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Vice President for Civic Engagement and External Affairs, University of Chicago

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Areas of Interest

• Development
• Education
• International

About

Derek Douglas is Vice President for Civic Engagement and External Affairs at the University of Chicago. Douglasleads the University's local, national, and international urban development and civic engagement efforts. He also spearheads the University's efforts to work in partnership with the surrounding South Side neighborhoods, city, region, nation, and globe to advance urban economic development, enhance the quality of life for residents, and enrich the work of University faculty and students through research, education, and direct engagement. Previously, Douglas served as Special Assistant to President Barack Obama on the White House Domestic Policy Council (DPC) where he served as the principal architect of President Obama’s agenda to strengthen our nation’s cities and metropolitan regions.

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• Weitzman School of Design
• Department of City and Regional Planning

Areas of Interest

• Climate Change
• International
• Urban and Regional Planning

About

Sam Geldin is a Postdoctoral Research at thePenn Institute for Urban Research. He got his PhD from theDepartment of City and Regional Planning with interests in climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and urban governance in the Global South. He is particularly passionate about enhancing subnational climate action efforts through policy, planning, and comparative urban studies. Sam previously supported two transnational climate action networks, policy formulation in the California Governor’s Office of Planning, and a research initiative facilitated by the UNFCCC Secretariat. He holds an MSc in Environmental Science from Yale, where his master’s thesis investigated the diffusion of adaptation practices through city networks in Indonesia. He also holds a BS in Environmental Science and a BA in Geography from UCLA.

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Professor of French and Francophone Studies

FIGS Department Chair

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• School of Arts and Sciences
• Department of Romance Languages

Areas of Interest

• International
• Literature
• Violence

About

Andrea Goulet is Professor of Romance Languages in the School of Arts and Sciences. Prior to coming to Penn, she served as Associate Professor of French at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of two books on French fiction and literature. Her current research interests include 19th and 20th century French fiction, critical theory, science and literature, detective fiction, and nouveau roman literature. She is currently co-chair of the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association.

Selected Publications

Goulet, Andrea. Forthcoming. “Teaching Les Misérables: Crime and the Popular Press.” In MLA Approaches to Teaching Hugo’s Les Misérables, edited by Michal Ginsburg and Bradley Stephens.

Goulet, Andrea. 2016. Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Space and Science in French Crime Fiction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Goulet, Andrea. 2016. “Du massacre de la rue Transnonain aux ‘drames de la rue: Politique et théâtre de l’espace.” Romantisme 171(2016): 53-64.

Goulet, Andrea. 2006. Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Associate Professor of Practice, City and Regional Planning

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School/Department

• Weitzman School of Design
• Department of Landscape Architecture

Areas of Interest

• Architecture
• International
• Sustainability

About

David Gouverneur is Associate Professor of Practice, City and Regional Planning. Previously, he was the Chair of the School of Architecture and Professor in the Departments of Architecture, and City and Regional Planning at Universidad Simón Bolívar;Director of Urban Development of Venezuela; Co-founder and Professor of the Urban Design program, and Director of the Mayor’s Institute in Urban Design at Universidad Metropolitana, in Caracas. He is the two-timerecipient of the G. Holmes Perkins Award for distinguished teaching at PennDesign andco-recipient of the Venezuelan National Architecture award in 2000 and in 2016. His professional practice focuses on improvement of existing informal settlements, the rehabilitation of areas affected by extraordinary natural events, areas of new centralities, new mixed-use districts, and the rehabilitation of cultural landscapes. His main area of research focuses on the notion of Informal Armatures, a method to address the rampant Self-Constructed urbanization, the dominant urban form in many countries of the Global South. He has lectured extensively, written articles and organized seminars and workshops, particularly in Latin America. He received hisM.Arch in Urban Design from Harvard University (1980), and B.Arch from the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela (1977).

Selected Publications

Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements: Shaping the Self-Constructed City. Routledge 2014.

El diseño de nuevos asentamientos informales. Universidad de La Salle/Universidad Eafit, Colombia, 2016

Editor of Revisiting Urban Renewal: Alternatives for Public Housing in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. PennDesign/Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2012

Co author of: The Rehabilitation of the Littoral Central, Venezuela, with the support of Universidad Metropolitana/Harvard University,Toddman Editores, Caracas, 2000.

