International Conference Urban Futures 2050

Berlin, May 26-27, 2011

Short Biographies

Susanne Achilles-Kuhnhardt, visionSgate As a business manager holding a PhD, Susanne Achilles-Kuhnhardt has been active as a consultant and entrepreneur in various industries. Her expertise ranges from telecommunications and media to services, manufacturing, and her current activities in the field of renewable energies. She focuses on the development of management, vision, strategy, and sales. As head of visionSgate management consulting, supporting and developing projects and companies in the field of renewable energies are of particular importance to her.

Abebayehu Assefa, Addis Ababa University Abebayehu Assefa, born in 1953, did his BSc in Mechanical Engineering at the Addis Ababa University and MSc in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology – UMIST, UK. He did his PhD (Dr.-Ing.) degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Aachen. He has been the head of the Energy Center of the Faculty of Technology, Addis Ababa University since 2007. He has worked at the University since 1994 where he lectures and publishes regularly. His key interests are e.g. computer-aided analysis and design of thermal systems, renewable energy conversion, power plant engineering and computer modeling of mechanical systems. Assefa is also a member of the German Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Academic Commission of the Faculty of Technology. He is an Executive Committee member of the Ethiopian Society of Mechanical Engineers (ESME).

Tina Bär, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation Brandenburg Tina Bär studied Political Science, Public Management and Environmental Education at University of Potsdam. She works as Education consultant at the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation Brandenburg. Her main fields of work include ecology and sustainable development, energy and climate protection and democracy. She coordinates different international projects regarding sustainability communication, municipal climate protection and political participation. She is 28 years old, married, has one child (soon two of them) and sees herself as a humanist and optimist.

Katrin Bohn, Technical University of Berlin Katrin Bohn is an architect and guest professor for cities and nutrition at the Institute for Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design (ILAUP), Technical University of Berlin. Together with André Viljoen, she runs Bohn&Viljoen Architects, a small architecture practice and environmental consultancy in London. Bohn&Viljoen Architects have developed the concept of CPUL (Continuous Productive Urban Landscape), with which they contributed to the international urban design discourse in 2004.

Michael Brüntrup, German Development Institute (DIE) Michael Brüntrup has worked at the German Development Institute (DIE) since 2003 on topics related to agricultural and rural development, trade policy, and food security. His geographical focus is sub-Saharan Africa.

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He studied agricultural sciences at the Technical University of Munich/Weihenstephan and prepared his doctoral thesis at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim, where he was also employed from 1990–1996. From 1997–2003 he worked as a freelance consultant in the areas of microfinance, agriculture, and resource economics.

Weert Canzler, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) Weert Canzler, born in 1960, is a political scientist with a PhD in sociology from the TU Berlin and co-founder of the Mobility Research Group at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). He has worked at the WZB since 1993. His main research focus includes: innovation and future studies, automobile and transport policy, and infrastructure policy. He publishes regularly. From 1988 to 1992 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT) in Berlin and the Sekretariat für Zukunftsforschung (Secretariat for Future Studies) Gelsenkirchen.

Martin J. Chávez, ICLEI (International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives) USA Martin J. Chávez, three-term former mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is Executive Director of ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA. Chavez is based in ICLEI USA’s Washington DC Executive Office. He assumed the Executive Director position at ICLEI in 2010. Chávez leads the growing national movement of more than 600 US cities, towns, and counties that are taking action to combat climate change, save energy, create green jobs, and make their communities better places to live. He directs ICLEI’s ongoing efforts to empower these local governments with the tools, resources, and expertise necessary to achieve their goals.

Christine Chemnitz, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation Christine Chemnitz is Advisor for international agricultural policy at the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation. Her main interests are issues of global food supply, the sustainable development of agriculture, and the ecologically sustainable organization of trade agreements. Chemnitz studied Agricultural Sciences in Berlin and Göttingen and his currently writing her thesis at the Humboldt University Berlin at the faculty of agricultural trade and development.

Kees Christiaanse, Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Kees Christiaanse, born in in 1953, studied architecture at the Delft University of Technology. Between 1980 and 1989, Christiaanse worked for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in , becoming a partner in 1983. Afterwards he started his own firm in Rotterdam, Ir. Kees Christiaanse Architects & Planners, which was renamed KCAP Architects & Planners in 2002. In 1990 he founded ASTOC Architects & Planners in . From 1996 until 2003 he was Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Technical University of Berlin. Currently, he is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH). Since summer 2007 he has been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. He regularly acts as a jury member for international competitions and is the author of several publications about architecture and urban design. In spring 2007 he was appointed as a member of the advisory panel of Design for London.

Kristina Dely, Covenant of Mayors Office Kristina Dely has been heading the Covenant of Mayors Office since its establishment in January 2009. The office − composed of five major European networks of local authorities − co-ordinates the Covenant of Mayors, an initiative by the European Commission. Formerly, Kristina was in charge of European Affairs of Energy Cities, a European association representing 1,000 local authorities from 30 countries pioneering in sustainable energy strategies. Kristina holds master’s degrees in Economy and Environmental Management from the Budapest University of Economics and the École de Management de Lyon.

