URBAN FUTURES - Key Persons

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• Member of the Board of Directors
• Chairman of the Social Democrats
• Member of the Swedish Parliament

Anna Johansson is a member of the Swedish Parliament and from 2014-2017 was Minister of Infrastructure, with responsibility for transportation and infrastructure issues. She has a background as Chair of the Board of the Gothenburg-based and municipal real-estate company Bostadsbolaget between 2007-2011 as well as for Got Event, the municipal-owned company responsible for arranging events. From 1997-2002 Anna Johansson worked as a project leader at The Swedish Trade Union Confederation, LO. Her political career started in 1995 as a Member of the City District Committee in Bergsjön, Göteborg Shortly thereafter she was elected and took a seat in the Gothenburg City Council, where she stayed until appointed national Minister of Infrastructure in 2014. Since 2007 Anna Johansson has been the Chair of the Social Democrats in Gothenburg. Between 2003 and 2009 she was an Ombudsman at the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, LO in Gothenburg. During the same period Anna Johansson was Chair of the City District Committee of Bergsjön in Gothenburg. From 2009-2014 she was Alternate Member of the City Executive Board in Gothenburg with responsibility for the areas of preschool/school, children/youth and leisure issues. In addition, Anna Johansson has had a range of different political assignments in Gothenburg. She has also been a member of Chalmers University of Technology Board as well as the Board for Alfons Åbergs kulturhus, a culture house devoted to the children's book character, Alfons Åberg.

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• Local Interaction Platform Director

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• Member of the Board of Directors

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• Local Interaction Platform Director

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• Member of the Board of Directors
• Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture
• Visiting Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg

Dr. Caroline Wanjiku Kihato Visiting Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg. In 2011, she received a MacArthur grant on Migration and Development and spent a year as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM), Georgetown University, Washington DC.

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• Local Interaction Platform Director

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• Member of the Board of Directors
• Vice President
• Chairman of the Board, Vice President of Utilisation at Chalmers University of Technology.

Olivia Bina, Principal researcher and Deputy Director at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, and adjunct assistant professor at the Dept of Geography and Resource Management at the Chinese University in Hong Kong Fredrik Hörstedt is Vice President for utilisation and collaboration with business and the surrounding society at Chalmers University of Technology. He holds the overall responsibility for Chalmers' innovation ecosystem including venture creation, research institutes, innovation advisors and science parks. He holds the overall responsibility for Chalmers' interfaces towards business, public authorities and politics at the local, regional, national and international levels. He holds the responsibility of sustainable development among the vice presidents. He is the chair of the board directors of Chalmers Professional Education and is overall responsible for Chalmers' engagements in the European Institute of Technology' KIC-programs at Chalmers. He serves as a board member of Chalmers Innovation and Chalmers Innovation Seed Fund. He is a member of the election committees of Johanneberg Science Park, Lindholmen Science Park, Sahlgrenska Science Park and Vinnova's strategic innovation program SIO Grafen. He is a member of the board of directors of EIT Manufacturing, a 450 MEUR program of the European Institute of Technology. He is a member of the expert group for collaboration at The Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions. He is a member of the board of directors of the Testbädd Göteborg initiative by the City of Gothenburg, RISE, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers. He is a member of the board of directors of KLOSS-net, the association of university vice presidents for utilisation and collaboration in Sweden, and a member of the board of directors of Connect Väst. He chairs the board of directors of Konsert Strategy & IP AB. His previous roles includes Head of Innovation in the Graphene Flagship, a European Commission funded research project of 1 bEUR, during its ramp-up phase and lead the development of the innovation management approach now implemented. For three years he was a member of the Future Emerging Technologies Advisory Group, advising the European Commission on disruptive technologies and innovation. He was formerly the President and CEO of a research institute group and Managing Director Deputy of a professional development company. He has 25 years of experience at the academy-industry interface. He holds a Ph.D. in Technology Management from Chalmers University of Technology.

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• Ecologist and Associate Professor in Natural Resource Management at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economy

Johan Colding, Ecologist and Associate Professor in Natural Resource Management at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economy, johan.colding@beijer.kva.se, +46 (0) 76 277 0610

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• Member of the Board of Directors
• Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs

John Robinson, Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and the School of Environment at the University of Toronto, an Honorary Professor with the Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, and an Adjunct Professor with the Copenhagen Business School. John Robinson is a Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs, and the School of the Environment, at the University of Toronto; an Honorary Professor with the Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability at The University of British Columbia; and an Adjunct Professor with the Copenhagen Business School, where he is leading the sustainability component of their campus redevelopment process. Prof. Robinson's research focuses on the intersection of climate change mitigation, adaptation and sustainability; the use of visualization, modeling, and citizen engagement to explore sustainable futures; sustainable buildings and urban design; creating partnerships for sustainability with non-academic partners; and, generally, the intersection of sustainability, social and technological change, behaviour change, and community engagement processes. In 2012 Dr. Robinson received the Metro Vancouver Architecture Canada Architecture Advocacy Award and was named Environmental Scientist of the Year by Canadian Geographic magazine. In 2011, he received the Canada Green Building Council Education Leadership Award, and in 2010 he was given BC Hydro's Larry Bell Award for advancing energy conservation in British Columbia. He was a Fellow of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation from 2008-11, and, as a Lead Author, he contributed to the 1995, 2001 and 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Al Gore.

