaoundé, Cameroon


15.45–16.15 COFFEE

16.15–17.45 THE INCLUSIVE CITY

Co-chairs: Jo Beall, Director Cultural Engagement, British Council & Professorial Research Fellow, LSE and Gautam Bhan, Lead, Academics and Research, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore


DESIGNING INCLUSIVITYRahul Mehrotra, Principal, RMA Architects, Mumbai & Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Omar Nagati, Founding Partner, CLUSTER (CairoLab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research)

DELIVERING INCLUSIVITYMohammed Adjei Sowah, Mayor of Accra, GhanaUlrich Hoerning, Deputy Mayor of Leipzig, GermanyErion Veliaj, Mayor of Tirana, Albania

Panel Discussion (20 min)Yeraswork Admassie, Executive Director, Forum for Social Studies, Addis Ababa; Alcinda Honwana, Inter-Regional Adviser on Social Development Policy, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York; Beth Stryker, Founding Partner, CLUSTER (CairoLab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research)


17.45–18.00 CONCLUDING REMARKS

Anna Herrhausen, Executive Director, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft, Berlin

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Jantirar AbayMinister of Urban Development and Construction, Government

of EthiopiaJantirar Yigzaw Abay is an Ethiopian politician who is currently the Minister of Urban Development and Construction. Previously he has served as North Wollo Zone Deputy Administrator; Head of Urban Works and Development; Deputy Head of Amhara Bureau of Industry and Urban Development; and Head of Amhara Road Transport Bureau. Born in Wollo, Amhara Region, he studied Urban Planning and Architecture, Urban Design and Development.

Mohammed Adjei SowahMayor of Accra, Ghana Mayor Adjei Sowah is social entrepreneur with over

23 years’ experience in local economic development and small business development. He chairs the Greater Accra Public Transport Executive (GAPTE), and is an executive member on the Technical Advisory Board of the landmark coastal redevelopment initiative, Marine Drive Project. Mayor Adjei Sowah is a Vice Chair (Africa) on the Steering Committee of C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group.

Yeraswork AdmassieExecutive Director, Forum for Social StudiesYeraswork Admassie is

Executive Director of the Forum for Social Studies, and taught Sociology at Addis Ababa University until June 2018. He was a member of the Addis Ababa Master Plan Project advisory think-tank and still serves on the Technical Committee of the Addis Ababa Rivers and Riversides Development Project.

Emanuel AdmassuFounding Partner, AD-WO & Assistant Professor, RISDEmanuel Admassu is an

architect from Addis Ababa, founding partner of AD-WO together with Jen Wood, and Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He has previously taught at Columbia University (GSAPP) and worked with practices in Atlanta and New York City. Admassu has recently been examining the constructed identities of urban markets in East Africa.

Elias Yitbarek AlemayehuArchitect and Urban Planner, EIABC, Addis Ababa University

Elias Yitbarek Alemayehu is Assistant Professor at EiABC, Addis Ababa University. He is the founder of EiABC’s Housing Chair and its Masters programme in Housing and Sustainable Development. He is the co-editor and author of the book The Transformation of Addis Ababa: A Multiform African City (2018). He was the Research Director of EiABC and the President of the Association of Ethiopian Architects.

Marc Angélil Architect and Professor of Architecture and Design, ETH Zürich

Marc Angélil is Professor at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich. His research focuses on social and spatial developments of large metropolitan regions worldwide. He is the author of several books, including Cidade de Deus!,

on informal mass housing in Rio de Janeiro, and Cities of Change: Addis Ababa, on urban transformation in developing countries. Mirroring Effects: Tales of Territory, will be published in 2019.

Elleni AshebirCities and Urban Mobility Program Manager, WRI AfricaElleni Ashebir is Cities

and Urban Mobility Program Manager, Ross Center for Sustainable Cities World Resource Institute, Africa. She has rich experience in Ethiopia’s urban development and has worked in national, regional and city-level government. She has worked closely with local communities and vulnerable groups to help ensure socially equitable, environmentally sustainable and economically viable development.

Takele Uma BantiMayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Takele Banti is Mayor of

Addis Ababa. He has served as mayor for two Oromia regional state towns, Sebeta and Holeta, and was Manager for Sululta Municipal Administration. Previously, he served as head of Oromia Transport authority and General Manager of Oromia Urban Land sector. He has been awarded diverse prizes for his prosperous city initiative, good governance and exemplary leadership.

Jo BeallDirector Cultural Engagement, British Council & Professorial Research Fellow, LSE

Jo Beall is a Professorial Research Fellow at the LSE and on the Executive Board of the British Council. Professor Beall has conducted research in Africa and Asia on urban development and governance as well as cities in situations of conflict and state fragility. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Open University.

Christian Benimana Principal and Managing Director, MASS Design Group & Director, African Design

Centre, Kigali Christian Benimana joined MASS Design Group as a Global Health Corps Design Fellow in 2010. Today he works as one of the firm’s Principals and Managing Directors, and is Director of the African Design Centre. He received his architecture degree from Tongji University in Shanghai, China and serves as secretary general of the East Africa Institute of Architects.

Gautam BhanLead, Academics and Research, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore

Gautam Bhan is Lead, Academics and Research at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore. He teaches and writes on issues of urban housing, poverty and inequality. He is most recently the author of In the Public’s Interest: Evictions, Citizenship and Inequality in Millennial Delhi.

Julia BlackPro Director for Research, LSEProfessor Julia Black FBA is the Pro Director for Research

at the LSE, and from 2016–17 served as LSE’s Interim Director. She is a Law

Department professor, specialising in financial services regulation and the regulation of risk. She has advised many governmental and consumer bodies in the UK and overseas and in December 2018 she joins the board of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority.

Ricky BurdettProfessor of Urban Studies, LSE & Director, Urban Age and LSE Cities

Ricky Burdett is an urbanist who runs a teaching and research centre on cities at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He acts as adviser to national and city governments, private companies and philanthropic agencies. He sits on the Mayor of London’s Cultural Leadership Board and was Chief Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics, a member of the UK Government’s Independent Airports Commission and architectural adviser to the Mayor of London from 2001 to 2006.

Jose CastilloPrincipal a911, Mexico City Jose Castillo is a practising architect and urban planner

in Mexico City and a Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Alongside Saidee Springall he founded a911, an independent practice based in Mexico City. Their work includes award-winning social housing projects, cultural facilities, infrastructure and large-scale masterplans. Castillo is member of the advisory board of LSE Cities and Urban Age.

Zegeye CherenetAssistant Professor, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityZegeye Cherenet is an

architect, Assistant Professor and Head of Competence Center for Architecture and Design in the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (EiABC) at Addis Ababa University (AAU). He is also Head of the Emerging Cities Lab (ECL)–Addis Ababa and runs a consulting firm, OADUS (office for architecture, design and urban studies), located in Addis Ababa.

Justin CoetzeeFounder, GoMetro and flxrides.comJustin Coetzee is the founder

of GoMetro, one of the world’s leading firms in urban mobility analytics and data collection in developing markets, especially with informal transport services, and headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa. He is also the founder of flxrides.com, a flexible mobility platform that enables a Demand-Responsive Transit (DRT) technology platform enabling cities, corporates and transport operators to provide efficient and shared on-demand transport services rationalising private vehicle use and fixed-route bus services.

