URBAN AGE CONFERENCE DEVELOPING URBAN FUTURES ADDIS ABABA 29–30 NOVEMBER 2018

16.15–18.00 DELIVERING HOUSING FOR ALL 14.00–15.45 FINANCING URBAN FUTURES DAY 1 THURSDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2018 Co-chairs: Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age Co-chairs: Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age and and Tau Tavengwa, Co-Founder and Editor, Cityscapes Magazine, Astrid Haas, Senior Country Economist (Cities), Cities that Work, Cape Town & Visiting Associate, LSE Cities IGC, Kampala 08.30–09.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE Framing Presentations (10 min each) Keynotes (15 min each) 09.30–09.45 WELCOME Gautam Bhan, Lead, Academics and Research, Indian Institute for THE POLITICS OF URBAN FINANCE Takele Uma Banti, Mayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Human Settlements, Bangalore Vera Songwe, Under Secretary General, UN & Executive Secretary, Anna Herrhausen, Executive Director, Alfred Herrhausen Jose Castillo, Principal, a911, Mexico City UNECA, Addis Ababa Gesellschaft, Berlin Kecia Rust, Executive Director and Founder, Centre for Affordable Babatunde Fashola, Minister for Power, Housing and Works, Julia Black, Pro Director for Research, London School of Housing Finance in Africa, Johannesburg Government of Nigeria Economics (LSE) Jennifer Semakula-Musisi, Executive Director, Kampala Capital City Presentations (5 min each) Authority, Uganda 09.45–10.00 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW MASS HOUSING MODELS Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies, LSE & Director, LSE Cities Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Elias Yitbarek Alemayehu, Architect and Presentations (10 min each) and Urban Age Urban Planner, EIABC, Addis Ababa University INVESTING IN CITIES Singapore: Belinda Yuen, Professorial Fellow and Research Director, Samih Sawiris, Chairman of Orascom Development Holding GA, 10.00–11.15 AFRICA’S CORE CHALLENGES Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Switzerland and Cairo, Egypt Co-chairs: Joachim Fritz, Head of Department Governance and Conflict, Technology and Design Tsedeke Yihunie Woldu, Founder, Flintstones Engineering, Addis Ababa Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Karachi, Pakistan: Arif Hasan, Director, Urban Resource Centre, Nyah Zebong, Project Leader, African Property Tax Initiative, Germany and Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age Karachi International Centre for Tax and Development, Yaoundé, Cameroon COMMUNITY-LED INITIATIVES Panel Discussion (30 min) Introductory Keynotes (15 min each) Joseph Muturi, National Co-ordinator, Kenyan Slum Dwellers Federation & Co-ordinator, East and West Africa, SDI GOVERNING URBAN CHANGE 15.45–16.15 COFFEE Mpho Parks Tau, President, UCLG, Barcelona & Mayor of Johannesburg Taibat Lawanson, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, University of Lagos (2011-16) 16.15–17.45 THE INCLUSIVE CITY DEFINING AFRICAN URBANISM Panel Discussion (30 min) Co-chairs: Jo Beall, Director Cultural Engagement, British Council & Edgar Pieterse, Director, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Open Discussion (20 min) Professorial Research Fellow, LSE and Gautam Bhan, Lead, Academics Town & Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow, Robert Bosch Academy, Berlin and Research, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore

AFRICA’S ECONOMIC POTENTIAL Presentations (10 min each) Somik V Lall, Global Lead for Regional Development Solutions, World DESIGNING INCLUSIVITY Bank, Washington D.C. DAY 2 FRIDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2018 Rahul Mehrotra, Principal, RMA Architects, Mumbai & Professor CHALLENGES FOR YOUNG AFRICA of Urban Design and Planning, Graduate School of Design, Alcinda Honwana, Inter-Regional Adviser on Social Development 08.30–09.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE Harvard University Policy, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Omar Nagati, Founding Partner, CLUSTER (Cairo (UNDESA) 09.30–11.00 TRANSPORT TRANSITIONS & TECHNOLOGY Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research) Co-chairs: Elleni Ashebir, Cities and Urban Mobility Program Manager, DELIVERING INCLUSIVITY 11.15–11.45 COFFEE WRI Africa, Addis Ababa and Philipp Rode, Co-Director of the Mohammed Adjei Sowah, Mayor of Accra, Ghana Executive MSc in Cities, LSE & Executive Director, LSE Cities and Ulrich Hoerning, Deputy Mayor of Leipzig, Germany 11.45–13.15 URBAN GROWTH, PRODUCTIVITY & INNOVATION Urban Age Erion Veliaj, Mayor of Tirana, Albania Co-chairs: Geci Karuri-Sebina, Associate, South African Cities Network, Presentations (5 min each) Panel Discussion (20 min) Johannesburg and Edgar Pieterse, Director, African Centre for Cities, Yeraswork Admassie, Executive Director, Forum for Social Studies, University of Cape Town & Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow, Robert TRANSIT FUTURES AND INFRASTRUCTURE Addis Ababa; Alcinda Honwana, Inter-Regional Adviser on Social Bosch Academy, Berlin Ladi Lawanson, Honourable Commissioner for Transportation, Lagos Development Policy, United Nations Department of Economic and Social State Government Framing Presentation (15 min) Affairs, New York; Beth Stryker, Founding Partner, CLUSTER (Cairo Solomon Kidane, Deputy Mayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research) J Vernon Henderson, School Professor of Economic Geography, LSE POPULAR TRANSIT 2.0 Panel Discussion (45 min) Open Discussion (20 min) Jacqueline M Klopp, Research Scholar, Center for Sustainable Urban Emanuel Admassu, Founding Partner, AD-WO & Assistant Professor, Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York Rhode Island School of Design; Brenda Katwesigye, Founder and CEO, 17.45–18.00 CONCLUDING REMARKS Justin Coetzee, Founder, GoMetro and flxrides.com, Cape Town Wazi Vision, Kampala; Abdellah Mallek, Founder, Sylabs, Algiers; Kate Kate Meagher, Associate Professor in Development Studies, LSE Anna Herrhausen, Executive Director, Alfred Herrhausen Meagher, Associate Professor in Development Studies, LSE; Philipp Gesellschaft, Berlin Misselwitz, Chair, International Urbanism and Design, Habitat Unit, TU VIRTUAL PLATFORMS AND REAL CITIES Berlin; Bikhado D Ofungi, Investor, Dero Capital, Kampala; Irene Sun, Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris, France Author and Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company, Washington D.C. Yolisa Kani, Head of Public Policy, Uber Southern Africa, Johannesburg Open Discussion (30 min) Panel Discussions (55 min) URBANAGE.LSECITIES.NET

13.15–14.15 LUNCH 11.00–11.30 COFFEE

14.15–15.45 PLANNING FUNDAMENTALS 11.30–13.00 ETHIOPIA’S URBAN TRANSFORMATION Co-chairs: Susan Parnell, Global Challenges Chair, University of Bristol Co-chairs: Fasil Giorghis, Chair of Conservation of Urban and & Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town and Rahul Mehrotra, Architectural Heritage, EiABC, Addis Ababa University and Philipp Principal, RMA Architects, Mumbai and Professor of Urban Design and Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age Planning, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Presentations (10 min each) Presentations (7 min each) THE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE COMPARING URBAN DEVELOPMENT MODELS Jantirar Abay, Minister for Urban Development and Construction, Paris, France: Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris, France Government of Ethiopia Medellín, Colombia: Alejandro Echeverri, Director, URBAM Center SHAPING ADDIS ABABA’S FUTURE for urban and environmental studies, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín Takele Uma Banti, Mayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Seoul, South Korea: Hyungmin Pai, Professor of Architecture, University of Seoul Panel Discussion (40 min) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Fasil Giorghis, Chair of Conservation of Marc Angelil, Architect and Professor of Architecture & Design, ETH Urban and Architectural Heritage, EiABC, Addis Ababa University Zürich; Zegeye Cherenet, Assistant Professor, EiABC, Addis Ababa Kigali, Rwanda: Christian Benimana, Principal and Managing University; Betelehem Demissie Shibeshi, Spatial Plan Preparation Director, MASS Design Group & Director, African Design Director, Addis Ababa City Government Plan Commission; Maheder Centre, Kigali Gebremedhin, Principal, Yema Architecture and Radio Host, Kebet Eske Panel Discussion (30 min) Ketema, Addis Ababa; Dieter Läpple, Emeritus Professor, HafenCity University, Hamburg; Patrick Lamson-Hall, Research Scholar, Urban Open Discussion (25 min) Expansion Program, NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management, New York; Rahel Shawl, Founder and Managing Director, RAAS Architect, 15.45–16.15 COFFEE Addis Ababa Open Discussion (30 min)