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• Architect and Professor in Urban Design at KTH School of Architecture

Lars Marcus, Architect and professor in Urban Design at KTH School of Architecture, lars.marcus@arch.kth.se,

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• Member of the Board of Directors
• Research Fellow
• Visiting Professor

Lyla Mehta, Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK, and a Visiting Professor at Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

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• Deputy Director and Urban Planner at the City Planning Administration, Stockholm

Niklas Svensson, Deputy Director and Urban Planner at the City Planning Administration, Stockholm, niklas.svensson@stockholm.se, +46 (0) 12 27 247

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• Member of the Board of Directors
• Principal Researcher and Deputy
• Principal Researcher and Deputy Director at the Institute of Social Sciences
• Sustainability and Socio

Olivia Bina, Principal researcher and Deputy Director at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, and adjunct assistant professor at the Dept of Geography and Resource Management at the Chinese University in Hong Kong Olivia Bina is a Principal Researcher and Deputy Director at the Institute of Social Sciences (University of Lisbon) and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and Resource Management (Chinese University of Hong Kong). Her research critically examines the changing notion of sustainability and the need to define the key elements of sustainable futures, especially in the expanding urban contexts. Olivia Bina has a longstanding interest in understanding our changing relationship with Nature, and how that is at the origin of the many challenges facing the 21st century. She sees herself as an interdisciplinary ‘policy-engaged' researcher, trying to wrestle with challenges of the (un)sustainability of our socio-economic model and its effect on our quality of life, through the lens of environmental governance, sustainable development and transitions theories. The general idea is to assist in efforts towards progress beyond growth. Olivia Bina's work combines sustainability and socio-economic transitions theory with environmental governance. She has researched and published widely in the field of environmental governance, contributing ideas to its theory and mechanisms (assessment, policy processes; knowledge and policy learning), in different contexts (Europe, Latin America and China). Having studied and experienced the limits of ‘better governance' to pursue more sustainable futures, Dr Bina is now exploring notions of progress and sustainability by questioning the paradigm of growth, including the (re)turning ideas of "greening" growth in economics and international development discourses. She also questions the propositions for "green/eco/low-carbon" at the urban scale and is interested in foresight as governance mechanism, both in relation to socio-economic questions, and in terms of urban futures. Olivia Bina's longstanding commitment to the effective use of interdisciplinarity in research has led her to Chair the COST Action: INTREPID - "Interdisciplinarity in research programming and funding: the case of urban development". She holds a degree in Political Sciences (Italy), a Masters in Environment and Development and a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge (England).

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• Director
• Director, Mistra

Prof. David Simon, Director Mistra Urban Futures, david.simon@chalmers.se , +46 (0)31 772 4930

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• Ecologist and Doctor in Natural Resource Management at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University

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• Local Interaction Platform Director

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• Member of the Board of Directors
• Member of the Board of Östersjöstiftelsen and Member of the Royal Swedish
• Professor
• Professor in Natural Resource Management at Stockholm Resilience Centre
• Theme Leader, Urban Social - Ecological Systems and Globalization. Stockholm Resilience Centre

Thomas Elmqvist is a professor in Natural Resource Management at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. His research is focused on urbanization, ecosystem services, land use change, natural disturbances and components of resilience including the role of social institutions. At Stockholm Resilience Centre he has been part of building the Urban Research theme and the Resilience and Development research agenda. Prior to that Thomas worked as a Scientific Research Director at Swedish Biodiversity Centre in Uppsala, Sweden. He coordinated a major urban research project in metropolitan Stockholm which was part of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, he was coordinating lead author in the The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) project, the study leader of the UN project "Cities and Biodiversity Outlook" and leading several large European projects on urban social-ecological systems. He is currently leading the interdisciplinary project "Urban Planet" as part of Future Earth. Thomas is member of the board of Östersjöstiftelsen and Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. He is also a Visiting Professor at Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science at the University of Tokyo, Japan; a Fellow at Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies (STIAS), South Africa as well as an Adjunct Professor, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, USA.

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• Secretary

Job Titles:

• Local Interaction Platform Director