Oumar Sylla
Oumar Sylla is Director of the Regional Office for Africa at UN-Habitat. Oumar has more than 20 years of academic and practical experience in land, natural resources, conflict resolution, urban development, regional cooperation and partnership. Prior being appointed as Acting Director for the Regional Office for Africa, Oumar was coordinator of the Urban Legislation, Land […]
Antoni Bielewicz
Antoni Bielewicz is country programme director for Poland at the European Climate Foundation (ECF), one of the largest climate philanthropies in Europe. His role includes support for civil society organizations in projects addressing the most important environmental and socioeconomic challenges (incl. energy poverty). Before joining ECF nine years ago Antoni worked in media high-tech and […]
Georgi Georgiev
Georgi Georgiev is professor and head of the Department of Architecture at New Bulgarian University, as well as chartered member of the UK Chartered Institute of Housing and a member of Working Group „Responsible Architecture“, Architects’ Council of Europe. His specializations are: Architectural design and urban planning; Housing policy and finance, housing legislation and institutions; […]
Laura Colini
Dr. Habil. in Urban, Spatial and Environmental Planning ICAR/21, she works on social exclusion and cities, analysing multiscalar public in Europe, with a focus on housing and migration. She has worked as a researcher at Unifi (IT), MIT (USA), Bauhaus University (DE), IRS Leibnitz Berlin/Erkner (DE) and as an urban policy expert in Europe since […]
Steffen Wetzstein
Dr Steffen Wetzstein is a critical Social Scientist, Political Economist and Expert Consultant with wide-ranging research, teaching, policy and consultancy interests relating to urban transformations; especially in the areas of affordable housing, housing policies and strategic planning; liveability and quality of life; economic development and corporate social responsibility; governance and regulation as well as globalization […]
Daniel Inkoom
Professor at the Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), and Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Institute of Planners (FGIP), and sits on the International Advisory Board of the Southern Urbanism Masters […]
Boyan Zahariev
Boyan Zahariev is program director at the Open Society Institute in Sofia (OSI-Sofia) since 2007. He holds master degrees in South Asian studies and economics and a PhD in sociology with a focus on urban studies from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. Boyan has more than 20 years of experience as an expert, project manager […]
Roberto Patrascoiu
Roberto Patrascoiu is CEO at Habitat for Humanity Romania. He is an executive & management professional; bringing experience from successful careers that vary from business consultant to entrepreneur to INGO manager and senior executive. I have found a “home” in working for the vulnerable.
Karlis Goldstein
Karlis Goldstein is a Member of Cabinet with the Commissioner for Energy Ms Kadri Simson. He is responsible for energy end-use, including efficiency, and storage. With prior expertise from a national administration on internal market, transport and energy in Brussels, he has been involved in EU policy for over a decade.
Magdalena Ruszkowska-Cieślak
Magdalena Ruszkowska-Cieślak is responsible for developing strategic program lines and partnerships for affordable housing in Poland at Habitat for Humanity Poland, for 5 last years – leader of the Organisation. Passionate for developing social innovation and scalable solutions that bring real improvements in people’s life. Expert in the field of housing and social exclusion issues, […]
Jaana Nevalainen
Dr Jaana Nevalainen is a Senior Ministerial Adviser at the Ministry of the Environment of Finland. Jaana is an urban and human geographer with a background in political and environmental geography. During her university career, she was involved in teaching, education planning, Master’s thesis supervision and evaluation. She also was working as a researcher and […]
Ajay Suri
Ajay Suri is Senior Adviser at the Inclusive Development National Institute of Urban Affairs, in India. He is an economist and a development expert with long standing experience in formulating strategies and managing people-centred development programmes across various states and cities in India, south Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal and Maldives), south-east Asia (Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines and […]