Alejandro Echeverri Director, URBAM Center for urban and environmental studies, Universidad

EAFIT, MedellínAlejandro believes in the ethical responsibility of designers to contribute towards a better society. He is Co-Founder and Director of URBAM, the Center for Urban and Environmental Studies, at EAFIT University in Medellín, Colombia. His experience combines architectural,

urban, environmental and planning projects. He is a Loeb Fellow from Harvard GSD and was given the Obayashi Prize in 2016.

Babatunde FasholaMinister for Power, Housing and Works, Government of Nigeria

Babatunde Raji Fashola is a Nigerian politician who is currently the Federal Minister of Power, Works and Housing. He was Lagos State Governor for two four-year terms from May 2007 to May 2015. Born in Lagos, Fashola studied Law at the University of Benin and, after going through Nigerian Law School, was called to the Nigerian bar as a solicitor and advocate of the Supreme Court.

Joachim FritzHead of Department Governance and Conflict, GIZ Joachim Fritz is Head of the

GIZ’s Sector Division Governance and Conflict, Eschborn, Germany. His areas of expertise include public administration, decentralisation, intergovernmental relations, public finances, peace and security, as well as violence prevention and urban development. His 20-year career comprises senior programme manager positions in several long-term projects in Africa and Latin America. Fritz holds a Diploma in Administrative Sciences from the University of Constance.

Maheder Gebremedhin Principal, Yema Architecture, host of Kebet eske Ketema, Addis Ababa

Maheder Gebremedhin is the principal architect of Yema Architecture and the producer/presenter of the weekly radio show ‘Kebet Eske Ketema’ since December 2007. He is the Director of The Urban Center. He has served as a think-tank group member for Addis Ababa Planning commission and has been a jury member of many local and international design competitions.

Fasil GiorghisChair of Conservation of Urban and Architectural Heritage, EiABC,

Addis Ababa UniversityFasil Giorghis is Associate Professor of Architecture and Chair Holder of Conservation of Urban and Architectural Heritage at EIABC, Addis Ababa University. His design work in his architectural practice focuses on conservation of historic structures and design of public and private buildings, where he combines local materials, indigenous knowledge and environmental concerns in contemporary design.

Astrid HaasSenior Country Economist (Cities), Manager, Cities that Work, IGC

Astrid is currently a Senior Country Economist and Manager of the Cities that Work Initiative, working with the International Growth Centre across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Her research specialises in policy issues around municipal finance. In 2016, she was nominated by the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town as one of Africa’s Young Leaders.

Arif HasanDirector, Urban Resource Centre, KarachiArif Hasan is a Pakistani

architect, writer and activist. He has been associated with the Orangi Pilot Project since 1981 and is the Founder Chair of the Urban Resource Centre, Karachi. He is also a founding member of the Asian Collation for Housing Rights and was the Chair of the Government’s task force on Urban Development. His pro-poor activism has led to considerable awareness and changes in policies and projects in Pakistan.

J Vernon HendersonSchool Professor of Economic Geography, LSEVernon Henderson is School

Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. His research focuses on China and parts of sub-Saharan Africa, sponsored by the EU, World Bank and DFID. He studies the evolution of urban systems and the built environment, in the face of changing institutions and structural transformation. He is co-editor of the Journal of Urban Economics and the Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics and serves on a number of boards.

Anna HerrhausenExecutive Director, Alfred Herrhausen GesellschaftAnna Herrhausen is

the Executive Director of the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft. She holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University, an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University and a PhD in Political Science from Freie Universitaet Berlin. Her professional experience amounts to, in total, 15 years in management consulting as well as in corporate responsibility.

Ulrich HoerningDeputy Mayor of Leipzig, GermanyUlrich Hoerning is Deputy

Mayor for General Services in the City of Leipzig, Germany. He is responsible for modernisation of core administrative processes. Previously Hoerning worked as an economist at the World Bank in Washington DC and as strategy officer at the Federal Ministry of Finance in Berlin. Hoerning has studied at the University of Tübingen, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris) and Harvard Kennedy School.

Alcinda HonwanaInter-Regional Adviser on Social Development Policy, United Nations Department of

Economic and Social Affairs Alcinda Honwana is Inter-Regional Adviser on social development policy at the United Nations. She is also Visiting Professor of International Development at the Open University, where she held a Chair in International Development. Honwana developed extensive research on youth transitions, social movements and youth politics in Africa. Her latest books: Youth and Revolution in Tunisia (2013) and The Time of Youth: Work, Social Change and Politics in Africa (2012).

Yolisa KaniHead of Public Policy, Uber Southern AfricaYolisa Kani is a qualified

transport planner with a special focus on public transport planning and operations. She spent over 15 years in the government sector working for the City of Johannesburg and the City of Ekurhuleni.

Currently she chairs the Metrobus Board and serves on the Advisory Board of Africa Teen Geeks, an NPO teaching South African children computer skills, coding and robotics.

Geci Karuri-SebinaAssociate, South African Cities Network, JohannesburgGeci is a Johannesburg-based

scholar-practitioner who mainly works on urban planning and governance issues. She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow with the Wits School of Governance and National Organiser of the Civic Tech Innovation Network in South Africa. Her experience spans a range of development foresight, policy, innovation and practice topics, particularly relating to cities and local systems.

Brenda KatwesigyeFounder and CEO, Wazi Vision Brenda Katwesigye is founder

and CEO of Wazi Vision, a company incorporated in Uganda that builds eyewear and construction material from recycled plastic. Brenda is an alumnus of Vodafone’s FLANE programme, a 2018 Westerwelle Foundation fellow, a 2016 Mandela Washington Fellow and has served on the Regional Advisory Board of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) and the Board of the STARTS Prize of the Ars Electronica.

Solomon KidaneDeputy Mayor of Addis Ababa Solomon Kidane is the Economic Sector Deputy

Mayor and Head of Transport Bureau of Addis Ababa City Government. He was the head of Addis Ababa City Road and Transport Bureau and before that, the General Manager of Addis Ababa City Transport Programs Management Office.

Jacqueline M KloppResearch Scholar, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Earth Institute,

Columbia UniversityJacqueline Klopp is a Research Scholar at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at Columbia University. She teaches in the Sustainable Development program, and her research focuses on the intersection of sustainable transport, land use, accountability, data and technology. Klopp is a co-founder of Digital Matatus, a consortium that mapped out and created open data for bus routes in Nairobi, Kenya, the Digital Cairo project and the new open collaborative platform DigitalTransport4Africa.org.

Somik V LallGlobal Lead for Regional Development Solutions, World Bank

Somik V Lall is the World Bank’s Global Lead on Territorial Development Solutions and its Lead Economist for Urban Development. He is a recognised expert on development policy related to urban and territorial competitiveness, agglomeration and clusters, and infrastructure, with over 20 years’ global experience, most notably in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Patrick Lamson-HallResearch Scholar, Urban Expansion Program, NYU Marron Institute of Urban

ManagementPatrick Lamson-Hall is a researcher and urban planner. He is a co-author of the Atlas of Urban Expansion 2016 edition, and an advocate for a form-based and metropolitan definition of cities. He is Project Co-ordinator of the Green Climate Fund program, Climate Smart Cities: Grenada; Co-ordinator of the Ethiopia Urban Expansion Initiative; and Co-Founder of the India Urban Expansion Observatory.