13.00–14.00 LUNCH Jantirar Abay on informal mass housing in Rio de Department professor, specialising in urban, environmental and planning Arif Hasan Currently she chairs the Metrobus Board Patrick Lamson-Hall published widely on social networks, Minister of Urban Janeiro, and Cities of Change: Addis Ababa, financial services regulation and the projects. He is a Loeb Fellow from Director, Urban Resource and serves on the Advisory Board of Africa Research Scholar, Urban hybrid governance, youth unemployment, Development and on urban transformation in developing regulation of risk. She has advised many Harvard GSD and was given the Obayashi Centre, Karachi Teen Geeks, an NPO teaching South Expansion Program, NYU taxation and digital inclusion. Recent Construction, Government countries. Mirroring Effects: Tales of governmental and consumer bodies in Prize in 2016. Arif Hasan is a Pakistani African children computer skills, coding Marron Institute of Urban publications include co-edited Special of Ethiopia Territory, will be published in 2019. the UK and overseas and in December architect, writer and activist. He has been and robotics. Management Forum ‘Making the Right Connections: Jantirar Yigzaw Abay is an Ethiopian 2018 she joins the board of the Bank Babatunde Fashola associated with the Orangi Pilot Project Patrick Lamson-Hall is a researcher and Globalization, Economic Inclusion and politician who is currently the Minister of Elleni Ashebir of England’s Prudential Regulation Minister for Power, Housing since 1981 and is the Founder Chair of the Geci Karuri-Sebina urban planner. He is a co-author of the African Workers,’ Journal of Development Urban Development and Construction. Cities and Urban Mobility Authority. and Works, Government Urban Resource Centre, Karachi. He is also Associate, South African Cities Atlas of Urban Expansion 2016 edition, Studies 52(4), 2016. Previously he has served as North Wollo Program Manager, WRI Africa of Nigeria a founding member of the Asian Collation Network, Johannesburg and an advocate for a form-based and Zone Deputy Administrator; Head of Elleni Ashebir is Cities Ricky Burdett Babatunde Raji Fashola is a Nigerian for Housing Rights and was the Chair of Geci is a Johannesburg-based metropolitan definition of cities. He is Rahul Mehrotra Urban Works and Development; Deputy and Urban Mobility Program Manager, Professor of Urban Studies, politician who is currently the Federal the Government’s task force on Urban scholar-practitioner who mainly works Project Co-ordinator of the Green Climate Principal, RMA Architects, Head of Amhara Bureau of Industry Ross Center for Sustainable Cities LSE & Director, Urban Age Minister of Power, Works and Housing. Development. His pro-poor activism has on urban planning and governance issues. Fund program, Climate Smart Cities: Mumbai & Professor of Urban and Urban Development; and Head of World Resource Institute, Africa. She and LSE Cities He was Lagos State Governor for two led to considerable awareness and changes She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow Grenada; Co-ordinator of the Ethiopia Design and Planning, Graduate Amhara Road Transport Bureau. Born in has rich experience in Ethiopia’s urban Ricky Burdett is an urbanist who runs four-year terms from May 2007 to May in policies and projects in Pakistan. with the Wits School of Governance and Urban Expansion Initiative; and Co- School of Design, Harvard University Wollo, Amhara Region, he studied Urban development and has worked in national, a teaching and research centre on cities 2015. Born in Lagos, Fashola studied National Organiser of the Civic Tech Founder of the India Urban Expansion Rahul Mehrotra is a practising architect Planning and Architecture, Urban Design regional and city-level government. She at the London School of Economics and Law at the University of Benin and, after J Vernon Henderson Innovation Network in South Africa. Her Observatory. and educator. He works in Mumbai and Development. has worked closely with local communities Political Science (LSE). He acts as adviser going through Nigerian Law School, was School Professor of Economic experience spans a range of development and teaches at the Graduate School of and vulnerable groups to help ensure to national and city governments, private called to the Nigerian bar as a solicitor and Geography, LSE foresight, policy, innovation and practice Dieter Läpple Design at Harvard University, where he is Mohammed Adjei Sowah socially equitable, environmentally companies and philanthropic agencies. advocate of the Supreme Court. Vernon Henderson is School topics, particularly relating to cities and Emeritus Professor, HafenCity Professor of Urban Design and Planning. Mayor of Accra, Ghana sustainable and economically viable He sits on the Mayor of London’s Cultural Professor of Economic Geography at the local systems. University, Hamburg His practice, RMA Architects, founded Mayor Adjei Sowah is social development. Leadership Board and was Chief Adviser Joachim Fritz LSE. His research focuses on China and Dieter Läpple is Professor in 1990, has executed a range of projects entrepreneur with over on Architecture and Urbanism for the Head of Department parts of sub-Saharan Africa, sponsored by Brenda Katwesigye Emeritus of International Urban Studies across India. Mehrotra has written, co- 23 years’ experience in local economic Takele Uma Banti London 2012 Olympics, a member of the Governance and Conflict, GIZ the EU, World Bank and DFID. He studies Founder and CEO, at the HafenCity University, Hamburg, authored and edited a vast repertoire development and small business Mayor of Addis Ababa, UK Government’s Independent Airports Joachim Fritz is Head of the the evolution of urban systems and the Wazi Vision Germany. For many years he directed of books on Mumbai, its urban history, development. He chairs the Greater Accra Ethiopia Commission and architectural adviser to GIZ’s Sector Division Governance and built environment, in the face of changing Brenda Katwesigye is founder the Institute for Urban Economics at the its historic buildings, public spaces and Public Transport Executive (GAPTE), and Takele Banti is Mayor of the Mayor of London from 2001 to 2006. Conflict, Eschborn, Germany. His areas of institutions and structural transformation. and CEO of Wazi Vision, a company University of Technology, Hamburg. He is planning processes. is an executive member on the Technical Addis Ababa. He has served as mayor for expertise include public administration, He is co-editor of the Journal of Urban incorporated in Uganda that builds a member of the Scientific Advisory Board Advisory Board of the landmark coastal two Oromia regional state towns, Sebeta Jose Castillo decentralisation, intergovernmental Economics and the Handbook of Regional eyewear and construction material from of the ‘Future Cities Laboratory’ of the Philipp Misselwitz redevelopment initiative, Marine Drive and Holeta, and was Manager for Sululta Principal a911, Mexico City relations, public finances, peace and and Urban Economics and serves on a recycled plastic. Brenda is an alumnus of Singapore-ETH