Braimah Farouk
Braimah R Farouk is the Ghanain Network Lead for Slum Dwellers’ International, an organization that supports residents of informal settlements to plan and conduct community mapping and enumeration activities, then leverage these data to engage with governments and negotiate policy solutions that meet local needs and priorities. He is also the founder and Executive Director […]
Anu Sarnet
Anu Sarnet is Head of International Relations and Projects at the Estonian Union of Co-operative Housing Associations – a housing federation working across Estonia to support cooperative housing and renewal of housing stock through the implementation of knowledge-based activities like training, consulting, advisory services, research, national and international cooperation projects. With more than 15 years […]
Jonathan Hursh
Jonathan Hursh is the Founding Partner of Utopia, an urban entrepreneurship group for emergent cities. Utopia is building the platform for urban entrepreneurs in emergent cities by establishing a network of CITYLABS (urbantech startup studios) across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Jonathan is an advisory board member of Harvard’s Master of Design Engineering program, an […]
David Ireland
David Ireland is Chief Executive of World Habitat a UK based international housing charity that helps scale up solutions to the world’s housing problems; from slum upgrading to post-disaster housing and homelessness. It operates the World Habitat Awards, the world’s leading international housing award in partnership with UN-Habitat, and runs programmes aimed at ending street […]
Alexa Botár
Alexa Botár is Climate & Energy program coordinator since 2005. Alexa does advocacy work and awareness-raising on Hungarian and EU climate and energy policies, strategies and measures, energy transformation and related EU Funds.
Quentin Galland
Quentin Galland is Public Affairs Director at Knauf Insulation. Quentin has an MA in Political Science (UCL, BE) and an Executive Master’s (EM) in Communication and European Affairs (IHECS, BE). Prior to joining Knauf Insulation, Quentin worked for several European trade associations (operating in the fields of agriculture, chemicals, railways) and public affairs and strategic […]
João Gonçalves
João Gonçalves coordinates Housing Europe’s participation in partnerships and projects with the aim to, on one hand, influence innovation policy at the EU level and, on the other hand, provide input and facilitate an exchange for the social, cooperative and public housing sector on its social and technical innovation path. João also leads the delivery […]
Holger Wallbaum
Holger Wallbaum is a Full Professor in Sustainable building and Vice-Dean for Knowledge Transfer and Stakeholder Relations at the Department och Architecture and Civil Engineering at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Holger’s research is related to ecological and economic life cycle assessment of construction materials, buildings and infrastructures, sustainability assessment tools for […]
Mark van Loon
Mark van Loon is Senior Vice President Sustainability & Innovation at Wienberberger AG, a leading building materials company listed on the Vienna stock exchange for 150 years. It has grown into a company which employs more than 17.000 persons in 30 countries with a total sales of 3,466 billion Euro. It has a strong local […]
Iva Marčetić
Iva Marčetić holds a Master degree in Architecture and urban planning from the School of Architecture, University of Zagreb. She is a longtime member of the Right to the city organization from Zagreb where she has for years worked with local grassroots initiatives and has actively fought for democratization of urban planning in the city […]
Leonardo Ebner
Leonardo Ebner is Policy Adviser on employment and public services at the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), the oldest and broadest association representing European local and regional governments. Previously he worked at the European Commission and completed his studies in philosophy and political science.
Dirk Lönnecker
Dirk Lönnecker has been a member of the Board of Management of Berliner Bau- und Wohnungsgenossenschaft von 1892 eG since 1998 and since May 2018 has been a founding member of the Board of Management of the first European cooperative LiM Living in Metropolises SCE mbH. Internationally, Dirk Lönnecker belonged to the board EFL – […]