Dieter LäppleEmeritus Professor, HafenCity University, HamburgDieter Läpple is Professor

Emeritus of International Urban Studies at the HafenCity University, Hamburg, Germany. For many years he directed the Institute for Urban Economics at the University of Technology, Hamburg. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ‘Future Cities Laboratory’ of the Singapore-ETH Centre and Co-Initiator of ‘NesTown’ – an urban development project in North Ethiopia.

Ladi Lawanson Honourable Commissioner for transportation, Lagos State Government

Ladi Lawanson is Honourable Commissioner for transportation, Lagos State, Nigeria. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Liberia and Master of International Law and Diplomacy from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Until his appointment in February 2018, he was a management consultant and business development executive engaged in the implementation of the Nigerian–German Energy partnership.

Taibat Lawanson Associate Professor of Urban Planning, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Taibat Lawanson is Associate Professor of Urban Planning, and Acting Director of the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, where she leads the Pro-poor development research cluster. Her research focuses on urban informality, environmental justice and pro-poor development in Lagos. She is interested in how formal and informal systems can synthesise in African urban contexts.

Abdellah MallekFounder, Sylabs, AlgiersAbdellah Mallek is the founder of Sylabs, a tech and

entrepreneurship hub in Algiers. He works on empowering young Algerians to start their own businesses, or gain new skills. In three years, Sylabs has helped tens of small businesses start or grow their activities, and gathered a community of thousands people sharing the same passion for tech, digital and entrepreneurship. Abdellah was listed in Forbes Africa 30 under 30 and Choiseul.

Kate MeagherAssociate Professor in Development Studies, LSEKate Meagher is an Associate

Professor in Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She specialises in African informal economies, and has

published widely on social networks, hybrid governance, youth unemployment, taxation and digital inclusion. Recent publications include co-edited Special Forum ‘Making the Right Connections: Globalization, Economic Inclusion and African Workers,’ Journal of Development Studies 52(4), 2016.

Rahul MehrotraPrincipal, RMA Architects, Mumbai & Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Graduate

School of Design, Harvard UniversityRahul Mehrotra is a practising architect and educator. He works in Mumbai and teaches at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where he is Professor of Urban Design and Planning. His practice, RMA Architects, founded in 1990, has executed a range of projects across India. Mehrotra has written, co-authored and edited a vast repertoire of books on Mumbai, its urban history, its historic buildings, public spaces and planning processes.

Philipp MisselwitzChair, International Urbanism and Design, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin

Architect and urban planner educated at Cambridge University and the Architectural Association London. PhD in 2009. Since 2013, Chair of Habitat Unit at Technical University Berlin. Research and practice relate to user-driven and process-oriented planning, participation and co-production in transformation-to-sustainability processes and urbanisation impact of translocal dynamics such as migration or globalised production. Partner at Berlin-based consultancy Urban Catalyst GmbH.

Jean-Louis MissikaDeputy Mayor of Paris in charge of urbanism, architecture, projects of Greater

Paris, economic development and attractiveness, FranceJean-Louis Missika is Deputy Mayor of Paris and was Co-Director of Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s team during the2014 Paris municipal elections. He is a sociologist specialising in media sociology and has continued his teaching alongside a career in politics and consultancy. His political career began in 2008 when he was elected councillor of Paris and was appointed Deputy Mayor by Bertrand Delanoë. He is responsible for the Reinventing Paris initiative that is implementing major projects across Greater Paris.

Joseph MuturiNational Co-ordinator, Muungano wa Wanavijiji, Kenyan Slum Dwellers

Federation & Co-ordinator, East and West Africa, SDIJoseph Muturi is a social activist and leader of Muungano Wa Wanavijiji, the national federation of slum dwellers in Kenya. Muturi has been extensively involved in government and city-led projects that affect urban poor communities in Kenya, working with donor agencies and academia to help build strong relationships between such programmes and the residents for whom they are intended. Muturi sits on SDI’s international management committee and council, and is part of SDI’s global advocacy team.

Omar NagatiFounding Partner, CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental

Research)Omar Nagati is a practising architect and urban planner, and Co-Founder of CLUSTER, an urban design and research platform in downtown Cairo. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield, UK. Nagati is co-author with Beth Stryker of Archiving the City in Flux (2013), Street Vendors and the Contestation of Public Space (2017) and Creative Cities: Reframing Downtown Cairo (2016).

Bikhado D OfungiInvestor, Dero CapitalBikhado D Ofungi is the founder of Dero LLC, an

investment company with interests in the financial and renewable energy sectors in Africa. He is a member of the Government of Uganda’s Public Private Partnership (PPP) Committee. He has served as East Africa Director for Blue Financial Services, a pan-African microfinance business, and was also an advisor to the Uganda Retirement Benefits Retirement Authority (URBRA)

Hyungmin Pai Professor of Architecture, University of Seoul Hyungmin Pai is a historian,

critic and curator. He is author of The Portfolio and the Diagram, Sensuous Plan: The Architecture of Seung H-Sang, Key Concepts of Korean Architecture, and Architecture of Amorepacific. He was Director of the inaugural Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, twice Curator for the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (awarded the Golden Lion, 2014) and Chief Curator for the Gwangju Design Biennale.

Susan ParnellGlobal Challenges Chair, University of Bristol & Emeritus Professor, University

of Cape TownSusan Parnell co-founded the African Centre for Cities. She has been actively involved in local, national and global urban policy debates around the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal and is an active advocate for better science policy engagement on cities. Recent books include Building a Capable State: Post Apartheid Service Delivery (Zed, 2017) and The Urban Planet (Cambridge, 2017).

Edgar PieterseDirector, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town & Richard von Weizsäcker

Fellow at the Robert Bosch AcademyProfessor Edgar Pieterse is Founding Director of the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town. He is consulting editor for Cityscapes – an international occasional magazine on urbanism in the Global South. He is co-author of New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times (2017). He serves on the Advisory Boards of: Indian Institute for Human Settlements (Bangalore), LSE Cities (London), the Gauteng City-region Observatory (Johannesburg), and the Coalition for Urban Transitions.

Philipp RodeCo-Director of the Executive MSc in Cities, LSE & Executive Director,

LSE Cities and Urban AgePhilipp Rode is Executive Director of LSE Cities and Co-Director of the Executive MSc in Cities at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has been directing interdisciplinary projects comprising urban governance, transport, city planning and urban design at the LSE since 2003 and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).

Kecia Rust Executive Director and Founder, Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa

(CAHF)Kecia Rust is the Executive Director and founder of the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF). She is a housing policy specialist and has worked with both public-and private- sector practitioners in promoting access to affordable housing and housing finance in Africa for the past 20 years. From 2003–2014 she was the Housing Finance Co-ordinator at the FinMark Trust, from where CAHF was established.

Samih SawirisChairman of Orascom Development Holding GA, Switzerland and Cairo, Egypt

Samih Sawiris is the Founder of Orascom Development Holding GA, a development company that has delivered projects in Egypt, UAE, Oman, Morocco, Montenegro, Switzerland and the UK. He started the National Marine Boat Factory after receiving a Diploma in Economic Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin in 1980. He is a member of the Sawiris Foundation and a Trustee of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice.

Jennifer Semakula-MusisiExecutive Director, Kampala Capital City Authority, UgandaJennifer Semakula-Musisi is

the first Executive Director of the Kampala Capital City Authority – established to administer Uganda’s Capital City on behalf of the Central Government. Musisi has made enormous strides and exerted tremendous efforts towards the ongoing transformation of Kampala Capital City. Her achievements have become a benchmark for many upcoming municipalities in East Africa and beyond, resulting in numerous awards in recognition of her work.