Centre and Co-Initiator of Chair, International Urbanism Project. Mayor Adjei Sowah is a Vice Chair Municipal Administration. Previously, Jose Castillo is a practising security, as well as violence prevention and number of boards. Vodafone’s FLANE programme, a 2018 ‘NesTown’ – an urban development project and Design, Habitat Unit, (Africa) on the Steering Committee of C40 he served as head of Oromia Transport architect and urban planner urban development. His 20-year career Westerwelle Foundation fellow, a 2016 in North Ethiopia. TU Berlin Cities Climate Leadership Group. authority and General Manager of Oromia in Mexico City and a Visiting Professor comprises senior programme manager Anna Herrhausen Mandela Washington Fellow and has Architect and urban planner educated Urban Land sector. He has been awarded at Harvard University’s Graduate School positions in several long-term projects in Executive Director, Alfred served on the Regional Advisory Board Ladi Lawanson at Cambridge University and the Yeraswork Admassie diverse prizes for his prosperous city of Design. Alongside Saidee Springall he Africa and Latin America. Fritz holds a Herrhausen Gesellschaft of the Young African Leaders Initiative Honourable Commissioner Architectural Association London. PhD Executive Director, Forum for initiative, good governance and exemplary founded a911, an independent practice Diploma in Administrative Sciences from Anna Herrhausen is (YALI) and the Board of the STARTS Prize for transportation, Lagos State in 2009. Since 2013, Chair of Habitat Unit Social Studies leadership. based in Mexico City. Their work includes the University of Constance. the Executive Director of the Alfred of the Ars Electronica. Government at Technical University Berlin. Research Yeraswork Admassie is award-winning social housing projects, Herrhausen Gesellschaft. She holds a BA in Ladi Lawanson is Honourable and practice relate to user-driven and Executive Director of the Forum for Social Jo Beall cultural facilities, infrastructure and large- Maheder Gebremedhin Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Solomon Kidane Commissioner for transportation, Lagos process-oriented planning, participation Studies, and taught Sociology at Addis Director Cultural Engagement, scale masterplans. Castillo is member Principal, Yema Architecture, Oxford University, an MA in International Deputy Mayor of Addis Ababa State, Nigeria. He holds a Bachelor and co-production in transformation-to- Ababa University until June 2018. He was British Council & Professorial of the advisory board of LSE Cities and host of Kebet eske Ketema, Affairs from Columbia University and Solomon Kidane is the of Business Administration from the sustainability processes and urbanisation a member of the Addis Ababa Master Research Fellow, LSE Urban Age. Addis Ababa a PhD in Political Science from Freie Economic Sector Deputy University of Liberia and Master of impact of translocal dynamics such as Plan Project advisory think-tank and still Jo Beall is a Professorial Research Fellow Maheder Gebremedhin is the principal Universitaet Berlin. Her professional Mayor and Head of Transport Bureau of International Law and Diplomacy from migration or globalised production. serves on the Technical Committee of the at the LSE and on the Executive Board of Zegeye Cherenet architect of Yema Architecture and the experience amounts to, in total, 15 years Addis Ababa City Government. He was the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Until his Partner at Berlin-based consultancy Urban Addis Ababa Rivers and Riversides the British Council. Professor Beall has Assistant Professor, EiABC, producer/presenter of the weekly radio in management consulting as well as in the head of Addis Ababa City Road and appointment in February 2018, he was Catalyst GmbH. Development Project. conducted research in Africa and Asia Addis Ababa University show ‘Kebet Eske Ketema’ since December corporate responsibility. Transport Bureau and before that, the a management consultant and business on urban development and governance Zegeye Cherenet is an 2007. He is the Director of The Urban General Manager of Addis Ababa City development executive engaged in the Jean-Louis Missika Emanuel Admassu as well as cities in situations of conflict architect, Assistant Professor and Head Center. He has served as a think-tank Ulrich Hoerning Transport Programs Management Office. implementation of the Nigerian–German Deputy Mayor of Paris Founding Partner, AD-WO and state fragility. She is a Fellow of the of Competence Center for Architecture group member for Addis Ababa Planning Deputy Mayor of Leipzig, Energy partnership. in charge of urbanism, & Assistant Professor, RISD Academy of Social Sciences and was and Design in the Ethiopian Institute commission and has been a jury member Germany Jacqueline M Klopp architecture, projects of Greater Emanuel Admassu is an recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Architecture, Building Construction of many local and international design Ulrich Hoerning is Deputy Research Scholar, Center Taibat Lawanson Paris, economic development architect from Addis Ababa, founding by the Open University. and City Development (EiABC) at Addis competitions. Mayor for General Services in the City for Sustainable Urban Associate Professor of Urban and attractiveness, France partner of AD-WO together with Jen Ababa University (AAU). He is also Head of Leipzig, Germany. He is responsible Development, Earth Institute, Planning, University of Lagos, Jean-Louis Missika is Deputy Mayor Wood, and Assistant Professor at the Christian Benimana of the Emerging Cities Lab (ECL)–Addis Fasil Giorghis for modernisation of core administrative Columbia University Nigeria of Paris and was Co-Director of Mayor Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Principal and Managing Ababa and runs a consulting firm, OADUS Chair of Conservation of processes. Previously Hoerning worked Jacqueline Klopp is a Research Scholar Taibat Lawanson is Associate Professor of Anne Hidalgo’s team during the2014 Paris He has previously taught at Columbia Director, MASS Design Group (office for architecture, design and urban Urban and Architectural as an economist at the World Bank in at the Center for Sustainable Urban Urban Planning, and Acting Director of municipal elections. He is a sociologist University (GSAPP) and worked with & Director, African Design studies), located in Addis Ababa. Heritage, EiABC, Washington DC and as strategy officer at Development at Columbia University. She the Centre for Housing and Sustainable specialising in media sociology and has practices in Atlanta and New York City. Centre, Kigali Addis Ababa University the Federal Ministry of Finance in Berlin. teaches in the Sustainable Development Development at the University of Lagos, continued his teaching alongside a career Admassu has recently been examining the Christian Benimana joined MASS Design Justin Coetzee Fasil Giorghis is Associate Professor Hoerning has studied at the University of program, and her research focuses on the Nigeria, where she leads the Pro-poor in politics and consultancy. His political constructed identities of urban markets in Group as a Global Health Corps Design Founder, GoMetro and of Architecture and Chair Holder Tübingen, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques intersection of sustainable transport, land development research cluster. Her career began in 2008 when he was elected East Africa. Fellow in 2010. Today he works as one flxrides.com of Conservation of Urban and (Paris) and Harvard Kennedy School. use, accountability, data and technology. research focuses on urban informality, councillor of Paris and was appointed of the firm’s Principals and Managing Justin Coetzee is the founder Architectural Heritage at EIABC, Addis Klopp is a co-founder of Digital Matatus, environmental justice and pro-poor Deputy Mayor by Bertrand Delanoë. He Elias Yitbarek Alemayehu Directors, and is Director of the