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Prof. Dr. Kosta MathéyKosta Mathéy is head of department at PAR – Planning and Building Overseas, Faculty of Architecture, Darmstadt University. He previously taught at the universities of Havanna (Cuba), Sta. Marta (Colombia), Porto Alegre (Brazil), Ife (Nigeria), Karlsruhe, Weimar and Kassel (all Germany). As a housing and settlement expert on behalf of GTZ, KfW, EU, ILO, UN-HABITAT and NGOs he worked in numerous countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America over the last 20 years. Mathéy is co-founder and editor of TRIALOG journal and author of several books on housing and settlement issues in Southern Hemisphere. |
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Dr. Harry StorchHarry Storch is a senior researcher at the Department of Environmental Planning of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus. Since 2006 he has been a partner of the research consortium ‘Integrative Urban and Environmental Planning for Adaptation Ho Chi Minh City to Climate Change - Sustainable Strategies for Climate- Oriented Urban Structures, Energy-Efficient Housing Typologies and Comprehensive Environmental Protection for Megacities of Tomorrow’ which is financed as part of the research program “Sustainable Development of the Megacities of Tomorrow - Energy- and climate-efficient structures in urban growth centres” by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). |
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Prof. Dr. Karl KluegelKarl Kluegel, PhD. studied Economics and Social Sciences at University of Augsburg (PhD), Michigan State University (MBA), San Francisco State University (BSc) and University of Goettingen. He was nominated Professor of Business and Economics at Zurich University of Applied Sciences after previously having taught at TU Vienna University of Technology, University of St. Gallen, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) Beijing, China. At the Tongji University Shanghai he became Founding Vice Director of the Sino-German College of Graduate Studies and acted as director of the Sino-German Forum in Shanghai, Numerous consultancy contracts i.e. with the Shanghai City Government, the Swiss Mail System, the Swiss Confederation’s Innovation Promotion Agency, the Central Bank of China, the Chinese oil and natural gas conglomerate, the Lansing Chamber of Commerce (USA), and many others more. |
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Dr. Rod BurgessRod Burgess, PhD. Urban geographer, Senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. Previously taught at Delft University of Technology, John Hopkins University, Clark University, Essex University, Polytechnic of Central London, Architectural Association London and University College London. Main topics: urban geography, globalization, strategic planning, compact cities, self-help housing. Regional focus: Latin America. |
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Prof. Cor DijkgraafCor Dijkgraaf, MSc. architect planner. Since November 2003 co-director of ‘Urban Solutions’ consultants in Rotterdam. For 19 years he was director of the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) in Rotterdam. Project and advisory assignments worldwide. Specialist in Capacity Building programs, institution building, housing, urban management, inner city revitalisation and urban heritage conservation. Teaching at the Master degree courses in IHS Rotterdam, University of Southern California., Delaware University, and Lund University (Sweden). |
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Prof. Dr. habil. Brigitte GeisselBrigitte Geissel is professor of political sciences at the University of Technology in Darmstadt and is preparing for accepting a chair at the renowned Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. Previously she was researcher and lecturer at the Abo-Akademi, Finnland; the Science Center for Social Research in Berlin; TU Berlin, FU Berlin; the Wilhelms Unviverswity in Münster (Germany); the Martin-Luther-University in Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Past research activities addressed topic of political innovation, gender rights and struggles and direct democracy. |
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Dr. Dirk HeinrichsDirk Heinrichs is urban researcher and urban planner. He is based at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany. His Research focus interests on the governance in megaurban regions, particular interest social-spatial segregation, land use and land markets. He is currently scientific coordinator of the ‘Risk Habitat Megacity’ research initiative with focus on cities in Latin America. |
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Dr. Phó Đức TùngDr. Tùng studied architecture, cultural economics, banking, philosophy and sinology in Berlin and works as urban planner and landscape architect. 2001-2008 he was dean of the department for urban forestry and landscape architecture at the Vietnamese University for forestry, close to Hanoi. |
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Dr. Gulelat Kebede, PhD.Dr. Gulelat Kebede received his PhD in Economics from the Academy of Social Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria. He also holds a MSc. in Environmental Economics from the University of London and a B.A. from Addis Ababa University. His professional work experience extends for over twenty years of which about fifteen years as international expert. Since 1996 he is working for UN-HABITAT at the headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, primarily in the field of training and capacity building. In that capacity, Mr. Kebede prepared and/or coordinated the development of a number of training tools and curricula, developed and managed global capacity building programs and courses, provided technical support to projects and activities in all major regions of the world, designed and delivered training workshops at country, regional and international levels including teaching at universities and academic institutions; facilitated partnerships with over 60 national training and academic institutions and multi lateral agencies including ILO and the WB, and supported member states in developing national policies and strategies for capacity building for local governments, NGOs and CBOs. His accumulated substantive professional experience includes, among others, the areas of governance, environment and local economic development. |