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Sabine Drewes, Heinrich Böll Foundation Sabine Drewes is Advisor for local politics and urban development at the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation. Previously, she was the editor of the Kommunalpolitische Infothek (Local Politics News Portal). She studied political science at the Freie Universität Berlin. Between 1994 and 1997 she worked as a freelance journalist (Zitty, DeutschlandRadio, Deutsche Welle, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). From 1997 to 2002 she worked a publishing assistant for The Greens/Alternatives in local councils in North-Rhine Westphalia. She co-edits “Das neue Gesicht der Stadt. Strategien für die urbane Zukunft im 21. Jahrhundert” (The New Green Face of the City. Strategies for the Urban Future of the 21st Century; 2006) and “Urban Futures 2030” (2009).

Zuzana Drhová, The Green Party Czechia Zuzana Drhová was born in Prague in 1963 and has lived there most of her life. In 2010 she became a member of the municipal council in one of Prague’s 23 districts. Since 2011 she has been a member of the Prague regional board of the Green Party responsible for land-use planning. She graduated from the Agriculture University and finished her dissertation in Social and Public Policy Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University. There she focused on the methodology of public participation, sustainable development, and environmental policy. For 10 years she worked as a director of the Czech NGO association Green Circle. Since 2010 she has been with the Agency for Social Inclusion in Roma Locations. From 2006–2010 she was a member of the Czech Green Party Board and a member of Prague City Hall.

Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig, MoP, /The Greens Berlin Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig, born 1941 in Dresden, studied architecture and urban planning in Hannover and Berlin, after which she worked as a city planner in Berlin. A member of the Green Party since 1993, she was a Member of Parliament () between 1994 and 2005, focusing on urban development and budgetary policies. Between 2006 and 2009 she was leader of the Greens in the Berlin Parliament (Abgeordnetenhaus). She was member of the expert commission “Historical Centre Berlin” and since 2007 has been on the advisory board of the Federal Foundation Building Culture. She was director of “Stadtbau” and the planning councilor of Berlin-Kreuzberg in 1989/1990.

Johannes Fiedler, Institute for City Planning and Landscape Planning, TU Braunschweig Johannes Fiedler, born in 1958 in Vienna, is an architect and city planner. He is professor at the Institute for City Planning and Landscape Planning at the TU Braunschweig. He works as an advisor and planner on different projects such as aspern Seestadt, Vienna, Direcção Geral de Ordenamento and Gabinetes Técnicos de Santiago of the Cape Verde. His main areas of research are urbanization, public spaces, and spatial justice. He publishes regularly. His last publication that he edited is entitled Verträge mit der Zukunft - System und Praxis der Planung in Kap Verde (Contracts wih the Futures – Systems and Practice of Planning in Cape Verde), Vienna, 2011.

Elisabete França, São Paulo Housing Secretariat Elisabete França, born in 1956, is an architect and urbanist and currently holds the position of Head of the Social Housing Department at the municipality of the São Paulo housing secretariat. She is responsible for the local slum upgrading program; land tenure and tenement housing upgrading in the central area; and the development of the strategic plan for social housing in São Paulo (partnership with the cities alliance). França is a senior technical consultant for international agencies such as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank, and UNCHS (HABITAT). She was a general coordinator of the urban recovery and environmental sanitation program of the Guarapiranga reservoir, conducted in partnership with the state government of São Paulo and the World Bank from 1993 to 2000. In 2002 she was the curator of the Brazilian Favela Upgrading Exhibition (Brazilian Pavilion) at the Venice Biennale.

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Ralf Fücks, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation Ralf Fücks has been the Co-President of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation since 1996. He is in charge of the Foundation’s domestic work as well as foreign and security policy areas for Europe and North America. He also supervises the scholarship program for the Grüne Akademie (Green Academy), a think tank of researchers and policymakers, as well as the Grünes Gedächtnis Archives, a Green Party archive for contemporary history and new social movements. Over the years, Fücks has taken part in the debate over the Green Party strategy and program through numerous essays and articles. As a member of the Basic Program Commission and other advisory committees of the Green Party, he has sustained the connection between the Foundation and the Party. He has contributed to several election platforms. In 1999, he was appointed by the German government to the Independent Commission on Migration under the chairmanship of Prof. Rita Süßmuth. The Commission presented its suggestions for a modern immigration and integration policy in July 2001. Fücks has written about ecology and economics, political strategy, Europe, and international politics on the Internet and for ’s larger daily and weekly newspapers and international political journals.