Rahel Shawl Founder and Managing Director, Raas Architects, Addis Ababa

Rahel Shawl is founder and principal of Raas Architects plc in Addis Ababa. Since 1991, she has participated in and completed various notable building projects within Ethiopia, both local and through international collaborations. She has received the Aga Khan Award for architecture and the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard GSD as well as various recognitions from within Ethiopia for her leadership in design excellence and advocacy for equitable architectural practices.

Betelehem Demissie ShibeshiSpatial Plan Preparation Director, Addis Ababa City

Government Plan Commission Betelehem Demissie Shibeshi is the Spatial Plan Preparation Director at Addis Ababa City Government Plan Commission. She received an architect-planner degree from Addis Ababa University and an MSc from KU Leuven in Belgium. She began her 15-year career as a junior planner for towns in Ethiopia and moved on to more expert roles in Addis’s recently enacted 10th master plan and engagements with UN-Habitat in Somaliland (2005–07).

Vera SongweUnder Secretary General, UN & Executive Secretary, UNECAVera Songwe is Executive

Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa. Prior to joining the ECA, she was Regional Director of the International Finance Corporation, covering West and Central Africa. In addition, she continues to serve as a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Africa Growth Initiative. She is also a member of the African Union institutional reform team and a board member of the African Leadership Network and the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. Previously, she was Country Director for the World Bank, covering Cape Verde, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and Senegal.

Beth StrykerFounding Partner, CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental

Research)Beth Stryker is co-founder of CLUSTER. CLUSTER has received critical recognition, including a Curry Stone Design Prize (2017), and inclusion in the Egyptian National Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2016, 2018). Stryker has curated for DCAF in Cairo, Beirut Art Center, the Ramallah Municipality and the AIA in New York (where she held the position of Director of Programs).

Irene SunAssociate Partner, McKinsey & Company & Author, The Next Factory of the World

Irene Sun is an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where she leads projects on economic development and healthcare in Africa. An expert on Africa–China relations, Sun led the development of The Dance of the Lions & Dragons, McKinsey’s 2017 report that collected the largest-ever factbase on Chinese investment in Africa. She is the author of The Next Factory of the World, about Chinese manufacturing investment and the possibility of industrialisation in Africa.

Mpho Parks Tau President, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), & President, South African Local

Government and Association (SALGA)Mpho Parks Tau is the President of both the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and the South African Local Government Association (SALGA). He is the former Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg 2011–2016 and has headed various local government portfolios that include Development Planning, Transport, Environment, Economic Development and Finance. In 2017 he was the Co-Chair

of the United Nations Independent Panel to improve the effectiveness of the UN-Habitat.

Tau TavengwaCo-Founder and Editor, Cityscapes Magazine & Visiting Associate, LSE Cities

Tau Tavengwa is the co-founder and editor of Cityscapes Magazine, a publication on cities in Africa, Latin America and South Asia. He is a 2018 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He has worked as part of the African Centre for Cities since 2009.

Erion VeliajMayor of TiranaErion Veliaj is an Albanian politician, who is currently

serving as Mayor of Tirana. Between September 2013 and April 2015, Veliaj served as Albania’s Minister of Social Welfare and Youth. He has an MA in European Integration from the University of Sussex and has also worked with several international humanitarian organisations in the Americas, Eastern Africa, and Kosov.

Tsedeke Yihunie Woldu Founder, Flintstones Engineering, Addis AbabaTsdeke Yihune Woldu is

the Founder and CEO of Flintstone Engineering and Flintstone Homes with over 30 years of experience in civil engineering. Tsedeke also serves as a board member for the Construction Contractors Association of Ethiopia and Director of Habesha Cement. He holds an MSc in Construction Management from the University of Birmingham.

Belinda YuenProfessorial Fellow and Research Director, Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative

Cities, Singapore University of Technology and DesignDr Belinda Yuen is Professorial Fellow and Research Director with the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC), Singapore University of Technology and Design, where she leads the Lee Li Ming Programme in Ageing Urbanism. She was President, Singapore Institute of Planners (2005–08), and Vice-President, Commonwealth Association of Planners (South-east Asia) (2006–08; 2010–12; 2014–16).

Nyah Zebong Project Leader, African Property Tax Initiative, International Centre for Tax

and Development Nyah Zebong has worked for over 11 years with the Ministry of Finance of Cameroon on tax policy and administration issues. He has been a visiting lecturer of both Taxation Law and Project Finance. Nyah wrote his PhD on taxation of the extractive industries, focusing on tax anti-avoidance and transfer pricing. He is now the Project Leader for ICTD’s new African Property Tax Initiative (APTI).

Redeat Abate, Lecturer, Unity University, Addis AbabaJantirar Abay, Minister of Urban Development and Construction, Government of Ethiopia Nebila Abdulmelik, Photographer, Addis Ababa Mekonnen Abebe, Lecturer and President of Ethiopian Urban Planners Association, Addis Ababa Science and Technology UniversityEsayas Abebe, Head of Programmes, GIZ, Addis AbabaBrook Abebe, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityWondimu Abeje, Head, Centre for Regional and Local Development Studies, Addis Ababa UniversityGashaw Aberra, Transport Planner, ITDP, Addis AbabaIman Abubaker, Road Safety and Urban Mobility Project Coordinator, World Resources Institute (WRI), Addis AbabaAdeposi Adeogun, Researcher, Lagos Urban NetworkMohammed Adjei Sowah, Mayor of Accra, Ghana Yeraswork Admassie, Executive Director, Forum for Social Studies, Addis Ababa Emanuel Admassu, Founding Partner, AD-WO, & Assistant Professor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Bizualem Admasu, Bureau, Ministry of Urban Development and Construction, Addis AbabaBenjamin Agyenim - Boateng, Town Planner, Kumasi City CouncilArlette Akingeneye, Communications and Business Development Junior Associate, MASS Design Group, KigaliDeji Akinpelu, Co-Founder, Rethinking Cities Initiative, LagosAnteneh Aklilu, Journalist, Capital, Addis AbabaSharon Naomi Alcade Manthey, Junior Researcher, vhw Bundesverband für Wohnen und Stadtentwiocklung, Berlin Abebaw Alemayehu, Senior Urban Development Specialist, World Bank, Addis AbabaElias Yitbarek Alemayehu, Architect and Urban Planner, EiABC, Addis Ababa University Reem Alfahad, Research Associate, Middle East Centre, LSEAdam Ambaye, Architect, Adam & Associate Studio, Addis AbabaSisto Ocanda Andama, Cities Scholar and Private Consultant, Sub Sahara Solutions LLC, RockvilleJorgen Eskemose Andersen, Head of Department, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, CopenhagenNana-Yaw Andoh, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Rochester Institute of TechnologyMarc Angélil, Architect and Professor of Architecture and Design, ETH Zürich Albert Ankrah, Business Development Manager, Jospong Group of Companies, AccraBethlehem Anteneh, Gamification/Experience Designer, Goethe-Institut, Addis AbabaMichael Anthony, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Earth Analytics India Ltd, MumbaiThomas Aquilina, Urban Researcher, Adjaye Associates, London

