Hon Dr Owen Bonnici
Minister for Justice
Owen graduated in 2001 in Law and European Studies, and achieved a Doctorate of Laws from the University of Malta. Apart from serving as a Minister he also teaches at the Faculty of Law in the University of Malta. He was elected in Parliament for the first time in 2008. In 2013, Dr Joseph Muscat appointed him as Parliamentary Secretary for Justice. He was then appointed as Minister a year later. In 2017’s General Elections, he was elected once again in Parliament for the third time in a row.
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Minister for Justice
Hon Dr Marthese Portelli
Shadow Minister for Planning, Capital Projects, and Property Market
Marthese is a member of Parliament who was first elected in April 2013 and re-elected in June 2018 from the 9th and the 13th district. During this tenure she was tasked with various responsibilities - Shadow Minister for Energy, Environment and Transport; Opposition Spokesperson for EU Affairs; and Opposition Representative on 5 parliamentary committees -Environment & Development Planning; Foreign & EU Affairs Committee; Social Affairs Committee; Privileges Committee; Diabetes Working Group.
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Shadow Minister for Planning, Capital Projects, and Property Market
Architect Elizabeth de Portzamparc
Architect
In her activity of Architect and Urbanist, Elizabeth de Portzamparc designs buildings to serve as architectural symbols supporting new values and as powerful urban landmarks that skilfully structure and inhabit the places where they are built. Her projects are characterized by their innovative flexibility, architectural layouts designed to foster sociability on the scales of both the building and the city, giving much importance to the total spatial interconnections.
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Architect
Mary is based in the UK and works with IBM's clients. Prior to IBM, Mary spent 10 years as a lecturer in economics at the University of Limerick and has also lectured at Trinity College Dublin and NUI Maynooth. She has also spent time as an economist in the largest stockbrokers in Ireland. She has co-ordinated a number of research projects for public bodies such as the European Commission, and is a former member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council for Cities.
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Mr Stephen Hilton
Director of Bristol Futures Global
Stephen is a Director of Bristol Futures Global and an internationally recognised smart cities expert. At Bristol City Council he created and led Bristol Futures, a high profile, award-winning team that achieved great success. Stephen is a Fellow at the University of Bristol’s Cabot Institute.
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Director of Bristol Futures Global
Mr Tom Bridges
Director, Arup
Tom is an experienced professional in city strategy, urban and regional policy and planning, transport, economic development, regeneration, and city governance and operations. He is a chartered member of the RTPI. Tom leads Arup’s City Advisory practice, advising on city and regional strategies for economic development, inclusive growth, infrastructure, skills and innovation, supporting clients on funding and finance, socio- economic advice, housing, and regeneration.
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Director, Arup
Mr Mark Atherton
Assistant Director Environment at Greater Manchester Combined Authority,
Mark joined the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) in 2012 as Director of Environment for Greater Manchester and transferred to GMCA in May 2017. Prior to his current appointment, Mark joined the Northwest Regional Development Agency in 2002, culminating in the role of Director of Energy and Environment. Mark holds a science degree in Organic Chemistry and Industrial Ecology; postgraduate qualifications in Leadership and Hydrobiology and several management qualifications.
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Assistant Director Environment at Greater Manchester Combined Authority,
Mr Jacco Schuurkamp
Senior policy advisor for the Municipality of The Hague (Netherlands)
Senior policy advisor for the Municipality of The Hague (Netherlands). Mr. Schuurkamp has worked on many projects citywide since 2008. In 2016 he presented the Green Agenda for The Hague, focusing on natural capital as a leading theme for green space planning and management
Jacco received a master degree in landscape architecture from the Wageningen Agricultural University and has been working in the Randstad region for more than twenty years.
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Senior policy advisor for the Municipality of The Hague (Netherlands)
Mr David Harley
SEPA’s Head of Water and Planning
David Harley is SEPA’s Head of Water and Planning. David has worked for SEPA and predecessor bodies since 1991 in a wide variety of roles including ecological assessment, regulation, water policy and water framework directive implementation. His priority is on focussing SEPA’s considerable water and planning expertise and talent towards securing a more circular economy, in line with SEPA’s One Planet Prosperity vision.
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SEPA’s Head of Water and Planning
Profs. Andrew Azzopardi
Dean of the Faculty for Social Wellbeing and Head of the Department of Youth and Community Studies
Prof. Andrew Azzopardi is Dean of the Faculty for Social Wellbeing and Head of the Department of Youth and Community Studies. His lecturing and research focus on inclusive education, sociology, critical pedagogy, disability politics, youth and community studies. He is a Member of the Editorial Panel of the International Journal of Inclusive Education, and co-Editor of Inclusive communities: A critical reader (2012) and also edited Youth: Responding to lives - An international reader (2013).
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Dean of the Faculty for Social Wellbeing and Head of the Department of Youth and Community Studies
Mr David Sislen
Practice Manager for Urban and Disaster Risk Management for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank
David Sislen is the Practice Manager, where he manages a team of about 40 professionals and a portfolio of approximately $2 billion in commitments. He holds degrees in Economics and Geography from Johns Hopkins University and Macalester College (USA) and has worked extensively on issues of infrastructure, urban development, and decentralized service delivery in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and East Asia and the Pacific.
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Practice Manager for Urban and Disaster Risk Management for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank
Mr Gerald Muscat
Head of Division, Urban Development, European Investment Bank
Gerald heads EIB’s Urban Development Division, where he is responsible for the appraisal of the Bank’s urban development projects, advisory support for cities, and the Bank’s policy approach in the sector. He has worked most of his career in the urban sector, in consultancy, at EBRD as a senior banker in their municipal and environment team, in JASPERS – a project preparation facility for EU projects - and now at EIB. He also manages EIB project work on key urban themes.
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Head of Division, Urban Development, European Investment Bank
Ms Angelique Spina
Senior Manager, PWC (Malta)
Angelique joined PwC in 2000 after obtaining a degree in Accounting. Angelique is one of PwC’s local real estate specialists. In this role, she has assisted a number of architects in compiling valuation reports for a variety of different properties including offices, commercial outlets, specialised buildings such as hotels, investment properties and others. In 2014, Angelique was very actively involved in preparing the valuations in connection with the Asset Quality Review of HSBC Bank.
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Senior Manager, PWC (Malta)
Mr John Acres
President of the Royal Town Planning Institute for 2018
John Acres is President of the Royal Town Planning Institute for 2018. John was President of the Planning & Development Association from 2011-2013. During 2005/06, John served on the Government’s Affordable Rural Housing Commission. He was a founder Board member of the South Shropshire Housing Association, serving for 8 years and was previously a local Parish Councillor in Warwickshire.
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President of the Royal Town Planning Institute for 2018
Perit Simone Vella Lenicker
Design Director at Architecture Project.
Perit Simone Vella Lenicker graduated as an Architect and Civil Engineer from the University of Malta. She is now a Design Director at Architecture Project. She currently holds the post of Vice President of the Kamra tal-Periti. She is also a registered Energy Performance of Buildings Assessor, as well as a Member of the Building Regulation Board, the Users’ Committee of the Planning Authority and the Building Industry Consultative Council Advisory Board.
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Design Director at Architecture Project.