Herbert Girardet, World Future Council Herbert Girardet is the co-founder and Director of Programs for the World Future Council. He is a consultant on sustainable development and a recipient of a UN Global 500 Award “for outstanding environmental achievements.” For many years he has focused mainly on the challenges of sustainable urban development. He has been a consultant to the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and UN-HABITAT and has developed sustainability policies for major cities such as London and Vienna. In 2003 he was the inaugural “Thinker in Residence” in Adelaide, developing sustainable development strategies for South . He has also been an adviser to the Dongtan Eco-City project on Chongming Island, Shanghai. He is currently working as senior consultant to the Saudi Sustainability Initiative, based in Riyadh. He is the author of several book amongst which is People Cities Planet (2008)

Jürgen Görres, Amt für Umweltschutz Stuttgart Jürgen Görres was born in 1962 and studied process engineering at the University of Stuttgart. Since 1996 he has been with the Environmental Protection Office of the City of Stuttgart, initially as Head of the section for Heat Economics and Energy Concepts and since 2006 as Head of the Department for Energy Economics. Since 1998 he has also been a lecturer on thermodynamics at the University of Applied Sciences Pforzheim. He is a member of several different committees on energy (DIN, VDI, German Cities Association, Council of European Municipalities and Regions). After receiving his degree, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Process Engineering/University of Stuttgart and finished in 1996 with a PhD in the field of energy technology.

Anja Hajduk, Alliance 90/The Greens, GAL-Fraction , born 1963 in Duisburg, studied psychology with a focus on communication and organizational development in Düsseldorf and . From 2008 to 2010 she was the Senator for Urban Development and the Environment of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Since March 2011 she has been Vice President of the Green parliamentary group in the Hamburg Parliament. From 1997 to 2002 she was a member of the Hamburg Parliament for the Green Party (GAL). During that time she was also a member of the governing committee and Secretary of the Green parliamentary group. Afterward, she became a Member of Parliament (Bundestag) and headed the Hamburg chapter of the Green Party while serving as speaker for budgetary questions of the Green parliamentary group. After university, she worked for eight years as a psychologist in intercultural youth exchanges.

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Silvia Martin Han, Technische Universität Berlin Silvia Martin Han, born in 1976, is the project coordinator and responsible for scientific collaboration as the Chair of Landscape Architecture/Open Space Planning of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin). Her key interests are transdisciplinary research and development, project management, sustainable urban agriculture, integrated urban development, open space planning, the MENA region and intercultural communication. She has been working as a project coordinator and research assistant on the Moroccan-German BMBF-megacity project, “Urban Agriculture as an Integrative Factor of Climate-Optimised Urban Development, Casablanca (UAC)”, at the TU Berlin since 2006. Han is a certified landscape planner. She worked at the German Technical Cooperation (GIZ/former GTZ), the German Development Organization DED, NGOs, and planning offices.

Saif Ul Haque, Architect Saif Ul Haque, born in 1958, studied architecture at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and is currently the principal of the architectural practice Saif Ul Haque Sthapati, based in Dhaka. His built works include the Gouranga Gunalanker Hostel at Chittagong; the Camp House for French Archaeological Mission at Bogra; the Banchte Shekha Training Center at Jessore; and the BRAC Training Center at Faridpur – all in Bangladesh. He is also involved in research related to architecture and urban issues. He is a founding member of the Chetana Sthapatya Unnoyon Society and coordinated the project of documentation of architectural heritage of Bangladesh. He was a co-organizer of the exhibition “Sherebanglanagar: Louis I. Kahn and the Making of a Capital Complex,” held in 2002 at Dhaka, and he co-authored the book under the same title.

Ilse Helbrecht, Humboldt University Berlin Ilse Helbrecht studied geography, social sciences, urban planning, and administrative law at the University of Münster and did her PhD at the Technical University of Munich in 1993. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Department of Geography in Vancouver, Canada. In 1999 she habilitated at the TU of Munich and was Professor for Human Geography at Bremen University from 2002 to 2009 where she also served as Deputy Rector. In 2009 she accepted a chair at the Cultural and Social Geography Faculty at Humboldt University Berlin.

Jan Michael Hess, Ecosummit Jan Michael Hess is the founder of Ecosummit and CEO of the Berlin-based consulting firm Mobile Economy GmbH. Mobile Economy provides management consulting to Cleantech, Internet and Mobile companies. In 2010, Jan went green and organised the Green Venture Summit 2010 on 10 May in Berlin. In December 2010, Jan launched the first annual Ecosummit - the Smart Green Economy Network for startups, investors and corporates. Ecosummit TV is the new Youtube channel to foster the Smart Green Economy on a global scale. Jan acts as Chief Editor for Ecosummit.net and Ecosummit TV.

Fabienne Hoelzel, São Paulo Housing Secretariat Fabienne Hoelzel, born in 1976, is a city planner and architect. She currently works as the Urban Design Project Coordinator at the São Paulo housing secretariat, where she is responsible for the local slum upgrading program as well as land tenure and tenement housing upgrading in the central area. She was the Assistant Curator of the 4th International Rotterdam Architecture Biannual 2009 entitled “Open City: Designing Coexistence” (Curator: Kees Christiaanse) and worked as a researcher at the Institute of Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. She worked as an architect in international firms such as Herzog & de Meuron and as a teaching assistant at the Technical University of Munich. She lectures and publishes on a regular basis.

