Urban Transformations

Marc Wolfram is Director of the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) and full professor for spatial development at Dresden University of Technology. He has an interdisciplinary academic background and extensive experience as a consultant and senior investigator in Europe (2002-2012), doing collaborative research on diverse urban sustainability issues with stakeholders at all levels. He also worked as an associate professor in South Korea (2013-19), pioneering research on transformative urban change dynamics, and advising global city networks, UN bodies and funding agencies. He has published widely in leading journals, and is a board member of the International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS).

Niki Frantzeskaki is Professor on Urban Sustainability Transitions and Director of the Centre for Urban Transitions at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Niki has published close to 100 peer-reviewed articles and in 2017 and 2018 released three books on urban sustainability transitions. She has also edited 15 special issues in top-ranked journals about sustainability and sustainability transitions. She is coordinating research on environmental governance, and urban sustainability transitions by leading and being involved in a portfolio of research projects with research institutes across Europe, Canada, Brazil and Australia. She is actively contributing as an author in CBO, GEO-5, GEO-6 and IPBES assessments.