Ben Arimah, Head, Flagship Reports Unit, UN-Habitat, NairobiAlastair Arnold, Head of Political Section, Department for International Development, Addis AbabaAnees Arnold, Founder, (Delft)LINK, Cape TownMehmet Cemil Arslan, Secretary General, Marmara Municipalities Union, IstanbulAraya Asfaw, Associate Professor, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityDagim Asfaw, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityWossen Woldekidan Ashebir, Chair Holder of Urban Design, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityElleni Ashebir, Cities and Urban Mobility Program Manager, WRI Africa, Addis Ababa Thomas Asher, Director, Convening and Scholarly Relations, Columbia World Projects, Columbia University, New YorkEtsub Assefa, Environmental Specialist, Addis Ababa City Resilient Project OfficeAbera Aurga Jimma, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityBethel Ayalew Zeleke, Architect and Assistant Lecturer, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityMariamawit Ayele Asfaw, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityHabtamu Ayicheh, Assistant Lecturer, Design, Landscape Architecture, Addis Ababa UniversityJoni Baboci, General Director of Planning and Urban Development, City of Tirana, Albania Mohamed A G Bakhit, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Khartoum, SudanCarolin Bansbach, Deputy Country Director, GIZ Ethiopia, Addis AbabaMeg Bartholomew, Associate Director, PwC, SydneyAriadne Baskin, Urban Clean Mobility Consultant, UN Environment, NairobiHeike Bauer, Senior Expert, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BonnJo Beall, Director Cultural Engagement, British Council & Professorial Research Fellow, LSESamson Kassahun Belachew, Professor of Urban Planning and Development, Ethiopian Civil Service University, Addis AbabaChristian Benimana, Principal and Managing Director, MASS Design Group & Director, African Design Centre, Kigali Jhono Bennett, Director, 1to1 - Agency of Engagement, JohannesburgBabajimi Benson, Representative, Ikorodu Federal Constituency, LagosTomá Berlanda, Director for the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town Ann Bernstein, Executive Director, Centre for Development and Enterprise, JohannesburgHelawi Sewnet Beshah, Head of International Relations, EiABC, Addis Ababa University, Addis AbabaTsega Beyene, EiABC, Addis Ababa University, Addis AbabaGautam Bhan, Lead, Academics and Research, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore Julia Black, Pro Director for Research, LSEPhilippe Andreas Bleuel, Master’s Student Architecture, ETH Zürich

Nadezhda Bobyleva, Architect and Guest Lecturer, Addis Ababa Science and Technology UniversityMichaela Boehm, Referee to the Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board, Menschen fuer Menschen Foundation, MunichAron Bohmann, Project Lead, Land der Ideen, BerlinAloysius Bongwa, Senior Expert Urban Finance / Technical Assistance Team Leader, GUMPP, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies - IHS Erasmus University, RotterdamMichael Brooke, Student in Urban Planning, University of Cape TownPeter Brown, Director, Ethiopia, British Council, Addis AbabaMira Buerger, Senior Strategist, SinnerSchrader, HamburgLucy Bullivant, Director, Lucy Bullivant & Associates, LondonRicky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies, LSE & Director, LSE Cities and Urban AgeJulia Burgi, Business Development Associate, MASS Design Group, KigaliRobert Cain, Master of City Planning Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CambridgeAlex Cameron, Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy, Addis AbabaRuth Canagarajah, Associate, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, NairobiAlexander Carius, Managing Director, Adelphi, BerlinAlex Carrasco, Coordination Attaché, Delegation of the EU to Ethiopia, Addis AbabaBarry Cassidy, Consultant, Barry Cassidy Planning and Development, Downingtown, PennsylvaniaJose Castillo, Principal a911, Mexico City Benedetta Castrioto, Consultant, Addis AbabaÖmer Çavuşoğlu, Senior Strategic Planner, Perkins+Will, LondonYeneneh Chanyalew, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityZegeye Cherenet, Assistant Professor and Head of Competence Center for Architecture and Design, EiABC, Addis Ababa University Yonatan Tadesse Chernet, Planner, Arada Subcity Urban Renewal Office, Addis AbabaYadeni Chimdessa, Architect, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityLionel Chobli, Deputy Mayor, City of Allada, BeninJose Chong, Programme Management Officer, UN-Habitat, NairobiChukwuemeka Vincent Chukwuemeka, PhD Researcher, KU Leuven, GhentMaria Cielecka, Urban Planner and Architect, UN-Habitat, RiyadhLiza Rose Cirolia, Researcher, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape TownJustin Coetzee, Founder, GoMetro and flxrides.com, Cape Town Jim Coleman, Director, Urban Economics, Oxford Policy Management, LondonJason Corburn, Professor, UC BerkeleyNuno Crisostomo, Emergency Specialist, UNICEF, KinshasaDiego Cuesy Edgar, MSc City and Design, LSEStephanie Czerny, Founder / Managing Director, DLD Media, MunichDawit Dagnew, Knowledge Management Advisor, GIZ, Addis Ababa

Elarji Dalal, Research Assistant, University of Liechtenstein, VaduzKalkidan Debela, Freelance Architect, Addis Ababa Serawit B Debele, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen/Addis AbabaJennifer Delasi Brock, Head of International Relations, Office of the Mayor, Accra Metropolitan Assembly Sascha Delz, Urban Researcher, Postdoc Researcher, Institute for Urban Design, Department of Architecture, ETH ZürichAddisalem Feleke Demessie, Architect and Urban Designer, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityEleni Demissie, Managing Director, Actuel Design PLC, Addis AbabaYared Dereje Negatu, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityTilahun Derib Asfaw, Assistant Professor, Addis Ababa UniversityLealem Berhanu Desta, Deputy Commissioner, Addis Ababa Planning CommissionBrookins Devanne Elizabeth, Researcher and Planner, International Growth Centre, New YorkMarco Di Nunzio, Lecturer in African Studies and Anthropology, University of BirminghamLeón Díaz-Bone, Urban Policy and Design Strategist, Mediaurban, BarcelonaEva Dick, Senior Researcher, German Development Institute, BonnKai Michael Dietrich, Founder and Project Manager, Urban Operators, HamburgYebichaye Dires, Lecturer, Ethiopian Civil Service University, Addis AbabaSalih Dogenci, Managing Director, Marmara Education and Organization Company, IstanbulPierre D’Souza, Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CambridgeGerhard Dust, CEO, Polycare, GummersbachJames Dzansi, Country Economist, International Growth Centre, AccraAlejandro Echeverri, Director, URBAM Center for urban and environmental studies, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín Anne Eilenberg, Urban Planner, UN-Habitat, RiyadhMahmoud El Burai, Director, Dubai Real Estate Institute, DubaiTimnit Eshetu, Director of Addis Ababa infrastructure coordination, and Building permit and regulation, Mayor’s OfficeAsya Abdulatif Essajee, Assistant Lecturer in Architectural Studies, University of Nairobi, NairobiLulu Estefanous, IT specialist, Excellence Development Partners Consulting, Addis AbabaAbel Estifanos, Lecturer and Researcher, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityAkrem Ezedin Abdurahim, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityBabatunde Fashola, Minister for Power, Housing and Works, Government of Nigeria Kristin Fedeler, PhD Candidate, University of EdinburghAmanuel Fegue, Student, Addis Ababa Science and Technology UniversityCyril Fegue, Researcher, University of Zurich, WalferdangeDereje Fekadu, Commissioner, Masterplan Office, Addis Ababa City Government