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Olav Hohmeyer, University of Flensburg Olav Hohmeyer has been Professor for Energy and Resource Sciences at the University of Flensburg since July 1998. He is Head of Studies for the course in Energy and Environmental Management. From 2002 to 2008 he was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As Vice-Chair of Working Group III (mitigation of climate change), he contributed to the Fourth Assessment Report. Since 2008 he also has been a member of the German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU). He has gained international renown with his work in the field of the social costs of energy consumption.

Andrej Holm, HU Berlin Andrej Holm works as a social scientist at the chair of city and regional sociology at the Humboldt University Berlin. His main focus areas are urban renewal and housing policy in international comparison. His last publication is "Ein ökosoziales Paradox. Stadtumbau und Gentrifizierung" (An Ecosocial Paradoxon: Urban Renewal and Gentrification) published in: politische ökologie 124 (Post-Oil-City) in 2011.

Jenny Jones, Green Group, The London Assembly Jenny Jones is an ex-archaeologist and former Chair of the Green Party. She has been a member of the London Assembly since 2000 and was elected as the first Green member on Southwark Council in 2006. In 2009/2010 she was appointed Chair of the Planning and Housing Committee in the Assembly and has overseen reports such as Cultivating the Capital that consider urban agriculture in London. Since being elected to the Assembly, Jones has worked to secure: safer roads, improved facilities for pedestrians and cyclists, reductions in road crimes and traffic, and excellent public transport for all users. Jones is also a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority. In the previous mayoral administration, Jones was the chair of London Food, the Mayor’s road safety ambassador, and the Mayor’s green transport adviser. She is also the former Deputy Mayor of London. In all her roles, Jones has raised awareness of the dangers of climate change and the urgent need to reduce greenhouse emissions. She has been a member of the project board that has led the delivery of the East London Green Grid of open spaces. In 2004 she was named as one of 200 “women of achievement.”

Peter Keller, Green City Energy Peter Keller, born in 1965, is Senior Manager of the division for local energy consulting at Green City Energy. Trained in forestry, he has gained practical and implementation-oriented knowledge in the areas of regional and rural development, renewables, cross-border cooperation, climate protection, and (EU, federal, state) funded projects by working together with cities, municipalities, and regions over the past 15 years. Through his cooperation with public institutions, he has knowledge of the work and decision-making processes of local administrations. A central characteristic of his professional activities is a focus on practice and close collaboration with local actors.

Michael Knoll, Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT) Michael Knoll, born 1950, was trained in industrial sales and has several years of professional experience in manufacturing. He studied political science at the University of Frankfurt and the Free University of Berlin. From 1985 to 1988, he was a research assistant at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in the socio- economic panel section. Since 1989 he has been a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT) and coordinates the research cluster on energy and regional studies. In the past years, the focus of his work has been the analysis and assessment of regional and structural transformations as well as research into the scope for local, private, and civil society action to advance the sustainability of cities.

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Thomas Krebs, SAGA GWG Thomas Krebs, born in 1964, has been member of the board of the SAGA Siedlungs-Aktiengesellschaft Hamburg (SAGA Habitation PLC) since 2009 and member of the executive board of GWG Gesellschaft für Wohnen und Bauen mbH (GWG Society of Living and Building Ltd.). Since 1999 Krebs has been employed at both companies. He studied Economics, Political Sciences, History and Philosophy and did his PhD in 1995.

Renate Künast, MoP Alliance 90/The Greens in the German Bundestag Renate Künast was born in 1955 in Recklinghausen, North-Rhine Westphalia. From 2001 to 2005 she was Federal Minister for consumer protection, nutrition, and agriculture. She is this year’s candidate of Alliance 90/The Greens for the office of Mayor of Berlin. Since October 2005 she has been the leader of the Green parliamentary group in the Bundestag. She studied social work in Düsseldorf and worked from 1977 to 1979 in this profession in a prison in Berlin. After that she studied law until 1985 and worked as lawyer. She joined The Greens in West Berlin in 1979 and has worked for the party in various positions since then. During the SPD/Green coalition in Berlin 1989/1990, she headed the Green faction in the Berlin Parliament (Abgeordnetenhaus) and continued to be a member of parliament following the end of the coalition. She was spokesperson on legal questions, and from 1998 to 2002 she was again leader of the Greens in the Berlin Parliament. Between 2000 and 2001 she was Federal Chairwoman of the Green Party.

Dorothee Landgrebe, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation Dorothee Landgrebe is Advisor for Ecology at the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation. Her main focus is the ecological conversion of the economy (“Greening the Economy”), the social configuration of the ecological turnaround, and the national and European energy, nuclear and climate protection policies. She studied law in Freiburg and Berlin and did her 2. state examination in Berlin. Afterwards she worked on different projects and campaigns for environmental and development NGOs in Berlin, Vietnam, and India. She worked as research assistant for Renate Künast, MoP, from 2002-2005 and as consultant for integration policies at Ramboell Management Consulting. She worked as a research consultant in the field of environmental law and participation at the Independent Institute for Environmental Issues (UfU) from 2006-2008. She is 36 years old, married, and has one child.