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PhD Candidate, Applied Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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Areas of Interest

• Economics
• Finance
• International

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Ben Hyman is a doctoral candidate in Applied Economics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, affiliated with the Departments of Business Economics & Public Policy and Real Estate. Ben’s research interests span the fields of public finance, local labor markets, urban economics, and international trade. Ben received his B.A. (Honors) from the University of Southern California (USC), and holds an M.C.P. with a concentration in urban and regional economics from MIT. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a research associate with MIT’s poverty action lab (J-PAL). Ben’s current research focuses on two streams of work. The first concerns whether worker re-training programs help mitigate the adverse effects of local labor market disruptions. The second agenda studies the effects of state and local tax credit incentives on firm behavior and labor demand.

Selected Publications

Can Displaced Labor be Retrained? Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignmentto Trade Adjustment Assistance (2017) [Work-in-progress]

Firm Mobility and the Economic Development Effects of Location Subsidies: Evidence from a Large-Scale Tax Credit Lottery (2017)[Work-in-progress]

Harrison, A., Hyman, B., Martin, L., & Nataraj, S. (2015).When do Firms Go Green? Comparing Price Incentives with Command and Control Regulations in India(No. w21763). National Bureau of Economic Research.

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United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN-Habitat

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Areas of Interest

• Development
• International
• Policy

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Dr. Aisa Kirabo Kacyira of the Republic of Rwanda is the Deputy Executive Director of UN-Habitat and United Nations Assistant Secretary-General providing critical leadership to promote sustainable cities and human settlements globally. Previously, Dr. Kacyira held various government positions including as Governor of the Eastern Province of Rwanda, Mayor of Kigali and an Elected Member of Parliament. Dr. Kacyira is also a former President of the Rwanda Association of Local Government Authorities, former President of the Eastern African Association of Local Government Authorities, and former Vice President of the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa.

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Starr Foundation South Asia Studies Professor

Director of Asia Programs, Johns Hopkins University

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School/Department

• School of Arts and Sciences
• Department of Political Science

Areas of Interest

• Development
• International
• Politics

About

Devesh Kapur is Starr Foundation South Asia Studies Professor and Director of Asia Programs for Johns Hopkins University. He is formerly the Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India and Professor of Political Science in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to arriving at Penn, Kapur was Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, and before that the Frederick Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard. His research focuses on human capital, national and international public institutions, and the ways in which local-global linkages, especially international migration and international institutions, affect political and economic change in developing countries, especially India.

Selected Publications

Kapur, Devesh, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and Milan Vaishnav, eds. 2017. Rethinking Public Institutions in India. Oxford University Press.

Kapur, Devesh, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, eds.2017. Navigating the Labyrinth: Perspectives on India’s Higher Education. Orient BlackSwan.

Chakravorty, Sanjoy, Devesh Kapur, Nirvikar Singh. 2016. The Other One Percent: Indians in America. Oxford University Press.

Kapur, Devesh, D. Shyam Babu, and Chandra Bhan Prasad. 2014.Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs. Random House India.

Kapur, Devesh. 2010. Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India. Princeton University Press.

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Doctoral Student, City and Regional Planning

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School/Department

• Weitzman School of Design
• Department of City and Regional Planning

Areas of Interest

• Development
• International
• Urban and Regional Planning

About

Chaeri Kim is a doctoral student in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on sustainable design. Prior to coming to the University of Pennslyvania, she worked at an architectural design firm and as a real estate investment analyst. She received herMaster of Science in Real Estate from New York University and her B.A. in English Literature, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

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Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo

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Areas of Interest

• Development
• International
• Sociology/Anthropology

About

Christian Krohn-Hansen is Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo in Norway. Krohn-Hansen is currently the department’s Vice Chair and Head of the doctoral program. He also is a member of the steering committee of the interdisciplinary research area Livelihoods in Developing Countries (LEVE) at the university and a member of the advisory board of Ethnos. Krohn-Hansen’s research interests include the anthropology of politics, economic anthropology, urban ethnography, and regional and international migration and span the Caribbean, Latin America, and New York. He has performed long-term fieldwork in the southwestern Dominican Republic in close proximity to the border with Haiti, and in northeastern Colombia.

