FORMER MAYOR OF CITY OF OLDENBURG Prof. Dr. med. Gerd Schwandner was the directly elected Mayor of the city of Oldenburg in northwest Germany (2006 – 2014). He originally studied Medicine, Education, German Philology and Art History at the Universities of Heidelberg and Düsseldorf. He obtained his MedD in 1977 and worked as surgeon at
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT AND OWNER OF GRONARE STAD AB (GREENER CITY INC.) Louise Lundberg is a landscape architect and owner of the company Grönare Stad AB (Greener City Inc.). She designs, plans, installs and maintains green roofs, gardens and urban farming projects, including aquaponics and works internationally as lecturer on sustainable city development. In 2013, she
PROJECT MANAGER, HELSINKI REGION INFOSHARE Tanja Lahti is Project Manager in the regional open data service called Helsinki Region Infoshare (www.hri.fi).HRI service provides over 1100 different public data sets regarding the Helsinki Metropolitan Area as open data. She is a Master of Administrative Sciences (Regional Studies) from University of Tampere, Finland. She has worked for
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF EDUCORE OF AMSTERDAM As founder and director of Educore BV (1991), Hank Kune has specialized in working with diverse corporate and government organizations in projects about innovation and organizational renewal, with a special emphasis on hands-on problem solving in complex social, societal and organisational situations. The objective of much of this
VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND CIVIL ENGINEERING, CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Dr. Krakhofer is a qualified Building Engineer, registered Architect, passionate Software Developer and enthusiastic Educator. He has designed and built in America, Europe and Asia, ranging from furniture & interiors to mixed-use development & master-plans. His work has been published in
MANAGING DIRECTOR & PARTNER, BAUMSCHLAGER EBERLE LTD., HONG KONG Dr.Jia is managing director and partner in the Baumschlager Eberle Hong Kong office. As one of the key members of BE he participated in design projects and supervised building construction in China. Since 1996 he is an associate professor in Architecture Design, Housing and History at the
PROGRAMME COORDINATOR OF THE EUROPEAN UNION ACADEMIC PROGRAMME HONG KONG Martin Ho is the Programme Coordinator of the European Union Academic Programme Hong Kong. He graduated from L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg with a Master in Politiques européennes specialized in European Politics, Martin has then been working in the field of education.Before joining the EUAP
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE EUROPEAN UNION ACADEMIC PROGRAMME HONG KONG ASSOCIATE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY H. Werner Hess is Deputy Director of the EUAP and Professor of European Studies at the Department of GIS at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is a graduate of the John F.
DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, CITY OF AMSTERDAM Frank van Erkel is currently working for the municipality of Amsterdam as director of Organizational Development. He is leading different international workshops on societal innovation and very active on community building. Until 2013 he was the City-manager of the Amsterdam East-district (120.000 inhabitants, 1000 employees). He is a certified
PROFESSOR FOR ARCITECTURAL AND DESIGN OF ETH ZURICH Prof. Dr. Dietmar Eberle is Professor for Architecture and Design at the ETH Zürich. He is also partner of the architectural firm BE (Baumschlager Eberle) with offices in Vienna, Vaduz (Liechtenstein), Zurich and St. Gallen (Switzerland), Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Hanoi, Beijing and Hong Kong. The BE group is renowned