Jan Laurier, Dutch Union of Tenants Jan Laurier, born in 1949, has been the President of the Dutch Union of Tenants (Woonbond) since 2004 and Vice-President of the International Union of Tenants since 2010. He has been a member of the Dutch Senate since 2007. Laurier combines the Presidency of the Dutch Union of Tenants with that of an advisory council in social security, in which all major interest groups, such as the Dutch trade unions and disability organizations, are united. Laurier has been a deputy mayor of a small town in the (Leiden) for almost nine years.

Engelbert Lütke Daldrup, Agentur für Stadtentwicklung GmbH Engelbert Lütke Daldrup has been the Managing Partner of the Agentur für Stadtentwicklung GmbH in Berlin since 2010. He worked as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development from 2006 to 2009. He studied urban planning at the University of Dortmund and was councilor for planning in Frankfurt/Main. Afterwards, he worked as a researcher at the Technical University of Berlin and in the planning department of the Berlin Senate as Head of the division for the Development of the Capital. From 1995 to 2005 he was the appointee for urban development and building in Leipzig. He is Honorary Professor for Urban Development at the Technical University of Berlin and for National and European Spatial Development at the University of Leipzig as well as a member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts and of the German Academy for

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Urban and Regional Spatial Planning. Daldrup is also Chair of the advisory board of the Leipzig Housing and Building Society.

Cecilia Martinez, New York Office UN-HABITAT Cecilia Martinez has been Director of the New Office of UN-Habitat since April 2011. Before that she was Director of the UN-HABITAT regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean from 2007. She studied urban design in Oxford, urban planning and design in Edinburgh, and architecture in Mexico. She worked as Leading Coordinator and Program Leader of the UN-HABITAT program in Mexico (SEDESOL). Additionally, she was Head of the Local Urban Development Program of the Autonomous University Mexico. In addition to many other international projects, she was Director of the International Program on Megacities at Trinity College, Connecticut, USA, between 2000 and 2002.

Simon Marvin, Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures (SURF), Salford University, Manchester Simon Marvin is currently the Co-Director of SURF, the Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures of Salford University. Simon is an expert on the changing relations between neighborhoods, cities, regions, and infrastructure networks in a period of resource constraint, institutional restructuring, and climate change. Simon is a co-author of books on cities and infrastructure, e.g. Splintering Urbanism. Simon’s current research focuses on two large SURF programs. SURF is the only UK partner in the MISTRA – Swedish Research Foundation – urban sustainability research program launched at the World Urban Forum 5 in Rio de Janeiro.

Michael Melzer, Institut Raum & Energie Michael Melzer (former undersecretary) is a fully qualified lawyer. From 1971 to 1991 he worked in the state administration, the Federal Ministry of Finance, the Federal Chancellery, and Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing. Since 1991 he has been an associate at the Institut Raum & Energie (Space and Energy) Hamburg where he is responsible for nationwide models of regional and inter-municipal cooperation as project head.

Magali Menant, econet china / German Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Shanghai (AHK) Megali Menant has been part of the delegation of the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (AHK) in Shanghai, China, since 2002 and is responsible for the promotion of German solutions in environmental protection, renewables, and energy-efficient buildings in China. Since 2007 she has been coordinating the platform “econet china” an industry consortium with the object of promoting Chinese-German cooperation in the field of sustainability focusing on sustainable urban development and building efficiency. Within her work Mrs Menant developed communication campaigns for the circulation of concepts for sustainable (urban) development, e.g. “Urban Visions” within the framework of “Germany and China, together in movement” and “ecobuild shanghai”, a building exhibition within the sister-city arrangement of Hamburg and Shanghai. Her main focus is the advancement of international cooperation in the areas of building, energy, environment, export promotion as well as marketing.

Zbigniew Michniowski, Deputy Mayor Bielsko-Biala Zbigniew Michniowski has been the deputy mayor of Bielsko-Biala, Poland, since 2003. He studied power engineering. During his professional career he completed postgraduate studies in economics of enterprises and industrial design at the Faculty of Architecture. He worked as an industrial designer, president of Energy Conservation Agency and Mayor of the City of Bielsko-Biała. As a representative of the city he is the President of the Polish network Energie Cités and Vice-President of European Network Energy Cities. Michniowski has

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realized several projects in the field of energy efficiency and climate protection and has taken an active part in the implementation of numerous European projects in cooperation with Energy Cities. He has also participated in the European Commission’s initiative “Covenant of Mayors”.