of GoMetro, one of the world’s leading Ababa University. His design work in Alcinda Honwana a consortium that mapped out and created development in Lagos. She is interested is responsible for the Reinventing Paris Architect and Urban Planner, African Design Centre. He received his firms in urban mobility analytics and his architectural practice focuses on Inter-Regional Adviser on open data for bus routes in Nairobi, in how formal and informal systems can initiative that is implementing major EIABC, Addis Ababa architecture degree from Tongji University data collection in developing markets, conservation of historic structures and Social Development Policy, Kenya, the Digital Cairo project and synthesise in African urban contexts. projects across Greater Paris. University in Shanghai, China and serves as secretary especially with informal transport design of public and private buildings, United Nations Department of the new open collaborative platform Elias Yitbarek Alemayehu is Assistant general of the East Africa Institute of services, and headquartered in Cape Town, where he combines local materials, Economic and Social Affairs DigitalTransport4Africa.org. Abdellah Mallek Joseph Muturi Professor at EiABC, Addis Ababa Architects. South Africa. He is also the founder of indigenous knowledge and environmental Alcinda Honwana is Inter-Regional Founder, Sylabs, Algiers National Co-ordinator, University. He is the founder of EiABC’s flxrides.com, a flexible mobility platform concerns in contemporary design. Adviser on social development policy at Somik V Lall Abdellah Mallek is the Muungano wa Wanavijiji, Housing Chair and its Masters programme Gautam Bhan that enables a Demand-Responsive Transit the United Nations. She is also Visiting Global Lead for Regional founder of Sylabs, a tech and Kenyan Slum Dwellers in Housing and Sustainable Development. Lead, Academics and Research, (DRT) technology platform enabling Astrid Haas Professor of International Development Development Solutions, entrepreneurship hub in Algiers. He works Federation & Co-ordinator, East and He is the co-editor and author of the book Indian Institute for Human cities, corporates and transport operators Senior Country Economist at the Open University, where she held World Bank on empowering young Algerians to start West Africa, SDI The Transformation of Addis Ababa: Settlements, Bangalore to provide efficient and shared on-demand (Cities), Manager, Cities that a Chair in International Development. Somik V Lall is the World Bank’s Global their own businesses, or gain new skills. In Joseph Muturi is a social activist and leader A Multiform African City (2018). He was Gautam Bhan is Lead, Academics and transport services rationalising private Work, IGC Honwana developed extensive research Lead on Territorial Development Solutions three years, Sylabs has helped tens of small of Muungano Wa Wanavijiji, the national the Research Director of EiABC and Research at the Indian Institute for Human vehicle use and fixed-route bus services. Astrid is currently a Senior Country on youth transitions, social movements and its Lead Economist for Urban businesses start or grow their activities, federation of slum dwellers in Kenya. the President of the Association of Settlements, Bangalore. He teaches and Economist and Manager of the Cities and youth politics in Africa. Her latest Development. He is a recognised expert on and gathered a community of thousands Muturi has been extensively involved Ethiopian Architects. writes on issues of urban housing, poverty Alejandro Echeverri that Work Initiative, working with the books: Youth and Revolution in Tunisia development policy related to urban and people sharing the same passion for tech, in government and city-led projects and inequality. He is most recently the Director, URBAM Center for International Growth Centre across (2013) and The Time of Youth: Work, Social territorial competitiveness, agglomeration digital and entrepreneurship. Abdellah that affect urban poor communities in Marc Angélil author of In the Public’s Interest: urban and environmental Africa, Asia and Latin America. Her Change and Politics in Africa (2012). and clusters, and infrastructure, with over was listed in Forbes Africa 30 under 30 Kenya, working with donor agencies and Architect and Professor of Evictions, Citizenship and Inequality studies, Universidad research specialises in policy issues around 20 years’ global experience, most notably and Choiseul. academia to help build strong relationships Architecture and Design, in Millennial Delhi. EAFIT, Medellín municipal finance. In 2016, she was Yolisa Kani in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. between such programmes and the ETH Zürich Alejandro believes in the ethical nominated by the Nelson Mandela School Head of Public Policy, Uber Kate Meagher residents for whom they are intended. Marc Angélil is Professor at the Julia Black responsibility of designers to contribute of Public Governance, University of Cape Southern Africa Associate Professor in Muturi sits on SDI’s international Department of Architecture of ETH Pro Director for Research, LSE towards a better society. He is Co-Founder Town as one of Africa’s Young Leaders. Yolisa Kani is a qualified Development Studies, LSE management committee and council, and Zurich. His research focuses on social and Professor Julia Black FBA is and Director of URBAM, the Center for transport planner with a special focus Kate Meagher is an Associate is part of SDI’s global advocacy team. spatial developments of large metropolitan the Pro Director for Research Urban and Environmental Studies, at on public transport planning and Professor in Development Studies at regions worldwide. He is the author of at the LSE, and from 2016–17 served EAFIT University in Medellín, Colombia. operations. She spent over 15 years in the the London School of Economics and several books, including Cidade de Deus!, as LSE’s Interim Director. She is a Law His experience combines architectural, government sector working for the City of Political Science. She specialises in Johannesburg and the City of Ekurhuleni. African informal economies, and has Omar Nagati Philipp Rode Betelehem Demissie of the United Nations Independent Redeat Abate, Lecturer, Unity University, Ben Arimah, Head, Flagship Reports Unit, Nadezhda Bobyleva, Architect and Elarji Dalal, Research Assistant, University Founding Partner, CLUSTER Co-Director of the Executive Shibeshi Panel to improve the effectiveness of the Addis Ababa UN-Habitat, Nairobi Guest Lecturer, Addis Ababa Science and of Liechtenstein, Vaduz (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, MSc in Cities, LSE & Spatial Plan Preparation UN-Habitat. Jantirar Abay, Minister of Urban Alastair Arnold, Head of Political Technology University Kalkidan Debela, Freelance Architect, Training and Environmental Executive Director, Director, Addis Ababa City Development and Construction, Section, Department for International Michaela Boehm, Referee to the Board Addis Ababa Research) LSE Cities and Urban Age Government Plan Commission Tau Tavengwa Government of Ethiopia Development, Addis Ababa of Directors and the Supervisory Board, Serawit B Debele, Postdoctoral Research Omar Nagati is a practising architect Philipp Rode is Executive Director of LSE Betelehem Demissie Shibeshi is the Spatial Co-Founder and Editor, Nebila Abdulmelik, Photographer, Anees Arnold, Founder, (Delft)LINK, Menschen fuer Menschen Foundation, Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the and urban planner, and Co-Founder Cities and Co-Director of the Executive Plan Preparation Director at Addis Ababa Cityscapes Magazine & Addis Ababa Cape Town Munich study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, of CLUSTER, an urban design and MSc in Cities at the London School of City Government Plan Commission. She Visiting Associate, LSE Cities Mekonnen Abebe, Lecturer and President Mehmet Cemil Arslan, Secretary General, Aron Bohmann, Project