People for Cities

Hebe Verrest Dr Hebe Verrest directs the Research Masters of Urban Studies program for the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam. As a human geographer, her work focuses on urban development in the Global South, emphasising issues of vulnerability, inequality and exclusion. She has expertise on small...

Helen Millicer Manager of future-focused sustainability programs, board member and consultant across Australia. Delivering strategy, research and communications for government, industry and not-for-profit organisations. Delivering seminars on future challenges and opportunities. Specialist knowledge, skills and networks include waste, recycling, energy, carbon and water challenges and systems. Helen is on several Boards including Australian President ATA...

Helen Scott Helen Scott is a sustainability professional and researcher who is leading a study for the Global Compact Cities Programme focused on city-specific research that provides guidance to city decision-makers about how they can influence the private sector within their borders. She was also the Acting Director of the Cities Programme for a period...

Howard Nielsen Howard Nielsen is an experienced sustainability practitioner and consultant with a reputation for enabling real change in communities and organisations. Howard’s core strength is in designing and facilitating processes which build people’s confidence and capacity to meet the challenges of sustainability. Howard has worked with organisations, communities and businesses in areas which span...

Jane Mullett Jane’s research focus is on adapting critical infrastructure to the changing climate and the role that communicating climate change information plays in developing community resilience. She has a back ground in arts and culture as well as social science. She is a Research Fellow within Engineering (Environmental), RMIT University and Research Coordinator for...

Jay Vigoreaux Jay is the founder and principal of JVA Group, a leading full service architectural, project management and sustainability firm headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He began his career in 1984 working for New York City firms Witthoefft Associates Architects and George Cooper Rudolph III Architects before relocating to Puerto Rico in 1987...

Jesse Blom Jesse Blom is a passionate and highly skilled urban agriculture advocate and practitioner and more recently, freshwater specialist. He is currently holds the position of Program Manager at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future in Baltimore, MD, USA. He is developing an educational program on food systems, using an urban agriculture...

John Fein Professor John Fein has three related interests in urban research, all focused on ways of enriching the concept and experience of urban democracy. First, he is researching community-based leadership in urban projects and the roles local government can play in promoting this. Second the community-directed projects that can flow from this enriches social...

John Smithies John Smithies has been Director of Cultural Development Network (CDN) since 2005. CDN is an association of local government arts and community development workers, artists, academics and policy writers. CDN advocates for a cultural perspective when developing policies that impact on changing communities. John studied at the Tasmanian School of Art, the South...

Josef Konvitz Professor Josef Konvitz joined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 1992 after spending nearly 20 years at the History Faculty of Michigan State University. He led the OECD’s work on urban policy from 1992 to 2003. As Head of Regulatory Policy from 2003 until his retirement in 2011, Professor Konvitz...