Osamu Okamura, Architect, ERA21 Osamu Okamura, born in 1973 in Tokyo, is an architect and editor-in-chief of the professional architecture magazine ERA21. He is and was an external lecturer on the philosophy faculty, Masaryk University in Brno; at SU Strasbourg; and IISCE DSW in Wroclaw. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture CTU Prague, studied conceptual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and studied at ENSA Nantes. He has published in professional magazines on a regular basis and has been the independent nominator of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – the Mies van der Rohe Award.

Philipp Oswalt, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Philipp Oswalt, born in 1964 in Frankfurt/Main, worked as editor of the architectural magazine Arch+ and as an architect after he finished his architectural studies. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Architectural Theory and Designing at the University of Kassel and the Director of the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau since 2009. From 2002 to 2008 he was the Chief Curator of the project “Shrivelling Cities” of the Federal Cultural Foundation in cooperation with the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and Arch+. Since 1998 Philipp has worked as a freelance architect in Berlin and has worked on several projects, such as Director of the European Research Project “Urban Catalyst” and the project “Volkspalast” in Berlin. From 1996 to 1997 he worked with at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam.

Ruedi Ott, VLP-ASPAN Zürich Since 2000 Ruedi Ott has been a member of the board of the Swiss Association for Spatial Planning VLP- ASPAN. He studied civil and transport engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich. Since 1974 he has worked for the city planning office of Zurich in the transport planning division. Following the administrative reform in 1996, this division was integrated into the public works office. From 1990 to 2002 he was member of the board of the Association of Swiss Transport Engineers. Additionally, he has represented the City of Zurich as a permanent guest in the special commission on transport planning of the German Cities Association. Between 1997 and 2003, Ott was a member of the Swiss Federal Research Commission on “research on roads” (UVEK).

Lari Pitkä-Kangas, Municipal Commissioner Green Party City of Malmö Lari Pitkä-Kangas has been Municipal Commissioner in charge of Urban Ecology and Sustainable Development in the City of Malmö since 2006. In addition to issues concerning integrated ecological and social sustainability, he is also in charge of sustainable procurement, as well as being responsible for the Department of Facilities and Service Management, City of Malmö. He did his research studies within the field of Technology and Environment Studies, 1993–1998. Mostly at the Department of History of Ideas, Science and Technology and Environmental History at Umeå University, Sweden. Pitkä-Kangas has also been lecturer at the Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå Institute of Technology and Urban Studies at Malmö University. He is a member of the Global Steering Committee for Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, REN21. And he is also a member of the Municipal Network Committee within the Swedish Green Party.

Ramona Pop, MoP, Alliance 90/The Greens in the Berlin Senate , born in 1977 in Timisoara, Rumania, moved to Germany in 1988. She studied political sciences in Münster and Berlin. Since 1997 she has been a member of Alliance 90/The Greens. She was a member of the

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board of the county of Münster, member of the federal board and spokeswoman of the , member of the Basic Program Commission, member of the Berlin Senate (Abgeordnetenhaus), and vice chairwoman of the Greens parliamentary group. She also served as the spokeswoman for labor market policy. In 2009 she was the chairwoman of the Greens fraction in the Berlin Senate.

Michael Raschemann, Energiequelle GmbH Michael Raschermann has been Managing Partner of Energiequelle GmbH since 1997. During his studies in civil engineering he started planning and building a wind power station. Based in Zossen, Energiequelle plans, develops, and builds wind energy, photo voltaic, and biogas plants across Europe. A forward-thinking project was realized with the energy self-sufficient village Feldheim (Brandenburg): The individual homes are supplied with heat and power from renewable energy power plants at their own doorstep via autarchic local grids.

Benjamin Raschke, Party Chairman Alliance 90/The Greens Brandenburg / Bürgerbegehren Klimaschutz Benjamin Raschke, born in 1982 in Lübben, studied political science, philosophy, and law at the Universities of Konstanz and Warsaw. He is a member of AEGEE (European Students’ Forum) Konstanz, The Greens, and the alumni association of the Heinrich Böll Foundation at the University of Konstanz. In 2007 and 2008 he was a campaign worker for the federal Green Party in the climate and anti-nuclear energy campaigns. From 2009 onward he was Head of Mobility and Campaigns and the climate project of the Federal Association of Citizen Advice Bureaus. Since 2010 he has been a research assistant of Bärbel Höhn, MP for the Green Party in the Bundestag, and has worked on the anti-nuclear energy campaign and the parliamentary investigation committee on (nuclear waste repository) Gorleben. He continues to be a local councilor in Schönwald, party Chairman of the Greens in Brandenburg, and a member of the local referendum initiative for climate protection.

Frank Rehme, MetroSystems GmbH Frank Rehme works on retail scenarios of the future for a globally active retailer. His focus is on innovation and new concepts for the challenges of his industry and society in the 21st century. He has 30 years of retailing and industry experience. Managing change has shaped his profile, and years of practical leadership experience has enriched his knowledge of human exchange in many situations. At the POPAI (Point-of-Purchase Advertising International) trade association, where the point-of-sale marketing activities are concentrated, he is responsible for digital marketing. Trends and changes in society, people and social structures are his interest. Privately, he supports the foundation Kultur für Kinder (Culture for Kids), an international initiative for the support of talented children from non-academic backgrounds.