Lead, Land der Göttingen/Addis Ababa research platform in downtown Cairo. Economics and Political Science. He has received an architect-planner degree from Tau Tavengwa is the co-founder and editor Ideen, Berlin He is currently a Visiting Professor at the been directing interdisciplinary projects Addis Ababa University and an MSc from of Cityscapes Magazine, a publication on of Ethiopian Urban Planners Association, Marmara Municipalities Union, Istanbul Jennifer Delasi Brock, Head of University of Sheffield, UK. Nagati is co- comprising urban governance, transport, KU Leuven in Belgium. She began her 15- cities in Africa, Latin America and South Addis Ababa Science and Technology Araya Asfaw, Associate Professor, EiABC, Aloysius Bongwa, Senior Expert Urban International Relations, Office of the author with Beth Stryker of Archiving the city planning and urban design at the LSE year career as a junior planner for towns Asia. He is a 2018 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University Addis Ababa University Finance / Technical Assistance Team Mayor, Accra Metropolitan Assembly City in Flux (2013), Street Vendors and since 2003 and is a member in Ethiopia and moved on to more expert University’s Graduate School of Design. Esayas Abebe, Head of Programmes, GIZ, Dagim Asfaw, EiABC, Addis Ababa Leader, GUMPP, Institute for Housing and Sascha Delz, Urban Researcher, Postdoc the Contestation of Public Space (2017) of the Board of Directors of the Institute roles in Addis’s recently enacted 10th He has worked as part of the African Addis Ababa University Urban Development Studies - IHS Erasmus Researcher, Institute for Urban Design, University, Rotterdam and Creative Cities: Reframing Downtown for Transportation and Development master plan and engagements with UN- Centre for Cities since 2009. Brook Abebe, EiABC, Addis Ababa Wossen Woldekidan Ashebir, Chair Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich Cairo (2016). Policy (ITDP). Habitat in Somaliland (2005–07). University Holder of Urban Design, EiABC, Michael Brooke, Student in Urban Addisalem Feleke Demessie, Architect Erion Veliaj Wondimu Abeje, Head, Centre for Addis Ababa University Planning, University of Cape Town and Urban Designer, EiABC, Addis Ababa Bikhado D Ofungi Kecia Rust Vera Songwe Mayor of Tirana Regional and Local Development Studies, Elleni Ashebir, Cities and Urban Mobility Peter Brown, Director, Ethiopia, British University Investor, Dero Capital Executive Director and Under Secretary General, UN Erion Veliaj is an Albanian Addis Ababa University Program Manager, WRI Africa, Council, Addis Ababa Eleni Demissie, Managing Director, Bikhado D Ofungi is the Founder, Centre for Affordable & Executive Secretary, UNECA politician, who is currently Gashaw Aberra, Transport Planner, ITDP, Addis Ababa Mira Buerger, Senior Strategist, Actuel Design PLC, Addis Ababa founder of Dero LLC, an Housing Finance in Africa Vera Songwe is Executive serving as Mayor of Tirana. Between Addis Ababa SinnerSchrader, Hamburg Yared Dereje Negatu, EiABC, Addis investment company with interests in the (CAHF) Secretary of the Economic Commission September 2013 and April 2015, Veliaj Thomas Asher,Director, Convening and Iman Abubaker, Road Safety and Urban Scholarly Relations, Columbia World Lucy Bullivant, Director, Lucy Bullivant & Ababa University financial and renewable energy sectors in Kecia Rust is the Executive Director and for Africa. Prior to joining the ECA, she served as Albania’s Minister of Social Associates, London Africa. He is a member of the Government founder of the Centre for Affordable was Regional Director of the International Welfare and Youth. He has an MA in Mobility Project Coordinator, World Projects, Columbia University, New York Tilahun Derib Asfaw, Assistant Professor, of Uganda’s Public Private Partnership Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF). She Finance Corporation, covering West and European Integration from the University Resources Institute (WRI), Addis Ababa Etsub Assefa, Environmental Specialist, Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies, Addis Ababa University (PPP) Committee. He has served as East is a housing policy specialist and has Central Africa. In addition, she continues of Sussex and has also worked with Adeposi Adeogun, Researcher, Lagos Addis Ababa City Resilient Project Office LSE & Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age Lealem Berhanu Desta, Deputy Africa Director for Blue Financial Services, worked with both public-and private- to serve as a non-resident Senior Fellow several international humanitarian Urban Network Abera Aurga Jimma, EiABC, Addis Julia Burgi, Business Development Commissioner, Addis Ababa Planning a pan-African microfinance business, sector practitioners in promoting access at the Brookings Institution’s Africa organisations in the Americas, Eastern Mohammed Adjei Sowah, Mayor of Ababa University Associate, MASS Design Group, Kigali Commission and was also an advisor to the Uganda to affordable housing and housing finance Growth Initiative. She is also a member Africa, and Kosov. Accra, Ghana Bethel Ayalew Zeleke, Architect and Robert Cain, Master of City Planning Brookins Devanne Elizabeth, Researcher Retirement Benefits Retirement Authority in Africa for the past 20 years. From of the African Union institutional reform Yeraswork Admassie, Executive Director, Assistant Lecturer, EiABC, Addis Ababa Student, Massachusetts Institute of and Planner, International Growth Centre, (URBRA) 2003–2014 she was the Housing Finance team and a board member of the African Tsedeke Yihunie Woldu Forum for Social Studies, Addis Ababa University Technology, Cambridge New York Co-ordinator at the FinMark Trust, from Leadership Network and the Mo Ibrahim Founder, Flintstones Emanuel Admassu, Founding Partner, Mariamawit Ayele Asfaw, EiABC, Alex Cameron, Deputy Head of Mission, Marco Di Nunzio, Lecturer in African Hyungmin Pai where CAHF was established. Foundation. Previously, she was Country Engineering, Addis Ababa AD-WO, & Assistant Professor, Rhode Addis Ababa University British Embassy, Addis Ababa Studies and Anthropology, University of Professor of Architecture, Director for the World Bank, covering Tsdeke Yihune Woldu is Island School of Design, Providence Habtamu Ayicheh, Assistant Lecturer, Ruth Canagarajah, Associate, Busara Birmingham University of Seoul Samih Sawiris Cape Verde, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, the Founder and CEO of Flintstone Bizualem Admasu, Bureau, Ministry of Design, Landscape Architecture, Center for Behavioral Economics, Nairobi León Díaz-Bone, Urban Policy and Hyungmin Pai is a historian, Chairman of Orascom Mauritania and Senegal. Engineering and Flintstone Homes Urban Development and Construction, Addis Ababa University Alexander Carius, Managing Director, Design Strategist, Mediaurban, Barcelona critic and curator. He is author of The Development Holding GA, with over 30 years of experience in civil Addis Ababa Adelphi, Berlin Eva Dick, Senior Researcher, German Portfolio and the Diagram, Sensuous Switzerland and Cairo, Egypt Beth Stryker engineering. Tsedeke also serves as a board Joni Baboci, General Director of Planning Development Institute, Bonn Plan: The Architecture of Seung H-Sang, Samih Sawiris is the Founder of Founding Partner, CLUSTER member for the Construction Contractors Benjamin Agyenim - Boateng, Town and Urban Development, City of Tirana, Alex Carrasco, Coordination Attaché, Key Concepts of Korean Architecture, Orascom Development Holding GA, a (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Association of Ethiopia and Director Planner, Kumasi City Council Albania Delegation of the EU to Ethiopia, Kai Michael Dietrich, Founder and and Architecture of Amorepacific. He was development company that has delivered Training and Environmental of Habesha Cement. He holds an MSc Arlette Akingeneye, Communications Mohamed A G Bakhit, Assistant Professor Addis Ababa Project Manager, Urban