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Prof. Dr. Ali S. HuzayyinAli S. Huzayyin is Prof. of Transport and Traffic Engineering & Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University and Executive Manager of the Transportation Program (TP), DRTPC of Cairo University. He is Vice President of CODATU (cooperation for urban mobility in developing world) organizing conferences/training in developing countries. He is member of the Steering Committee, WCTRS (World Conference on Transport Research Society), organizing comprehensive World conferences on all transport fields. He conducted many research/consulting projects with DRTPC-TP solely or in cooperation with international firms. He is Chair/member of national transport committees/agencies in Egypt and holder of the State Award in Engineering Sciences. |
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Prof. Dr. Jochen MonstadtDr.-Ing. Jochen Monstadt studied Landscape Design at the University of Technology in Berlin before embanking on his PhD dissertation on liberalizatin and privatization of the energy market at the same university. He was senior research fellow at the City Institute at York University, Toronto, Kanada and at the Keston Institute for Infrastructure and Public Finance, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA before joining Darmstadt University of Technlogy as a Professor at the faculties of Architectura and of Civil Engineering. For serveal years, Jochen Monstadt has been anlysing the transition of urban infrastructures in Berlin, Toronto and L.A. and its impact on urban environmental governance and planning. Previously he has conducted and coordinated research on the transition of energy, water and wastewater systems, river basin management, infrastructure planning, and regional/urban governance and planning at different research institutes: the Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology (CH), the Leibniz-Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning, Erkner (D), and the Institute for Environmental Management and Planning at Berlin University of Technology (D). |
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M.A. Michael MattinglyMichael Mattingly, MA. Is an Urban Planner who, after 13 years practising urban planning with governments and consultants in the USA, Uganda, Kenya, and the UK, Mr Mattingly has been engaged since 1977 in teaching, research and consultancy on urban land, urban planning, and urban management. This has included capacity building, program assessment assignments and research in more than a dozen countries of Africa, plus many others in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Recently, studies of rural-urban links and the peri-urban interface have been prominent in his activities, both as a researcher and as advisor to a DFID research fund. |
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Prof. Clara Irazábal, PhD.Clara Irazábal is Assistant Professor of Urban and International Planning in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University, New York City. In her research, she explores the interaction of culture, politics, and placemaking. She primarily focuses on Latin American cities and Latino communities in the US. Irazábal has worked as consultant, researcher, and/or professor in Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Germany, Spain, and the US; and has lectured in many other countries. She is the author of Urban Governance and City Making in the Americas: Curitiba and Portland and the editor of Ordinary Places, Extraordinary Events: Citizenship, Democracy, and Public Space in Latin America. She has published academic articles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. |
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Prof. Ignasi Pérez ArnalIgnasi Pérez Arnal is a professor and architect by Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, UPC (1992) and in the MSC of The Big Scale: Projects in the new environments (ETSAB). He is a Senior Visiting Professor at Facoltà di Architettura di Alghero, and Director of Erasmus Mundus Master in Sustainable Emergency Architecture (UIC) and of Master Degree of Design and Architecture (ELISAVA). |
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Prof. Dr. Jacqueline PolvoraJacqueline B. Pólvora, PhD, is a Brazilian anthropologist working on urban exclusion. She obtained her university education in Porto Alegre (PUCRS, UFRGS) and her Ph.D. in the U.S. from the University of Texas at Austin, where she specialized in African Diaspora Studies. She was an Assistant Professor at PUCRS in Brazil, and also taught in the U.S., and in universities in Germany, Spain and France for the Mundus Urbano Program. Ms. Pólvora conducted a large ethnographic research within Afro-Brazilian lower class communities, focusing on the disputes between “formal” and “informal” city. She also collaborates with Afro-Brazilian communities who struggle for their rights to the city. Focusing on the conflicts appeared on the space that are intertwined with layers of tensions marked by race, gender and class - among other socio-cultural standpoints - she continues to conduct research upon this topic. She is also interested in anthropology of development in Southern Hemisphere. |
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Dipl. Arg. Dev. Studies Ronaldo RamirezRonaldo Ramirez, is Honorary Research fellow at the Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London, University of London. He is former Director of Master Courses on Development Studies and on International Housing Studies at the DPU. Teaching, research and consultancy in Latin America, Africa and Asia on urban sociology, development studies, housing studies, urban poverty, community participation. Research projects include: “Self-help Housing Provision in Latin America: the Case of Venezuela”; “Urban Poverty Alleviation Through Environmental Upgrading in Rio de Janeiro: the ‘Favela Bairro’ Program” and “Factors Affecting Success or Failure of Community Initiatives. Experiences from Havana, Cuba”. Numerous international publications and conference papers. |