Andreas Rieger, bauforum dresden e.V. Andreas Rieger, born in 1963, studied architecture in Munich. After he finished his studies he moved to Dresden where he founded an architectural office. He worked and lectured at the Technical University Dresden and became a member of the Chamber of Architects in Saxony and Brandenburg. He was also a member of the advisory board of the Foundation Äussere Neustadt Dresden (Outer New Town Dresden). Furthermore, he lectured at the Westsächsischen Hochschule Zwickau. In 2005, he founded the bauforum dresden e.V. (building forum) to support building collectives. He became the chairman of the district association Dahme-Spreewald of Alliance 90/The Greens and is a founding member of the working group on culture in Brandenburg.

Anumita Roychowdhury, Centre for Science and Environment Anumita Roychowdhury is the Executive Director for Research and Advocacy at the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, India. She is in charge of research and advocacy on sustainable cities. She has worked extensively to build up the policy advocacy program on clean air and sustainable mobility. She has co-authored

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the book Slow Murder: The Deadly Story of Vehicular Pollution in India in 1996 and the sequel The Leapfrog Factor: Clearing the Air in Asian Cities in 2006, which have catalyzed the Right to Clean Air campaign at the Centre. Over the years she has participated and played an active role in many important national and global forums on environmental issues.

Dieter Salomon, Mayor of Freiburg, Breisgau, Alliance 90/The Greens was elected in 2002 as the first Green mayor of a large German city (Freiburg). In April 2010 he was confirmed in his office for a second eight-year term. He is a member of the governing board of the German Cities Association, Vice President of the Cities Association of Baden-Württemberg, President of the Municipal Employers Association Baden-Württemberg, and a member of the world executive committee ICLEI (International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives). Dieter Salomon, born 1960 in Melbourne, Australia, was raised in the Allgäu region in southern Germany. He studied political science, finance, economic policy, and French literature at the and received his PhD in political science in 1991. He has been a member of the Greens since 1980 and was member of the city council in Freiburg between 1990 and 2000. In 1992 he was elected into the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg (Landtag) for the Freiburg-West constituency for the first time. Until his election as Mayor, he was MP from 2000 to 2002 as leader of the Green parliamentary group.

Carolin Schröder, TU Berlin Carolin Schröder, born in 1970, studied landscape planning in Berlin and Dublin and did her PhD in city planning. She became a co-director of the division “participation research” at the Center for Technology and Society of the TU Berlin. Her key areas of interest are actors in the development of cities and regions, inter- and transdisciplinary research on cooperation and participation, and the coordination of various research networks and clusters.

Oliver Schruoffeneger, MoP, Alliance 90/The Greens in the Berlin Senate Oliver Schruoffeneger, born in 1962, is a political scientist with a degree from the FU Berlin. From 1987 to 2001 he was a member of the Green fraction in the district council of Berlin-Reinickendorf. From 1989 to 1999 he was chairman of the fraction, and from 1985 to 1994 executive director of the fraction. Afterwards he worked as a research assistant in the budget department of the Green fraction in the Berlin Senate (Abgeordnetenhaus) until 2001. Since then he has been a member of the Berlin Senate, spokesman for budget and development issues of the fraction and since 2007 partner and (voluntary) executive director of the p.art.ners Berlin-Windhoek gGmbH.

Stefan Schurig, World Future Council Stefan Schurig, born in 1971 in Berlin, is a trained architect. However, he has been working on environmental policies since the early 1990s. Before his transition to the World Future Council in 2007, he was spokesman of Greenpeace Germany where he led the climate and energy department for five years. Meanwhile he also founded and developed one of the first green electricity in Germany, Greenpeace Energy. In 2004, Schurig became a member of the “REALISE-Forum” of the EU Commission which works on assessing the Renewable Energy laws in Europe. As Director Climate Energy of the World Future Council, he has further organized the establishment of an international expert council on sustainable city development. There, Schurig advises worldwide international organizations and members of national parliaments on climate protection and energy policy. In 2009 he became a member of the advisory council of the international climate campaign of the UN- Habitat and is a member of the advisory council on energy of the Internationale Bauausstellung (International Builing Exhibition – IBA).

Oliver Seidel, CITYFÖRSTER

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Oliver Seidel is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of CITYFÖRSTER.Network for Architecture. Before that, he worked as an architect and urban planner with Henning Larsen Architects, Copenhagen, and Beyond Green Design, London, among others. He studied architecture and urban planning at the Leibniz University Hannover, the University of the Arts Berlin, and the Royal Academy of the Arts Copenhagen. In addition to teaching and lecturing at various universities, Oliver Seidel is also active for the Chamber of Architects in and the transdisciplinary think tank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (New Responsibility Foundation).

