Joe Ravetz is Co-Director of the Centre for Urban Resilience & Energy at the University of Manchester. He has pioneered the art of strategic thinking for sustainable cities and regions, which brings together environment-climate policy, urban planning and design, new economics and governance, innovation and futures studies, systems thinking and complexity science. With a background as an architect, planner and development manager, he is also a creative graphic facilitator and foresight trainer. He is on the editorial boards of Foresight Journal, International Journal of Sustainable Development, and Sustainable Mediterranean Construction; coordinator of the Greater Manchester Policy Exchange; Principal at SAMI Consulting; policy advisor currently to Naples (Italy), and Vellore (India); and delivers training, seminars, consultancy, keynotes and reviews in many countries.
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