Nuno Ferreira Da Cruz, Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, LSE Cities Michael Fitsum, Urban planner, Ethiopian urban planners association, Addis AbabaTommaso Franzolini, Associate, Scott Brownrigg, LondonLucio Frigo, CEO, Materia, Tunis / MaputoJoachim Fritz, Head of Department Governance and Conflict, GIZ Germany Pablo Fuentenebro Alonso, Project Officer, UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development, MadridMoti Daba Fufa, Head of Urban Mission, EECMY, Addis AbabaDaba Fufa, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityTjark Gall, Urban Development and Sustainability Researcher, Urban Framework Issaka Garba Abdou, Head Governance Unit, African Union, Addis AbabaTom Gardner, Addis Ababa Correspondent, The Economist, London Ritu Garg, Senior Transport Planner, Arup, LondonKanchwodia Abebe Gashaw, Research Co-Investigator and Engineer, Science and Technology Information Center of Ethiopia, Addis AbabaAndrew Ihsaan Gasnolar, Legal and Policy Specialist, Aurecon, Cape TownTamrat Gebregiorgis, Journalist, Fortune Addis, Addis AbabaDawit Gebrehiwet, Graduate Urban and Regional Planner, Mekelle University, MekelleEphrem Gebremariam, Scientific Director, EiABC, Addis Ababa University, Addis AbabaBethelhem Gebremedhin, EiABC, Addis Ababa University, Addis AbabaMaheder Gebremedhin, Principal, Yema Architecture, host of Kebet eske Ketema, Addis Ababa Tewodros Makonnen Gebrewolde, Country Economist, International Growth Centre, Addis AbabaHeaven Gebreyohannes, Urban planner, EiABC, Addis Ababa University, Addis AbabaAnasimos Gelan, CEO, GreenKetema Landscaping S.C, Addis AbabaZelalem Getahun, Consultant, Excellence Development Partners Consulting, Addis AbabaTesfaye Getnet, Journalist, Capital, Addis AbabaAbnet Gezahegn, Architect and Urban Planner, Addis AbabaCharles Ghati, Architect, U Design Architects, NairobiStephanie Gil, Architect and Urban Planner, Airport of Munich, BerlinDarren Gill, Senior Consultant, Arup International Development, London Fasil Giorghis, Chair of Conservation of Urban and Architectural Heritage, EiABC, Addis Ababa University Wubet Girma, Deputy Country Director, British Council, Addis AbabaTom Goodfellow, Senior Lecturer, Sheffield UniversityPeter Griffiths, Managing Editor, LSE CitiesJason Grimes, British Embassy, Addis Ababa

Ron Gross, Head of Housing Unit, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel AvivMegan Groth, Assistant Editor, Shaping Cities in an Urban Age, LSE CitiesGabriela Aguinaga Gumuzio, Consultant, UN-Habitat, NairobiSimon Gusah, Lagos CRO, 100 Resilient Cities, LagosAstrid Haas, Senior Country Economist (Cities), Manager, Cities that Work, IGC Biruk Tamrat Hailemeskel, Urban Designer/ Planner, Development Partners/EiABC, Addis AbabaSimret Haileyesus, Colleague of the Chair of Urban Design, Mekelle UniversityEmnet Hailu, Student, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityRana Hajjar, Project Manager, Independent, BeirutSwastik Harish, Architect, IIHS, DelhiArif Hasan, Director, Urban Resource Centre, Karachi Armando Hashimito, Design and Research Director for Infonavit, Mexico CityRosie Havener, Urban Age Publication Co-ordinator, LSE CitiesCatarina Heeckt, Project Manager, LSE CitiesJ Vernon Henderson, School Professor of Economic Geography, LSEJosef Hermann, Energy Advisor, GIZ, Addis AbabaAnna Herrhausen, Executive Director, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft, BerlinTraudl Herrhausen, Frankfurt Brett Herron, Former Member of the Mayoral Committee: Transport and Urban Development, City of Cape TownCarla Camilla Hjort, Director, SPACE10, CopenhagenFabienne Hoelzel, Professor of Urban Design, ABK StuttgartUlrich Hoerning, Deputy Mayor of Leipzig, Germany Alcinda Honwana, Inter-Regional Adviser on Social Development Policy, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York Laurence Horstman, Executive MSc Programme Administrator, LSE CitiesZhengli Huang, Research Associate, Sheffield UniversityKhaled A Hussein, Chief, Forecasting Section, Macroeconomic Policy Division, UNECA, Addis AbabaOlusola Ikuforiji, Water Resources Management and Climate Change Expert, Abidjan Aneeque Javaid, Researcher, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, BerlinMarco Kamiya, Branch Coordinator, Urban Economy and Finance Branch, UN-Habitat, NairobiYolisa Kani, Head of Public Policy, Uber Southern Africa, Johannesburg Rubbina Karruna, Cities Adviser, UK Department for International Development, LondonGeci Karuri-Sebina, Associate, South African Cities Network, Johannesburg Meseret Kassahun, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Addis Ababa University, Addis AbabaSwabra Kassim, Graduate Architect, Mombasa County GovernmentBrenda Katwesigye, Founder and CEO, Wazi Vision, Kampala

Samet Keskin, Urban Policy Expert, Marmara Municipalities Union, IstanbulRebekka Keuss, Research Assistant Urbanization and Human Rights, HafenCity University, Hamburg Nabil Khalifa, Architect, Kirs Construction & Guaro Farms S.C., Addis AbabaAbdulhaleem Khelef, Architect, Design, Architectural Firm, Mombasa, KenyaSolomon Kidane, Deputy Mayor of Addis Ababa Shewit Emmanuel Kidane Mariam, Private Sector Development Adviser, DFID, Addis AbabaBisrat Kifle, Assitant Profesor, Ethiopian Civil Service University, Addis AbabaAnna Kirstgen, Senior Project Manager, Robert Bosch Foundation, StuttgartTeddy Kisembo, Student, Makerere University, KampalaJacqueline M Klopp, Research Scholar, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York Kubai Koigi, Designer, Aspera Design, NairobiChristopher Kost, Africa Program Director, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, NairobiSebastian Kriticos, Cities Economist, Cities that Work, IGC, LondonEzgi Kucuk, Urban Planning Coordinator, Marmara Municipalities Union, IstanbulRobert Kyukyu, Head of Strategy Management and Business, Kampala Capital City AuthorityJurgen Laartz, CEO, Panta Rhei GmbH, ParetzSomik V Lall, Global Lead for Regional Development Solutions, World Bank, Washington D.C. Patrick Lamson-Hall, Research Scholar, Urban Expansion Program, NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management, New York Anke Langhardt, Project Manager africaXchanger, Land der Ideen, BerlinSophie Laplace, Architect urban designer, Arte Charpentier Architecture, Paris Dieter Läpple, Emeritus Professor, HafenCity University, Hamburg Fiona Latabo, Architect and Urban Designer, UDesign Architects, Kampala/NairobiLadi Lawanson, Honourable Commissioner for Transportation, Lagos State GovernmentTaibat Lawanson, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, University of Lagos Nebeyou Legasse, Socioeconomic specialist, Addis Ababa City Resilient Project OfficeAboma Lemessa, Student, Addis Ababa UniversityTsedale Lemma, Journalist, Addis StandardAndres Lepik, Professor, Technische Universitat MunchenLior Levin, Assistant to Mayor, The City of RahatSharon Lewis Roux, Technical Advisor, Government Technical Advisory Centre, PretoriaRebecca Liebschutz, Deputy Director, SPOUTS of Water, KampalaChristine Liehr, Development Manager, Thomson Foundation, BerlinIain Low, Academic and Editor, University of Cape Town, Cape TownFelicitas Ludwig, Project Manager, DLD Media, Munich

