First Director General, Directorate-General for Regional Planning and Urban Development Hamburg
First Director General Susanne Metz is Head of the Directorate General for Regional and Urban Planning as part of the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, City State of Hamburg, Germany.
She gained her Diploma as an urban and landscape planner at the Technical University of Hannover and added an administrative clerkship in the State of Hessia. As an experienced project manager in landscape planning she joined the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park GmbH (IBA), Gelsenkirchen, where she signed in as Head of division for Emscher Landscape Park.
Following new forms of interdisciplinary and integrated planning she worked for the state agency for ecology, land use and forestry Landesanstalt für Ökologie, Landschaftsentwicklung und Forstplanung, State of North Rhine-Westfalia (LÖLF).
Switching to the municipal planning sector, she was with City Planning Department, City of Frankfurt am Main – as Executive Head of Landscape Planning and Ecology, later on Executive Head of Urban Development Planning and member of GreenBelt Frankfurt a. M. She then moved on to City Planning Department, City of Mannheim – as Executive Head of Urban Development and Statistics. These were ways to perform both: open space and urban density concepts.
Susanne Metz is member of Akademie für Raumordnung und Landesplanung, LAG Nord. She also is active in the field of consulting and training such as with Institut für Städtebau Berlin / DASL, with professional associations and with developmental projects in the non-government sector as of Philippine Grassroots Engagement in Rural Development Foundation PhilGERFund, Philippines.