Overview
Company / Institute
UNICEF
Track
Track 3 LIVEABLE PLACES and healthy cities: planning for people
Position
Urban Planning Specialist
I'm interested in
City and Regional Planning
Energy and Waste Management
Governance, Finance, Regulation
Housing and Social Justice
ICT, Modelling, GIS
Infrastructure and Transport Planning
Land use Planning and Management
Landscape, Architecture and Urban Design
Public Participation
Sustainability and Resilience
Urban Economy
Bio
Jens Aerts is a senior urban planner with 20 years of experience, working on the cross-section of practice, policy and research. Most recently he has been working as an international consultant for the Habitat III secretariat, UNICEF HQ and the World Bank. He authored UNICEF’s recent publication ‘Shaping urbanization for children, a handbook on child-responsive urban planning’ and supports the agency with the development and implementation of a Global Urban Strategy, including training and technical assistance in regional and country offices.
Jens is a partner at BUUR – Bureau for Urbanism, specialized in city development plans and stakeholder engagement processes towards sustainable urban transformation for the Brussels Capital Region and several secondary cities in Belgium and the Netherlands. Before that he assisted both Governments of the Flemish and the Brussels Region to build urban planning capacity in public agencies and to direct community led neighborhood plans, sustainable mobility programs and key public space interventions.
Jens was teaching at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research of the University of Brussels (VUB) from 2011 until 2016. He holds a MSc in Civil Engineering and Architecture from the University of Leuven (Belgium) and obtained his MA Urban Planning at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona (Spain).
Speaking Engagement
1. Second Plenary -
09 Sep, 2019
16:00 | Speech: Mobility and Metropolis - Cable Car SystemsMarc Funda, Transport Planner, Doppelmayr16: 10 | Speech: Empowering Smart Cities with Con...
3. Closing Plenary -
12 Sep, 2019
16:00 | Congress Summary by the General Rapporteur and the Congress Team Martina Juvara, Director, URBAN SilenceLuo Wenjing, Urban Planner, Wuhan Pla...