Hallelujah Lulie Wondimu, Researcher, Amani Africa, Addis AbabaMark Lutter, Executive Director, Center for Innovative Governance Research, Washington D.C.Mwila Lwando, Founder, Ecocity Development, LusakaEtta Madete, Architect and Part-Time Lecturer, Morphosis Ltd and University of NairobiBogosi Mahene, Structural Design and Urban Planning, LSEAbdellah Mallek, Founder, Sylabs, Algiers Alfredo Manfredini Boehm, Consultant, World Bank, Addis AbabaElisabeth Mansfeld, Head of Programme Cities, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft, Berlin Deriba Matias, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityGuglielmo Mattioli, Freelance Journalist, Former video Journalist for NYTimes, New York Julia Mauser, Architect, Aenki.net, Addis AbabaKate Meagher, Associate Professor in Development Studies, LSEBilen Mebratu Gebremariam, Architecture student, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityRahul Mehrotra, Principal, RMA Architects, Mumbai and Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Meseret Mekonnen, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityNalisha Men, Builder Development Manager, Orkidstudio, NairobiValeria B Mensah, Technical Advisor, Office of the Executive Secretary, UNECA, Addis AbabaAdrian Mertens, Associate, McKinsey & Company, CologneZayd Minty, Researcher in Cultural Policy, Independent, JohannesburgShirega Minuye, Researcher, Meskay consultancy services, Addis AbabaPhilipp Misselwitz, Chair, International Urbanism and Design, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of urbanism, architecture, projects of Greater Paris, economic development and attractiveness, France Oliyad Mitiku, Architect and Urban Designer, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityOliyad Mitiku, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityWondimu Moges, Ethiopian Civil Service University, Addis AbabaEsrael Woldeeyesus Mohammed, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Compassion International, Addis AbabaYonas Mohammed, Lecturer, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityRory Moody, Cities Adviser, UK Department for International Development, LondonSusanna Moorehead, H M Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the African Union, British Embassy, Addis AbabaHelen Morrissey, Transport Consultant, Pegasys Strategy and Development, Cape TownMax Muenz, Project Manager, Global Perspectives Initiative, 10119 BerlinBenyam Muhe, Architect and Urbanist, Benyam Ali Architects, Addis AbabaDennis Mukuba, Architect, Nairobi

Shimeles Mulugeta Kebede, Assistant Country Manager, SMEC International, Addis AbabaEtenesh Mulushewa, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityPatrick Musoke, Deputy Director, Kampala Capital City AuthorityJoseph Muturi, National coordinator, Muungano wa Wanavijiji, Kenyan Slum Dwellers Federation and Coordinator, East and West Africa, SDI, Nairobi Luc Nadal, Technical Director, ITDP, New YorkGifti Nadi, British Council, Addis AbabaOmar Nagati, Founding Partner, CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research)Ekram Nasray, Architect and Master’s student of Landscape Architecture, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityTagel Nemomsa, Vice Manager, Exodus Consulting Architects and Engineers Plc, Addis AbabaZelalem Ngre Delele, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityCaio Noronha, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Brazil in KinshasaGeoffrey Nyakiongora, Student, University of NairobiBikhado D Ofungi, Investor, Dero Capital, Kampala Liz Ogbu, Founder and Principal, Studio O, OaklandPaul Okunlola, National Programme Officer, UN-Habitat, Abuja FCTBabafenwa Omoniyi, Head, Commercial Property Brokerage- NigeriaHyungmin Pai, Professor of Architecture, University of SeoulAlula Pankhurst, Young Lives Ethiopia Country Director, PDRC, Addis AbabaAnokhi Parikh, Associate Partner, Dalberg, JohannesburgSusan Parnell, Global Challenges Chair, University of Bristol & Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town Mathew Parr, Country Coordinator IWaSP Uganda, GIZ, KampalaAlexandra Gomes, Research Officer, LSE CitiesEdgar Pieterse, Director, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town & Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, Berlin Natalie Pruett, Urban Stratagist, Flint, MichiganDamyanti Radheshwar, Architect+Urban Planner and Strategist, D Radheshwar Architect + Urban Planner and Strategist, Shirley, NY Caroline Raes, Program Manager, 100 Resilient Cities, New YorkNirilanto Rafilibera, International Business Development Manager, Surbana Jurong Consultants Pte Ltd, SingaporeNavin Rai, Joint Chief Town Planner, Urban Development and Housing Department, Govt. of Sikkim, IndiaElnazir Ramadan, Muscat, OmanAdinarayanane Ramamurthy, Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Arba Minch University, EthiopiaEmanuela Recchi, President, Recchi Engineering, TorinoMatteo Robiglio, Full Professor in Architecture and Urban Design, Future Urban Legacy Lab, Politecnico di TorinoPhilipp Rode, Co-Director of the Executive MSc in Cities, LSE & Executive Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age

Sam Rosmarin, Chief Strategy Officer, Komari Beverage, Addis AbabaCharlie Rosser, Photographer and filmmaker, Independent, London Richard Rubens, Psychoanalyst, William Alanson White Institute, New YorkKecia Rust, Executive Director and founder, Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa, Johannesburg Bianca Ryseck, PhD Candidate, University of Cape Town and the Transport and Urban Development Authority for Cape TownAli Saichi, Intern, Urbanization Section, UNECA, Addis AbabaAntonio Sampaio, Research Associate for Security and Development, The International Institute for Strategic Studies, LondonSeble Samuel, Consultant, GIZ - Sustainable Land Management Programme, Addis AbabaFrancisco Sanin, Professor, School of Architecture, Syracuse University, New YorkJulia Sattler, Director, Goethe-Institut, Addis AbabaSamih Sawiris, Chairman of Orascom Development Holding GA, Switzerland and Cairo, Egypt Lindsay Sawyer, Leverhulme Research Fellow, University of SheffieldJessica Seddon, Director, Integrated Urban Strategy, WRI, Washington D.C.Surella Segu, Architect, El Cielo Architects, Mexico CityYared Seid, Country Economist, International Growth Centre, Addis AbabaAser Seifu, Media, Film and Media School, Addis AbabaJennifer Semakula-Musisi, Executive Director, Kampala Capital City Authority, Uganda Burcuhan Sener, International Cooperation Coordinator, Marmara Municipalities Union, IstanbulAlemayehu Seyoum, Country Director, IGC Ethiopia, Addis AbabaRahel Shawl, Founder and Managing Director, Raas Architects, Addis Ababa Zhongyi Shi, Architectural Assistant, Eric Parry Architects, LondonBetelehem Demissie Shibeshi, Spatial Plan Preparation Director at Addis Ababa City Government Plan Commission Miheret Shimelis, Student, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityAzka Shoaib, Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CambridgeDaniel Sileshi Legesse, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityYondela Silimela, MD, Morfosis Advisory, JohannesburgNicholas Simwichi, Graduate Architect, Trioscape Architects, NairobiSandip Kumar Singh, General Secretary, Welkin Society and Guru Karshni Mahavidyalay, VaranasiLiz Sitati, Graduate Architect attendee, University of NairobiSarah Sodzi Ziddah, Managing Director, Pro Poor Housing, AccraOladimeji Sofowora, Chief of Staff to Hon. Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Government of Nigeria Workagegn Solomon, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityAzeb Solomon, Lecturer, Ethiopian Civil Service University, Addis Ababa

