Our People

Brendan Barrett holds the position of Research Coordinator with the UN Global Compact – Cities Programme. His role is to lead the programme’s research activities and assist the city participants in their advancement of the Ten Principles. This includes drawing on the urban expertise of RMIT University faculty, partners and Cities Programme Global Advisors...

Angela is an Architect and Urban Planner. She undertook a research internship with the Global Compact Cities Programme from February to September 2015, during which time she worked on analysis of the results of the inaugural Global Compact City Scan. Angela holds a Master of Urbanism degree and a Technology in Sustainable Development Specialisation from...

Gary Gannon co-founded and manages Visual Life Web, an organisation dedicated to helping improve the process of scientific collaboration in support of environmental, political and economic decision-making. He is an Advisory Board Member of Gaia Metrics, a company focused on providing a set of solutions and methodologies that will help value cultural, political, environmental...

RMIT is a global university of technology, design and enterprise, Australia’s largest tertiary institution and the UN Global Compact – Cities Programme’s lead partner and supporter. The International Secretariat of the UN Global Compact – Cities Programme is hosted by RMIT’s Research and Innovation Portfolio located in the University’s city campus in Melbourne. The University...

Michael Young is an international development practitioner with 20 years experience working in over 40 countries with multi and bi-lateral donors; private and public sectors; and humanitarian agencies and NGOs. Contracted as a Team Leader, Program Manager and adviser, Michael has extensive experience in managing large and dispersed teams of multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural staff in...

Alberto Posso is an Associate Professor of Economics at the International Trade and Development Research Group in the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), where he has been employed since 2009. Alberto holds a PhD in Economics from the Australian National University (ANU) with specializations in labour economics, development, and applied econometrics. His work aims...