Selected Publications

Krohn-Hansen, Christian. 2015. “Political Anthropology.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd Edition), James D. Wright, ed. Oxford: Elsevier Ltd.

Krohn-Hansen, Christian. 2013. Making New York Dominican: Small Business, Politics, and Everyday Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Krohn-Hansen, Christian. 2007. “The Understanding of Migration and the Discourse of Nationalism: Dominicans in New York City.” In Holding Worlds Together: Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging, 77-102, Marianne Lien and Marit Melhuus, eds.. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

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Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor

Chair of Fine Arts

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School/Department

• Weitzman School of Design
• Department of Fine Arts

Areas of Interest

• Art
• Culture
• International

About

Ken Lum is theMarilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor at the Department of Fine Arts at theWeitzman School of Design. Prior to coming to Penn, Lum wasHead of the Graduate Program in Studio Art at the University of British Columbia, Visiting Professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and Graduate Professor at the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College. He is co-founder and founding Editor of Yishu: The Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. Lum was made a Guggenheim Fellow in 1999 and awarded a Killam Award for Outstanding Research in 1998 and the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award in 2007. He has served on the Board of Directors for the The PowerPlant (Toronto),Annie Wong Art Foundation (Hong Kong),Arts Initiative Tokyo, and Centre A (Vancouver). He was co-curator ofShanghai Modern: 1919-1945andSharjah Biennial 7.He recently co-curatedMonument Lab: A Public Art and History Projectin Philadelphia.

Selected Publications

Lum, Ken. 2016. “The Figure in the Carpet.” Catalog essay for the exhibition Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists, curated by Dr. Cornelia Lauf for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland.

Lum, Ken. 2009. “Dear Steven.” In Art School: (Propositions for the 21st Century), edited by Steven Madoff. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Lum, Ken and Hubert Damisch. 2008. Ultimo Bagaglio. Paris: Three Star Books.

Lum, Ken. 1999. “Canadian Cultural Policy: A Metaphysical Problem.” In Conference 1: Inside Out: Reassessing International Cultural Influence. Wroclaw, Poland: Apexart.

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Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design

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School/Department

• Weitzman School of Design

Areas of Interest

• Architecture
• Development
• International

About

Christopher Marcinkoski is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design in the School of Design. He is a licensed architect and founding director of PORT A+U, a leading-edge urban design consultancy with ongoing projects in Denver, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland and Philadelphia. Prior to his appointment at Penn, Marcinkoski was a senior associate at James Corner Field Operations in New York where he led that office’s large-scale urban design work including the QianHai Water City in Shenzhen and Shelby Farms Park in Memphis. Marcinkoski’s current research uses the urbanistic crisis that emerged in Spain over the first decade of the 21st century as a platform for considering the increasingly speculative nature of contemporary urbanization, and in particular, the disciplinary implications for the design and planning professions engaged in the work that comprises this phenomenon.

Selected Publications

Marcinkoski, C. 2016. The City That Never Was: Reconsidering the Speculative Nature of Contemporary Urbanization. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press.

Marcinkoski, C. 2014. “Notes on the Horizontal: Landscape-Driven Strategies for the Vertical Cities Challenge.” 2013 Vertical Cities Asia International Design Competition + Symposium. National University of Singapore and World Future Foundation.

Marcinkoski, C. 2013. “Re-Cultivating the Forest City.” American Collegiate Schools of Architecture 101st Annual Conference.

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Global Chief Heat Officer, UN Habitat

Areas of Interest

• Climate Change
• Environment
• International

About

Eleni “Lenio” MyriviliisGlobal Chief Heat Officerto UN Habitat andtheArsht Rock Resilience Center,building heat resilience incities around the world. Myrivili issenior advisor for urban heat and a senior fellow at the Arsht-Rock Center at the Atlantic Council. She isalsoa member of the EU Mission Board for Adaptation at the European Commission.Myrivili served as electedDeputyMayorfor the City of Athens as well as Athens’ Chief Resilience Officer and as Athens’ Chief Heat Officer. She alsoco-chairedthe Resilience Cities NetworkSteering Committee.She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University and was a tenured professor for over a decade.