Operators, Director of the inaugural Seoul Biennale of projects in Egypt, UAE, Oman, Morocco, Research) in Construction Management from the and Business Development Junior of Social Anthropology, University of Barry Cassidy, Consultant, Barry Cassidy Hamburg Architecture and Urbanism, twice Curator Montenegro, Switzerland and the UK. He Beth Stryker is co-founder of CLUSTER. University of Birmingham. Associate, MASS Design Group, Kigali Khartoum, Sudan Planning and Development, Downingtown, Yebichaye Dires, Lecturer, Ethiopian Civil for the Korean Pavilion at the Venice started the National Marine Boat Factory CLUSTER has received critical Deji Akinpelu, Co-Founder, Rethinking Carolin Bansbach, Deputy Country Pennsylvania Service University, Addis Ababa Biennale (awarded the Golden Lion, 2014) after receiving a Diploma in Economic recognition, including a Curry Stone Belinda Yuen Cities Initiative, Lagos Director, GIZ Ethiopia, Addis Ababa Jose Castillo, Principal a911, Mexico City Salih Dogenci, Managing Director, and Chief Curator for the Gwangju Engineering from the Technical University Design Prize (2017), and inclusion in Professorial Fellow and Anteneh Aklilu, Journalist, Capital, Meg Bartholomew, Associate Director, Benedetta Castrioto, Consultant, Marmara Education and Organization Design Biennale. of Berlin in 1980. He is a member of the the Egyptian National Pavilion at the Research Director, Lee Kuan Addis Ababa PwC, Sydney Addis Ababa Company, Istanbul Sawiris Foundation and a Trustee of the Venice Architecture Biennale (2016, Yew Centre for Innovative Sharon Naomi Alcade Manthey, Junior Ariadne Baskin, Urban Clean Mobility Ömer Çavuşoğlu, Senior Strategic Pierre D’Souza, Student, Massachusetts Susan Parnell Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice. 2018). Stryker has curated for DCAF in Cities, Singapore University of Technology Researcher, vhw Bundesverband für Consultant, UN Environment, Nairobi Planner, Perkins+Will, London Institute of Technology, Cambridge Global Challenges Chair, Cairo, Beirut Art Center, the Ramallah and Design Wohnen und Stadtentwiocklung, Berlin Gerhard Dust, CEO, Polycare, University of Bristol & Jennifer Semakula-Musisi Municipality and the AIA in New York Dr Belinda Yuen is Professorial Fellow and Heike Bauer, Senior Expert, German Yeneneh Chanyalew, EiABC, Gummersbach Emeritus Professor, University Executive Director, Kampala (where she held the position of Director Research Director with the Lee Kuan Yew Abebaw Alemayehu, Senior Urban Federal Ministry of Education and Addis Ababa University of Cape Town Capital City Authority, Uganda of Programs). Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC), Development Specialist, World Bank, Research, Bonn Zegeye Cherenet, Assistant Professor James Dzansi, Country Economist, Susan Parnell co-founded the African Jennifer Semakula-Musisi is Singapore University of Technology and Addis Ababa Jo Beall, Director Cultural Engagement, and Head of Competence Center for International Growth Centre, Accra Centre for Cities. She has been actively the first Executive Director of the Kampala Irene Sun Design, where she leads the Lee Li Ming Elias Yitbarek Alemayehu, Architect British Council & Professorial Research Architecture and Design, EiABC, Alejandro Echeverri, Director, URBAM involved in local, national and global Capital City Authority – established Associate Partner, McKinsey & Programme in Ageing Urbanism. She and Urban Planner, EiABC, Addis Ababa Fellow, LSE Addis Ababa University Center for urban and environmental urban policy debates around the 2030 to administer Uganda’s Capital City Company & Author, The Next was President, Singapore Institute of University Samson Kassahun Belachew, Professor Yonatan Tadesse Chernet, Planner, studies, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín Sustainable Development Goal and is an on behalf of the Central Government. Factory of the World Planners (2005–08), and Vice-President, Reem Alfahad, Research Associate, of Urban Planning and Development, Arada Subcity Urban Renewal Office, Anne Eilenberg, Urban Planner, UN- active advocate for better science policy Musisi has made enormous strides and Irene Sun is an Associate Partner at Commonwealth Association of Planners Middle East Centre, LSE Ethiopian Civil Service University, Addis Ababa Habitat, Riyadh engagement on cities. Recent books exerted tremendous efforts towards the McKinsey & Company, where she leads (South-east Asia) (2006–08; 2010–12; Adam Ambaye, Architect, Adam & Addis Ababa Yadeni Chimdessa, Architect, EiABC, Mahmoud El Burai, Director, Dubai Real include Building a Capable State: Post ongoing transformation of Kampala projects on economic development and 2014–16). Associate Studio, Addis Ababa Christian Benimana, Principal and Addis Ababa University Estate Institute, Dubai Apartheid Service Delivery (Zed, 2017) Capital City. Her achievements have healthcare in Africa. An expert on Africa– Sisto Ocanda Andama, Cities Scholar and Managing Director, MASS Design Group & Lionel Chobli, Deputy Mayor, City of Timnit Eshetu, Director of Addis Ababa and The Urban Planet (Cambridge, 2017). become a benchmark for many upcoming China relations, Sun led the development Nyah Zebong Private Consultant, Sub Sahara Solutions Director, African Design Centre, Kigali Allada, Benin infrastructure coordination, and Building municipalities in East Africa and of The Dance of the Lions & Dragons, Project Leader, African LLC, Rockville Jhono Bennett, Director, 1to1 - Agency of permit and regulation, Mayor’s Office Edgar Pieterse beyond, resulting in numerous awards in McKinsey’s 2017 report that collected Property Tax Initiative, Jose Chong, Programme Management Engagement, Johannesburg Director, African Centre for recognition of her work. the largest-ever factbase on Chinese International Centre for Tax Jorgen Eskemose Andersen, Head of Officer, UN-Habitat, Nairobi Asya Abdulatif Essajee, Assistant Lecturer Cities, University of Cape Town investment in Africa. She is the author and Development Department, Royal Danish Academy Babajimi Benson, Representative, Ikorodu Chukwuemeka Vincent Chukwuemeka, in Architectural Studies, University of & Richard von Weizsäcker Rahel Shawl of The Next Factory of the World, Nyah Zebong has worked for over 11 years of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Federal Constituency, Lagos PhD Researcher, KU Leuven, Ghent Nairobi, Nairobi Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy Founder and Managing about Chinese manufacturing investment with the Ministry of Finance of Cameroon Copenhagen Tomá Berlanda, Director for the School Maria Cielecka, Urban Planner and Lulu Estefanous, IT specialist, Excellence Professor Edgar Pieterse is Founding Director, Raas Architects, and the possibility of industrialisation on tax policy and administration issues. Nana-Yaw Andoh, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, Architect, UN-Habitat, Riyadh Development Partners Consulting, Director of the African Centre for Cities Addis Ababa in Africa. He has been a visiting lecturer of both of Architecture and Urbanism, Rochester University of Cape Town Liza Rose Cirolia, Researcher, African Addis Ababa (ACC) at the University of Cape Town. Rahel Shawl is founder and principal Taxation Law and Project Finance. Nyah Institute of Technology Ann Bernstein, Executive Director, Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town Abel Estifanos, Lecturer and Researcher, He is consulting editor for Cityscapes – an of Raas Architects plc in Addis Ababa. Mpho Parks Tau wrote his PhD on taxation of the extractive Marc Angélil, Architect and Professor of Centre for Development and Enterprise, Justin Coetzee, Founder, GoMetro and EiABC, Addis Ababa University international occasional magazine on Since 1991, she has participated in and President, United Cities and industries, focusing on tax anti-avoidance Architecture and Design, ETH Zürich Johannesburg flxrides.com, Cape Town Akrem Ezedin Abdurahim, EiABC, urbanism