Vera Songwe, Under Secretary General, UN and Executive Secretary, UNECA, Addis Ababa Yael Spector, Architect, Bezalel academy of Art and Design, Tel AvivCristina Steingraber, Publisher / Architecture Historian, ArchiTangle, BerlinBeth Stryker, Founding Partner, CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research)Irene Sun, Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company, Washington D.C. Samuel Tabory, Research Manager, Sustainable Healthy Cities Network, University of Minnesota, MinneapolisKalkidan Aberra Taddesse, Sr. Advocacy and Campaign Specialist, Addis AbabaMedhanit Tadesse, Architecture student, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityTadesse Alemu Tadesseasissay, Guaro Farms, Addis AbabaMpho Parks Tau, President, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), & President, South African Local Government and Association (SALGA), Johannesburg Tau Tavengwa, Co-Founder and Editor, Cityscapes Magazine, Cape Town & Visiting Associate, LSE Cities Brook Tefera, Architect, BIGAR Builders and Developers PLC, Addis Ababa Abebaw Sentie Tegegne, Director, Addis Ababa City Planning CommissionBerhanu Assefa Tegegne, Partnerships Team Leder, UNOPS, Addis AbabaYishak Teklegiorgis, Architect, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityNahom Teklu, Architect, NArcHome Architecture, Addis AbabaTigist Kassahun Temesgen, Architect and Urbanist, UN-Habitat, Addis AbabaAbraha Tesfay, College of Urban Development and Engineering, Ethiopian Civil Service University, Addis AbabaSamson Tesfaye, Senior Consultant, Speyside Group, Addis AbabaSara Tesfaye Woldemichael, Architect, Schools of Grenoble and Lyon, Addis AbabaGirmaye Teshome, Environmental Specialist, Addis Ababa Resilient Project OfficeBezawit Teshome, Architect, lecturer and student, Wolkite University, Addis AbabaSalem Gulilat Tilahun, Architect and student, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityAgazi Tiumelissan, Researcher, Independent, Addis AbabaTeshome Tefera Tola, Lecturer, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityEfrat Tolkowsky, CEO, Interdisciplinary Center Israel, Tel AvivOni Tolullah, Urban Epidemiologist and Medical Doctor, University of Cambridge, London & Cape TownStephanie Touveneau, SPACE10, CopenhagenFitsumberhan Tsegaye Beyene, 100 Resilient Cities, Mayor’s Office of Addis Ababa City GovernmentTakele Uma Banti, Mayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Natalia Uribe, Consultant - Masterplanning and Urban Development, Independent, LondonErion Veliaj, Mayor of Tirana, Albania Hilmar von Lojewski, Councillor, German Association of Cities, BerlinHendrik von Schlieben, Tunisia Country Programme intern, Cities Alliance, Brussels

Brita Wagener, Ambassador, German Embassy Addis AbabaAngelika Wasielke, Team Leader, GIZ, BrusselsWalta Wege, Consultant, Addis AbabaUte Weiland, Executive Director, Land der Ideen, BerlinAmity Weiss, CEO, Komari Beverage, Addis Ababa Wekesa George Simiyu Wekesa, Architect, Orkidstudio, NairobiFrank Wernecke, Founder and CEO, Dronemaster, BerlinLaureen Machuma Wesonga, Policy and Advocacy Manager, Kenya Red Cross Society, NairobiStephen Willacy, Chief City Architect, Aarhus City CouncilJamiee Williams, Project Lead, SPACE10, CopenhagenJonathan Wilson, Co-Founder, Delft Link, Durban Ndenyele Wilson, Lecturer, Technical University of Mombasa, MombasaMichaela Winter Taylor, Senior Associate, Global Leader for Urban Strategies and Design, Gensler, LondonMintesnot Woldeamanuel, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Addis Ababa University / California State University, Northridge, Addis AbabaBisrat Kifle Woldeyessus, Researcher, EiABC, Addis Ababa University, Addis AbabaSelam Wondim, CEO, Grohydro SC, Addis AbabaJen Wood, AD-WO, Providence Bettina Woodward, Director, Open City Architects, Cape TownMekonen Wube Ermed, Town planner, Addis Ababa Housing Development Project OfficeSamantha Yates, Livelihoods and Humanitarian Team Leader, DFID, Addis AbabaEdlam Abera Yemeru, Chief, Urbanization Section, Social Development Policy Division, UNECA, Addis AbabaGetnet Yeserah Mekonnen, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityRobel Yeshiwas, Urban Planner, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityTsedeke Yihunie Woldu, Founder, Flintstones Engineering, Addis AbabaNebyou Yonas, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityYixin Yu, Consultant, International Trade Centre, Addis AbabaBelinda Yuen, Professorial Fellow and Research Director, Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and DesignSandra Zawedde, Chair, Polling Officer, UNECA, Addis AbabaNyah Zebong, Project Leader, African Property Tax Initiative, International Centre for Tax and Development, Yaoundé, Cameroon Paul Zimmerman, CEO, Designing Hong Kong, Hong KongMartina Zimpel, Senior Urban Planner, AS+P Architects, Planners, Frankfurt

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Advisory BoardRichard Sennett (Chair), Centennial Professor London School of Economics and Political Science and University Professor of the Humanities, New York UniversityDavid Adjaye, Principal Architect, Adjaye AssociatesAlejandro Aravena, Executive Director, ELEMENTALAmanda Burden, Commissioner, New York City Department of City Planning (2001-13) José Castillo, Principal, Arquitectura 911 SC Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-Habitat (2010-17)Job Cohen, Mayor of Amsterdam 2001-10Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor of Mexico City (2006-12)Terry Hill, Chair of Board of Trustees, Ove Arup FoundationJulian Le Grand, London School of Economics and Political ScienceEnrique Peñalosa, Mayor, City of Bogotá, 1998-2001 and 2015-currentEdgar Pieterse, Director, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape TownRichard Rogers, Founder, Rogers Stirk Harbour + PartnersSaskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University David Satterthwaite, Senior Fellow, Human Settlements Group, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)Deyan Sudjic, Director, Design Museum, London Alejandro Zaera Polo, Director, Alejandro Zaera Polo Architects

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Additional adviceFasil Giorghis, Chair of Conservation of Urban & Architectural Heritage, EiABC, Addis Ababa University Addis Mebratu, Addis Mebratu Consulting Architects and EngineersAlula Pankhurst, Young Lives Ethiopia Country Director, PDRCAmanuel Teshome Kebede, Architect, ATK Architects Bisrat Kifle Woldeyessus, Researcher, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityDawit Benti, Chair of Architectural Design & Building Science, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityElias Yitbarek Alemayehu, Architect and Associate Professor, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityEphrem Gebremariam, Scientific Director, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityMaheder Gebremedhin, Kebetiskaketema, Yema Architecture, Radio Host, Addis Ababa Meheret Ayenew, Researcher, Forum for Social Studies Meskerem Tamiru, Director, Association of Ethiopian ArchitectsMinase Aytenfsu, Partner, Bigar ArchitectsRahel Shawl, Founder and Managing Director, RAAS Architect Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher, Professor of Economics, Addis Ababa UniversityYeraswork Admassie, Director, Forum for Social Studies and Professor, Addis Ababa University Zegeye Cherenet, Assistant Professor, EiABC, Addis Ababa UniversityMillion Samuel Gebre, Architect, Geretta Consult

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