Peter Smeets, Metropolitan Foodclusters Peter Smeets works at the Metropolitan Foodclusters in Wageningen, The Netherlands. He is a landscape ecologist, spatial planner, innovation manager for the sustainable development of metropolitan foodclusters (scientific cluster for food research), and a process facilitator. His main activities are based in The Netherlands, China, and India. From 1978 onwards he has been working as a landscape ecologist in scientific research and as a planner in the State Forest Agency and the National Planning Agency in The Netherlands. He was an integral manager of Alterras’ Landscape Department between 1996 and 2004. Smeets has authored over 90 publications since 1976.

Belinda Tato, Ecosystema Urbano Belinda Tato Serrano received her architecture degree in 1997 from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK, and in 1999 from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. She is a founding member of Ecosistema Urbano, an innovative agency focused on the understanding of the city as a complex phenomenon, seen from the perspectives of architecture, urbanism, engineering, and sociology. Ecosistema Urbano is also running a platform that develops social networks and manages online channels on creative urban sustainability.

Wolfgang Teubner, ICLEI (International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives) European Secretariat Wolfgang Teubner holds a degree in political science and English literature from the University of Freiburg and has an additional qualification as an EU common market specialist and adviser. He has more than 20 years of professional experience working with local governments on sustainable urban development, waste management, Local Agenda 21, climate protection, and sustainable urban transport policies. He joined ICLEI in 1992. In the period between 1994 and 1999, he coordinated ICLEI’s European Cities for Climate Protection campaign. Since 2010 he has been the Managing Director (CEO) of the ICLEI European Secretariat, which he had already been leading since 2002 in the function of Executive Director.

Christiane Thalgott, Architect, Technical University of Munich Christiane Thalgott, born 1942 in Wrocław, Silesia, studied architecture at the Technical Universities of Braunschweig and Munich, where she worked as a researcher in 1971/1972. Afterwards, she worked as city planner in the planning office Norderstedt. From 1987 to 1992, Thalgott was the Planning Councilor in Kiel and from 1992 to 2007 in Munich. During this time she received a lectureship at the University of Kiel and since 1992 she has lectured at the Technical University of Munich, where she was made honorary professor in 2003. Since 2007 she has worked as a consultant for urban development policies, given speeches on this topic, and is a jury member for several projects. Furthermore, Thalgott is a member of the German Academy for Urban and Regional Spatial Planning (DASL), the Urban Land Institute, the Association of German Architects (BDA), and member of the board of the Federal Association for Residential Property and City Development.

Timon Wehnert, Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT)

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Timon Wehnert, born in 1969, studied physics at the Technical University of Berlin. Since 1999 he has been a researcher at IZT Berlin. He works primarily on topics about sustainable energy economics, with a special focus on local energy strategies, both in Germany and internationally. For the past five years, he has worked on the project “Sustainable Megacities” in Johannesburg, South Africa. Further fields of research are the analysis of potentials for renewable energy supply systems, long-term scenarios for the energy sector, and European energy research policy. Additionally, he works on questions regarding sustainability in development cooperation and aspects of intercultural development in adult education.

Llewellyn Wells, Living City Block Llewellyn Wells is the President and Founder of Living City Block. LCB is currently operating its pilot project in the historic Lower Downtown neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, while launching other projects in Washington DC, Brooklyn, Indianapolis, Durham (NC), Boston, as well as in Santa Marta, Colombia. Living City Block will create a replicable, exportable, scalable, and financially viable framework for the resource-efficient regeneration of existing cities, one block at a time. LCB works in the primarily unattended marketplace of small to medium-sized commercial buildings and the communities they comprise. Prior to founding Living City Block, Wells was the Vice President of Communications at the Rocky Mountain Institute, where Living City Block was initiated. He also spent 24 years working as a highly successful production manager and then producer in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles.

Thomas Wilken, Technical University of Braunschweig Thomas Wilken, born in 1970, studied architecture at the TU Braunschweig. During his studies he focused on sustainable and energy efficient building. For his diploma he developed a plan for the urban expansion of Amsterdam entitled “Living on Water”. Since 2001 he has been a research assistant at the Institute of Building Services and Energy Design at the TU Braunschweig, and since 2010 he is the deputy director of the institute. Apart from his work at the department of architectural teaching for building physics and building services engineering, he works on energy concept at the level of buildings and settlements. He also researches on energy efficiency of non-residential buildings. Since 2003 he has been member of the Architectural Association Lower Saxony. Since 2005 he has also worked as a project engineer at energydesign braunschweig GmbH. He is auditor of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB).

This conference is jointly organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Cooperation partners include the Heinrich Böll Foundation Brandenburg, Bildungswerk Berlin of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT), and ClimatePartner. The conference is supported by METRO AG, the British Council Germany, and with funds from the program "Europe for Citizens" of the European Commission’s project "PUC – Participation in Urban Climate Protection." Media partners are Arch+ and Oekom Verlag. The Szenarium is organized by raumtaktik – office from a better future.

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