in the Global South. He is co- completed various notable building Local Governments (UCLG), & and transfer pricing. He is now the Project Albert Ankrah, Business Development Helawi Sewnet Beshah, Head of Addis Ababa University author of New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting projects within Ethiopia, both local and President, South African Local Leader for ICTD’s new African Property Jim Coleman, Director, Urban Economics, Manager, Jospong Group of Companies, International Relations, EiABC, Babatunde Fashola, Minister for Power, Dissonant Times (2017). He serves on the through international collaborations. Government and Association (SALGA) Tax Initiative (APTI). Oxford Policy Management, London Accra Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa Housing and Works, Government of Advisory Boards of: Indian Institute for She has received the Aga Khan Award Mpho Parks Tau is the President of both Jason Corburn, Professor, UC Berkeley Bethlehem Anteneh, Gamification/ Tsega Beyene, EiABC, Addis Ababa Nigeria Human Settlements (Bangalore), LSE for architecture and the Loeb Fellowship the United Cities and Local Governments Experience Designer, Goethe-Institut, University, Addis Ababa Nuno Crisostomo, Emergency Specialist, Cities (London), the Gauteng City-region at Harvard GSD as well as various (UCLG) and the South African Local Kristin Fedeler, PhD Candidate, Addis Ababa UNICEF, Kinshasa Observatory (Johannesburg), and the recognitions from within Ethiopia for Government Association (SALGA). He is Gautam Bhan, Lead, Academics and University of Edinburgh Michael Anthony, Co-Founder and Research, Indian Institute for Human Diego Cuesy Edgar, MSc City and Coalition for Urban Transitions. her leadership in design excellence and the former Executive Mayor of the City of Design, LSE Amanuel Fegue, Student, Addis Ababa advocacy for equitable architectural Johannesburg 2011–2016 and has headed Managing Partner, Earth Analytics India Settlements, Bangalore Science and Technology University Stephanie Czerny, Founder / Managing practices. various local government portfolios that Ltd, Mumbai Julia Black, Pro Director for Research, LSE Director, DLD Media, Munich Cyril Fegue, Researcher, University of include Development Planning, Transport, Thomas Aquilina,Urban Researcher, Philippe Andreas Bleuel, Master’s Zurich, Walferdange Environment, Economic Development Adjaye Associates, London Student Architecture, ETH Zürich Dawit Dagnew, Knowledge Management Advisor, GIZ, Addis Ababa Dereje Fekadu, Commissioner, and Finance. In 2017 he was the Co-Chair Masterplan Office, Addis Ababa City Government Nuno Ferreira Da Cruz, Assistant Ron Gross, Head of Housing Unit, Bezalel Samet Keskin, Urban Policy Expert, Hallelujah Lulie Wondimu, Researcher, Shimeles Mulugeta Kebede, Assistant Sam Rosmarin, Chief Strategy Officer, Vera Songwe, Under Secretary General, Brita Wagener, Ambassador, German Professorial Research Fellow, LSE Cities Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv Marmara Municipalities Union, Istanbul Amani Africa, Addis Ababa Country Manager, SMEC International, Komari Beverage, Addis Ababa UN and Executive Secretary, UNECA, Embassy Addis Ababa Michael Fitsum, Urban planner, Megan Groth, Assistant Editor, Shaping Rebekka Keuss, Research Assistant Mark Lutter, Executive Director, Center Addis Ababa Charlie Rosser, Photographer and Addis Ababa Angelika Wasielke, Team Leader, GIZ, Ethiopian urban planners association, Cities in an Urban Age, LSE Cities Urbanization and Human Rights, for Innovative Governance Research, Etenesh Mulushewa, EiABC, Addis filmmaker, Independent, London Yael Spector, Architect, Bezalel academy of Brussels Addis Ababa Gabriela Aguinaga Gumuzio, HafenCity University, Hamburg Washington D.C. Ababa University Richard Rubens, Psychoanalyst, William Art and Design, Tel Aviv Walta Wege, Consultant, Addis Ababa Tommaso Franzolini, Associate, Scott Consultant, UN-Habitat, Nairobi Nabil Khalifa, Architect, Kirs Mwila Lwando, Founder, Ecocity Patrick Musoke, Deputy Director, Alanson White Institute, New York Cristina Steingraber, Publisher / Ute Weiland, Executive Director, Land der Brownrigg, London Simon Gusah, Lagos CRO, 100 Resilient Construction & Guaro Farms S.C., Development, Lusaka Kampala Capital City Authority Kecia Rust, Executive Director and Architecture Historian, ArchiTangle, Berlin Ideen, Berlin Lucio Frigo, CEO, Materia, Tunis / Cities, Lagos Addis Ababa Etta Madete, Architect and Part-Time Joseph Muturi, National coordinator, founder, Centre for Affordable Housing Beth Stryker, Founding Partner, Amity Weiss, CEO, Komari Beverage, Maputo Astrid Haas, Senior Country Economist Abdulhaleem Khelef, Architect, Design, Lecturer, Morphosis Ltd and University Muungano wa Wanavijiji, Kenyan Slum Finance in Africa, Johannesburg CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Addis Ababa Joachim Fritz, Head of Department (Cities), Manager, Cities that Work, IGC Architectural Firm, Mombasa, Kenya of Nairobi Dwellers Federation and Coordinator, East Bianca Ryseck, PhD Candidate, Training and Environmental Research) Wekesa George Simiyu Wekesa, Governance and Conflict, GIZ Germany Biruk Tamrat Hailemeskel, Urban Solomon Kidane, Deputy Mayor of Bogosi Mahene, Structural Design and and West Africa, SDI, Nairobi University of Cape Town and the Transport Irene Sun, Associate Partner, McKinsey & Architect, Orkidstudio, Nairobi Pablo Fuentenebro Alonso, Project Designer/ Planner, Development Partners/ Addis Ababa Urban Planning, LSE Luc Nadal, Technical Director, ITDP, and Urban Development Authority for Company, Washington D.C. Frank Wernecke, Founder and CEO, Officer, UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi EiABC, Addis Ababa Shewit Emmanuel Kidane Mariam, Abdellah Mallek, Founder, Sylabs, Algiers New York Cape Town Samuel Tabory, Research Manager, Dronemaster, Berlin Institute of Education for Peace and Simret Haileyesus, Colleague of the Chair Private Sector Development Adviser, DFID, Alfredo Manfredini Boehm, Consultant, Gifti Nadi, British Council, Addis Ababa Ali Saichi, Intern, Urbanization Section, Sustainable Healthy Cities Network, Sustainable Development, Madrid Laureen Machuma Wesonga, Policy of Urban Design, Mekelle University Addis Ababa World Bank, Addis Ababa Omar Nagati, Founding Partner, UNECA, Addis Ababa University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Advocacy Manager, Kenya Red Cross Moti Daba Fufa, Head of Urban Mission, Emnet Hailu, Student, EiABC, Addis Bisrat Kifle, Assitant Profesor, Ethiopian Elisabeth Mansfeld, Head of Programme CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Antonio Sampaio, Research Associate Kalkidan Aberra Taddesse, Sr. Advocacy Society, Nairobi EECMY, Addis Ababa Ababa University Civil Service University, Addis Ababa Cities, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft, Training and Environmental Research) for Security and Development, The and Campaign Specialist, Addis Ababa Stephen Willacy, Chief City Architect, Daba Fufa, EiABC, Addis Ababa Rana Hajjar, Project Manager, Anna Kirstgen, Senior Project Manager, Berlin Ekram Nasray, Architect and Master’s International Institute for Strategic Studies, Medhanit Tadesse, Architecture student, Aarhus City Council University London Independent, Beirut Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart Deriba Matias, EiABC, Addis Ababa student of Landscape Architecture, EiABC, EiABC, Addis Ababa University Jamiee Williams, Project Lead, SPACE10, Tjark Gall, Urban Development and Swastik Harish, Architect, IIHS, Delhi Teddy Kisembo, Student, Makerere University Addis Ababa University Seble Samuel, Consultant, GIZ Tadesse Alemu Tadesseasissay, Guaro Copenhagen Sustainability Researcher, Urban University, Kampala Guglielmo Mattioli, Freelance Journalist, Tagel Nemomsa, Vice Manager, Exodus - Sustainable Land Management Farms, Addis Ababa Framework Arif Hasan, Director, Urban Resource Programme, Addis Ababa Jonathan Wilson, Co-Founder, Delft