Hassan Radoine

Director of the School of Architecture, Planning and Design (SAP+D) at the Polytechnic University (UM6P) of Benguerir - Morocco

Hassan Radoine is an architecture curator, critic, author and consultant. He is currently the Director of the School of Architecture, Planning and Design at the Polytechnic University of Benguerir, Morocco. He was previously the director of the Ecole Nationale d’Architecture in Morocco and the Head of the Architecture Department at University of Sharjah, UAE. His research and practice interests include Smart and sustainable Urban Planning, Urban Conservation & Development, Smart and resilient human establishments, Sustainable Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in the MENA region.

Hassan holds an MPhil. degree in Planning, Growth and Regeneration from the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK where he was a Commonwealth Shared Scholar; an Architecture Diploma from the National School of Architecture, Rabat, Morocco where he was a Joint Ghana - Morocco Government Scholar. He has previously practised in Rabat with Atelier Sens-Espace and in Accra with Mawums Ltd, Incept Architectural Consult as well as with Atelier VI Design and Build

Patrizia Ingallina

Professor of Spatial Planning and Urbanism

Patrizia Ingalina is an architect and state planner in Italy since 1982, attached to the teaching at the University of Florence between 1982 and 1985, I obtained my PhD in Geography and Spatial Planning at Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne in 1993.

As a lecturer at the Institut d'Urbanisme de Paris, from 1995 to 2007, she was able to set up the first courses on the urban project, her main research subject. She then joined the University of Lille as a Professor, and then Sorbonne University in 2013, where she currently directs the Master's degree in Urban Planning and Development.

She has carried out her academic career in parallel with her professional activity: first in Florence with design offices, architectural agencies, but also with the Direction du Patrimoine as an architect of historical monuments; then in Paris in architectural agencies and design offices.

With a background in research, higher education and professional activities, the professor is now committed to promoting dialogue between professionals and the academic world. This priority has led to the involvement of AREP, Resillience, EMBIX and Icade through a skills sponsorship by the Sorbonne University Foundation.

Kenneth Amaeshi

Professor of Spatial Planning and Urbanism

Kenneth Amaeshi is a Professor of Sustainable Finance and Governance at the School of Transnational Governance. He is currently on leave from the University of Edinburgh, where he is the Chair in Business and Sustainable Development and Director Scaling Business in Africa. He is also a Visiting Professor of Leadership and Financial Markets in Africa at the London School of Economics and an Honorary Professor of Business in Africa at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Kenneth is a leading scholar on sustainable business and finance in the global south. His research interest currently focuses on financial market reforms and governance, as well as on sector - level policies for sustainability and sustainability strategy in organisations. He has an expert level knowledge of developing and emerging economies. His research has a very strong interface between business and society, particularly national governments in Africa, where he has an extensive network. Since 2015, he has significantly contributed to developing the intellectual foundations of Africapitalism – an economic philosophy for the development of Africa – and championed its mainstreaming in the global academia.

Besides teaching and researching, Kenneth works closely with businesses and governments in Africa, Europe, and Asia. He leads executive capacity building engagements and consultancy projects in the broad areas of sustainable finance, sustainability strategy, leadership, ethics, and governance formultinational corporations and institutions. Between 2016 and 2017, he was a Scholar in Residence at the National Pension Commission, Nigeria. For more on Kenneth, kindly visit his personal website https://www.kennethamaeshi.com/.

Nesrine Chehata

MC, Bordeaux INP Specialist in Geomatics and IA Earth Observation

Is a lecturer at Bordeaux INP since 2006 and specializes in geomatics and AI for Earth observation. She defended her thesis in 2005 with CNES (Centre National des Etudes Spatiales) and IGN (Institut Géographique National) on 3D modeling of buildings from satellite data THR. She is president and founding member of the association AGEOS - African Association for Geospatial Development since November 2016. She organizes many seminars of awareness and technology watch in geospatial in Tunisia and open to the African scale. She advocates for opengeodata in Tunisia and the animation of the community of reusers via the organization of Tunisia Opengeodatahack. She coordinates several projects to support ministries and local authorities in Tunisia for the implementation of their GIS, with the inclusion of citizens via openstreetmap.