Mar 29, 2017
Adrian is a global thought leader in international arts and culture whose work spans the fields of cultural strategy, policy, and economics. He is the founding director of AEA Consulting and director of the Global Cultural Districts Network, an initiative of AEA and the NewCities. Adrian is a noted speaker and writer who has been…
Mar 29, 2017
Stéphanie Grandperret joined NewCities in 2012 and acts as Chief Operating Officer. In this role, she directs the finance, operational, legal, HR and administrative activities of every NewCities entity. She also works on memberships and partnerships.
Mar 29, 2017
As NewCities Communications Director, Thomas tells the Foundation’s story, with a focus on digital platforms and building engagement. With the communications team, he will also be working with the Foundation’s network of startups, social innovators, large companies and city governments to tell stories of urban innovation. Thomas is a long-time journalist turned communications strategist with…
Mar 29, 2017
Olivia is the Deputy Executive Director of NewCities as well as the Director of Research and Events. In this role she has dual-responsibilities; directing the research ventures, including fellowships and pilot projects of the Foundation, as well as the design and management of the thought-leadership events and workshops that discuss and disseminate best practices in…
Mar 29, 2017
Greg Lindsay joined NewCities in June 2015 as Senior Fellow. Greg is a journalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative, a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, and urbanist-in-residence at URBAN-X, a startup accelerator founded…
Mar 29, 2017
Clifford Winston is an applied microeconomist who specializes in the analysis of industrial organization, regulation, and transportation. Winston has also been co-editor of the annual microeconomics edition of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
Mar 29, 2017
Andy Merritt is a co founder and director at Makerversity and more specifically helps head the spacial design and logistics of the space. Makerversity started as a work and education space for start-up making businesses, and applied learning opportunities. At our Somerset House home in central London we provide access to a range of fabrication…
Mar 29, 2017
Dr. Anthony Townsend is an urban planner and forecaster whose writing, public speaking, activism and consulting focus on urbanization, ubiquitous computing and technology-led innovation and economic development.
Mar 29, 2017
Matthew Christensen is the former Managing Editor of Bikeshare.com and specializes in bicycle and bikesharing research and planning. He joined the Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC), University of California, Berkeley in 2014.
Mar 29, 2017
Susan Shaheen is an adjunct professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and an associate research engineer at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Mar 29, 2017
Bruno Marzloff, sociologist and futurist, has coordinated Groupe Chronos for the last 15 years – a laboratory of innovative mobilities bringing together transportation stakeholders, thought leaders, the media, and a wide variety of urban actors.
Mar 29, 2017
Timothy grew up in Paris, and after obtaining his BA in History and Politics at the University of York in England, he spent two years working in Spain and London. He then studied for a research degree at the University of Oxford. Having graduated with an M.Phil in 2013, he joined PublicisLive. A history enthusiast,…