Link, Centre, Karachi Jacqueline M Klopp, Research Former video Journalist for NYTimes, Consulting Architects and Engineers Plc, Mpho Parks Tau, President, United Durban Issaka Garba Abdou, Head Governance Scholar, Center for Sustainable Urban New York Addis Ababa Francisco Sanin, Professor, School of Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Unit, African Union, Addis Ababa Armando Hashimito, Design and Architecture, Syracuse University, Ndenyele Wilson, Lecturer, Technical Research Director for Infonavit, Development, Earth Institute, Columbia Julia Mauser, Architect, Aenki.net, Zelalem Ngre Delele, EiABC, Addis & President, South African Local University of Mombasa, Mombasa Tom Gardner, Addis Ababa University, New York Ababa University New York Government and Association (SALGA), Mexico City Addis Ababa Michaela Winter Taylor, Senior Associate, Correspondent, The Economist, London Kubai Koigi, Designer, Aspera Design, Kate Meagher, Associate Professor in Caio Noronha, Deputy Head of Mission, Julia Sattler, Director, Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg Rosie Havener, Urban Age Publication Addis Ababa Global Leader for Urban Strategies and Ritu Garg, Senior Transport Planner, Co-ordinator, LSE Cities Nairobi Development Studies, LSE Embassy of Brazil in Kinshasa Tau Tavengwa, Co-Founder and Editor, Design, Gensler, London Arup, London Christopher Kost, Africa Program Bilen Mebratu Gebremariam, Geoffrey Nyakiongora, Student, Samih Sawiris, Chairman of Orascom Cityscapes Magazine, Cape Town & Catarina Heeckt, Project Manager, Development Holding GA, Switzerland and Visiting Associate, LSE Cities Mintesnot Woldeamanuel, Professor of Kanchwodia Abebe Gashaw, Research LSE Cities Director, Institute for Transportation and Architecture student, EiABC, Addis Ababa University of Nairobi Urban Studies and Planning, Addis Ababa Co-Investigator and Engineer, Science Development Policy, Nairobi Cairo, Egypt Brook Tefera, Architect, BIGAR Builders J Vernon Henderson, School Professor of University Bikhado D Ofungi, Investor, Dero University / California State University, and Technology Information Center of Sebastian Kriticos, Cities Economist, Rahul Mehrotra, Principal, RMA Capital, Kampala Lindsay Sawyer, Leverhulme Research and Developers PLC, Addis Ababa Northridge, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, Addis Ababa Economic Geography, LSE Fellow, University of Sheffield Cities that Work, IGC, London Architects, Mumbai and Professor of Urban Liz Ogbu, Founder and Principal, Studio Abebaw Sentie Tegegne, Director, Addis Bisrat Kifle Woldeyessus,Researcher, Andrew Ihsaan Gasnolar, Legal and Josef Hermann, Energy Advisor, GIZ, Jessica Seddon, Director, Integrated Urban Ababa City Planning Commission Addis Ababa Ezgi Kucuk, Urban Planning Coordinator, Design and Planning, Graduate School of O, Oakland EiABC, Addis Ababa University, Policy Specialist, Aurecon, Cape Town Marmara Municipalities Union, Istanbul Design, Harvard University Paul Okunlola, National Programme Strategy, WRI, Washington D.C. Berhanu Assefa Tegegne, Partnerships Addis Ababa Tamrat Gebregiorgis, Journalist, Fortune Anna Herrhausen, Executive Director, Surella Segu, Architect, El Cielo Architects, Team Leder, UNOPS, Addis Ababa Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft, Berlin Robert Kyukyu, Head of Strategy Meseret Mekonnen, EiABC, Addis Ababa Officer, UN-Habitat, Abuja FCT Selam Wondim, CEO, Grohydro SC, Addis, Addis Ababa Management and Business, Kampala University Mexico City Yishak Teklegiorgis, Architect, EiABC, Traudl Herrhausen, Frankfurt Babafenwa Omoniyi, Head, Commercial Addis Ababa Dawit Gebrehiwet, Graduate Urban Capital City Authority Nalisha Men, Builder Development Property Brokerage- Nigeria Yared Seid, Country Economist, Addis Ababa University Brett Herron, Former Member of the Jen Wood, AD-WO, Providence and Regional Planner, Mekelle University, Jurgen Laartz, CEO, Panta Rhei GmbH, Manager, Orkidstudio, Nairobi Hyungmin Pai, Professor of Architecture, International Growth Centre, Addis Ababa Nahom Teklu, Architect, NArcHome Mekelle Mayoral Committee: Transport and Urban Bettina Woodward, Director, Open City Paretz Valeria B Mensah, Technical Advisor, University of Seoul Aser Seifu, Media, Film and Media Architecture, Addis Ababa Architects, Cape Town Ephrem Gebremariam, Scientific Development, City of Cape Town School, Addis Ababa Somik V Lall, Global Lead for Regional Office of the Executive Secretary, UNECA, Alula Pankhurst, Young Lives Ethiopia Tigist Kassahun Temesgen, Architect and Mekonen Wube Ermed, Town planner, Director, EiABC, Addis Ababa University, Carla Camilla Hjort, Director, SPACE10, Development Solutions, World Bank, Addis Ababa Jennifer Semakula-Musisi, Executive Urbanist, UN-Habitat, Addis Ababa Copenhagen Country Director, PDRC, Addis Ababa Addis Ababa Housing Development Addis Ababa Washington D.C. Adrian Mertens, Associate, McKinsey & Director, Kampala Capital City Authority, Abraha Tesfay, College of Urban Fabienne Hoelzel, Professor of Urban Anokhi Parikh, Associate Partner, Project Office Bethelhem Gebremedhin, EiABC, Addis Patrick Lamson-Hall, Research Scholar, Company, Cologne Dalberg, Johannesburg Uganda Development and Engineering, Ethiopian Ababa University, Addis Ababa Design, ABK Stuttgart Samantha Yates, Livelihoods and Urban Expansion Program, NYU Marron Zayd Minty, Researcher in Cultural Policy, Susan Parnell, Global Challenges Chair, Burcuhan Sener, International Civil Service University, Addis Ababa Humanitarian Team Leader, DFID, Maheder Gebremedhin, Principal, Yema Ulrich Hoerning, Deputy Mayor of Institute of Urban Management, New York Independent, Johannesburg Cooperation Coordinator, Marmara Samson Tesfaye, Senior Consultant, Leipzig, Germany University of Bristol & Emeritus Professor, Addis Ababa Architecture, host of Kebet eske Ketema, Anke Langhardt, 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Mekonnen, EiABC, Dieter Läpple, Emeritus Professor, Berlin LSE Cities Director, Raas Architects, Addis Ababa Girmaye Teshome, Environmental Addis Ababa University Heaven Gebreyohannes, Urban planner, Laurence Horstman, Executive MSc HafenCity University, Hamburg Zhongyi Shi, Architectural Assistant, Eric Specialist, Addis Ababa Resilient Programme Administrator, LSE Cities Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Edgar Pieterse, Director, African Centre Robel Yeshiwas, Urban Planner, EiABC, EiABC, Addis Ababa University, Fiona Latabo, Architect and Urban Paris in charge of urbanism, architecture, Parry Architects, London Project Office Addis Ababa Zhengli Huang, Research Associate, for Cities, University of Cape Town & Addis Ababa University Designer, UDesign Architects, Kampala/ projects of Greater Paris, economic Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Betelehem Demissie Shibeshi, Spatial Bezawit Teshome, Architect, lecturer and Anasimos Gelan, CEO, GreenKetema Sheffield University Tsedeke Yihunie Woldu, Founder, Nairobi development and attractiveness, France Robert Bosch Academy, Berlin Plan Preparation Director at Addis Ababa student, Wolkite University, Addis Ababa Flintstones Engineering, Addis Ababa Landscaping S.C, Addis Ababa Khaled A Hussein, Chief, Forecasting City Government Plan Commission Ladi Lawanson, Honourable Oliyad Mitiku, Architect and Urban Natalie Pruett, Urban Stratagist, Flint, Salem Gulilat Tilahun, Architect and Nebyou Yonas, EiABC, Addis Ababa Zelalem Getahun, Consultant, Excellence Section, Macroeconomic Policy Division, Commissioner for Transportation, Lagos Designer, EiABC, Addis Ababa University Miheret Shimelis, Student, EiABC, Addis student, EiABC, Addis Ababa University UNECA, Addis Ababa Michigan University Development Partners Consulting, State Government Oliyad Mitiku, EiABC, Addis Ababa Ababa University Agazi Tiumelissan, Researcher, Addis Ababa Olusola Ikuforiji, Water Resources Damyanti Radheshwar, Architect+Urban Yixin Yu, 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