Judith Ryser 
Arch.dipl. EPF-L/SIA, MSc(Hons) UCL, MCIoJ, UDG, SilkCities, ARLab, Fundacion Metropoli, ISOCARP

Qualified as architect and urbanist with an MSc in social sciences, she is dedicating her cosmopolitan professional life to a sustainable built environment. Her research, writing, teaching and reviewing is focusing on cities in the knowledge society, carried out in London, Paris, Berlin, Geneva (United Nations), Stockholm, Brussels and Madrid.

She is a life member of ISOCARP, where she served as Vice-President, General Rapporteur of the 50th anniversary congress 2015, editor and writer of several publications: the latest “ISOCARP, 50 Years of Knowledge Creation and Sharing”, 6th edition of the “International Manual of Planning Practice” with Teresa Franchini, and “Cities Save the World, Let’s Reinvent Planning”, proceedings of the 2015 congress.

She is a senior advisor of Fundacion Metropoli, has written and edited many books for them and participated in urban projects; a member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists; on the editorial team of CORP (International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society); senior adviser of Silk-Cities co-editing books and mentoring authors; book review editor of the Urban Design Group; on various scientific committees; and contributes keynote addresses and papers to international conferences. She was teaching at University College London, the Architectural Association and other universities, continues to teach and mentor young planners, assisting them in academic paper writing, dissemination and editing She is a long standing activist for community-led urban transformation and currently working on a book on “Drivers of Urban Change, People’s Perspectives”.

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