Alfredo Brillembourg, Founder of UTT, Venezuela

Alfredo Brillembourg is the Director of Urban Think Tank based in Venezuela. Born in New York in 1961, he furnished an architectural education with a Bachelor of Art and Architecture and a Master of Science in Architectural Design from Columbia University. In 1992 he received a second architecture degree from The Central University of Venezuela and began his independent architecture practice. In 1993, he set up the Urban Think Tank in Caracas, Venezuela. Since 1994, he is a member of the Venezuelan Architects and Engineers Association and has been a guest professor at the University Jose Maria Vargas, the University Simon Bolivar and at the Central University in Venezuela. He has also been a regular guest at studio juries in The Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University and The Cooper Union School for the Advancement of Science and Art. He has lectured on architecture at conferences in Boston, Berlin, Caracas, Miami and Switzerland.

Aromar Revi,
Director of TARU, India

Aromar Revi* is a founding Director of TARU, a South Asian research consulting firm. He is a researcher, international consultant and practitioner with extensive inter-disciplinary experience in public policy, development, technology and sustainability. He has lectured and taught widely in India and the West. He has been a senior advisor to various ministries of the Government of India and has consulted with a wide range of institutions including the World Bank, UNEP, UNU and DFID. Formally trained as a technologist, lawyer, management and finance specialist, in the 1980s he was one of the first researchers from the Asiatic region to apply ecological systems analysis and design methods to the then fuzzy concept of sustainability.

Eyal Weizman

Eyal Weizman is the director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He studied at the Architectural Association in London and completed his Ph.D. at the London Consortium, Birkbeck College. Since 2008 he is a member of B'Tselem Managing Board. Weizman has taught, lectured, curated and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Inflexion Journal and is an Editor-at-large for Cabinet Magazine (New York). Weizman was the recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize for 2006-2007.

Romi Khosla

Romi Khosla is an architect and urban planner based in Delhi. Graduating in Economics from Cambridge University he worked with Price Waterhouse in London. He furthered this with a degree from the Architectural Association, London. As a principal International consultant to the UNDP, UNESCO, UNOPS and WTO, he has spent considerable time initiating development projects linked to urban renewal in the Balkans, Palestine, Tibet, Central Asia, Cyprus, and China.

Farid Esmaeil

Farid Esmaeil is the founding partner of X-Architects, a leading architecture and urban design practice in Dubai. He graduated from the American University of Sharjah(AUS) in 2003. His design work addresses issues of contemporary society, urban identity, and architecture. Farid has been the driving force in conceptual projects such as 'Xeritown' , a 60-hectare sustainable city in Dubai, and 'Al Nasseem' a 12-hectare community development in Al-Ain. Farid has lectured and exhibited work in various universities and institutions worldwide, including Venice Biennale 2008, AUS, Technical University [TU] Berlin, AIA Berlin 2002, and Archiprix International Architecture Thesis Program. His design work include awards such as the regional Holcim Award 2008, and cityscape awards 2008 Dubai.

Lawrence Barth

Lawrence Barth is the core faculty member of both the Landscape Urbanism and Housing & Urbanism Programmes at the Architectural Association, London. His published writings draw the two fields together theoretically and practically. His academic interests revolve around the intersection of urbanism, design, and development strategies. Barth is also a consultant urbanist, collaborating regularly with architects and engineers on urban-scale projects, including the urban strategies for Zaha Hadid's one-north Masterplan in Singapore as well as her masterplans for the Zorrozaurre and Olabeaga districts in Bilbao, Spain. He is currently involved in additional funded research on design and planning for future urban intensification in England, and participates in an international research network on Metropolitan Hubs and Regions, Innovation Environments and Governance in Knowledge-Based Societies.