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Prof. Dr. Shanti PillaiShanti Pillai holds a PhD with distinction in performance studies from New York University and a MA in Asian Studies from University of California in Berkeley. She did her B.A. with Honors in Anthropology and International Relations at Stanford University C.A. She is Professor at the Department of Global Studies of Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York and was Resident Director, Sarah Lawrence College Semester in Cuba, Havana, Cuba. She also teaches at the Program in Anthropology, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Quito, Ecuador. the Department of Undergraduate Drama of New York University, the Touro College, New York and University of New Hampshire's Geo Communities Semester in India, Pondicherry, India. She is also a New York State Council for the Humanities Speaker offering lectures on India's arts. She has been performing and lecturing throughout New York and in Latin America. Shanti performed as a modern dancer and actress with the noted company, el Frente de Danza Independiente, in Ecuador from 1991-1994. As a consultant, Ms Pillai worked with the Cross-Cultural Ramanyana Project," New York; was Program Coordinator at Institute for South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA. and was Research Assistant, Institute for Development Anthropology, Binghamton, NY. She currently lives in New York, Havana and Pondicherry, India. |
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Prof. Julian WékelProf. Julian Wékel, architect, teaches urban and regional development at Darmstadt University. He studied architecture in Vienna and Berlin, followed by a postgraduate study in urban management in Manchester. Previously building director of the cities of Hamburg-Harburg, Frankfurt, Hannover and Berlin. |
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Prof. Dr. Eike AlbrechtDr. Albrecht is head of the junior partner chair “civil law and public law with special references to the environment and law of Europe” at Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus. |
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Prof. Dr.-eng. habil. Guenter BuschProfessor Busch is head of the department of “Solid Waste Management” at Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus. |
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Prof. Dr. -Ing. Dr. h.c. (NMU Dnepropetrovsk) Michael SchmidtProfessor Michael Schmidt is head of the Department of Environmental Planning at Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus. Prof. Schmidt teaches and does research in the field of environmental history and on land use planning under conditions of global warming. Since 1997, he is consultant of the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. At BTU Cottbus, he initiated the international study programs "Environmental and Resource Management" and "World Heritage Studies". In 2002, he received the "Award for Excellence in International University Cooperation" by the German State Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and in 2005 the Dr. h.c. of the National Mining University, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Prof. Schmidt teaches and does research in the field of environmental history and on land use planning under conditions of global warming. At the moment he is also director of the BMBF-Project “Integrative Urban and Environmental Planning for Adaptation of Ho Chi Minh City to Climate Change”. |
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lutz KatzschnerDr. Katzschner is Professor for Climatology at University of Kassel, Faculty of Architecture, Department Urban and Landscape Planning, Germany. Since 2010 he is member of the BMBF-Project “Integrative Urban and Environmental Planning for Adaptation of Ho Chi Minh City to Climate Change”. |
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Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Uwe GruenewaldProfessor Gruenewald is head of the department of “Hydrology and Water Resources Management” at Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus. His research fields are coupled management of ground and surface water ressources considering water quantity and quality, water and matter investigations in small river and lake catchment areas, specific questions of water management in river catchment areas and specific problems of the influence of active and decreasing brown coal mining on the regional water management. He is member of the German Research Association (DFG) expert staff water research, the scientific Advisory Board of the German Committee for Disaster Reduction(DKKV), the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Weather Service(DWD) and chairman of the Specialist Group "Hydrology and Water Management" of the German Association for Water, Waste Water and Waste (DWA). |
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PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Nguyễn Xuân ThịnhDr. Nguyễn Xuân Thịnh is scientist at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development in Dresden, Germany. He holds a doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Analysis and Computer Algebra and has done his habilitation (Facultas Docendi) in Geodesy and Geoinformatics. His research topics are geoinformatics, GIS-science, multivariate statistics, modelling and simulation, multiple criteria decision analysis, cellular automata, urban studies (urban form, urban ecology, urban green pattern) and eco-efficiency of settlement structures. Since 2008 he is member of the BMBF-Project “Integrative Urban and Environmental Planning for Adaptation of Ho Chi Minh City to Climate Change”. |
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Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hans-Juergen VoigtProfessor Voigt is head of the department of “Environmental Geology” at Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus. His research fields are groundwater management, groundwater protection, geology of contaminated sites and landfills, post-mining geology and remediation, modeling of flow and transport processes and hydrochemistry and geochemistry. |
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Prof. Dr. habil. Gerhard WieglebProfessor Wiegleb is dean of the faculty of “Environmental Sciences and Process Engineering” and head of the department of “General Ecology” at Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus. He does research and teaches in the fields of general ecology, biodiversity, and concept development in post-mining landscapes and near-natural open landscapes. |
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