Overview
Company / Institute
Institut d'aménagement et urbanisme Ile-de-France
Track
Track 7: URBAN GOVERNANCE and planning profession: planning for future
Position
Manager of International Affairs
Bio
Eric Huybrechts is a senior Architect and Urban/Regional Planner, member of Isocarp (scientific council, France representative), Icomos (working group on Climate and Heritage), Société Française des Urbanistes (Scientific council) and Officer of the Royal order of Sahametrey (Kingdom of Cambodia).
He is the Manager of the International affairs at the Directorate general of Paris Regional planning Agency (www.iau-idf.fr). He has developed a large experience in the field of Urban and Regional Planning as expert and team leader on Algiers, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Dubai, Erevan, Ethiopia, Istanbul, Kampala, Mongolia, Mumbai, Paris/Ile-de-France, Phnom Penh, Rio de Janeiro, Samarkand, Saudi Arabia, Tripoli-Libya, Al Ula. He has prepared projects at local level, sub metropolitan, metropolitan, regional and national scales. Recently, he was the team leader for the National Urban Development Scheme of Ethiopia (2013-2015), and for the National Spatial Strategy of Saudi Arabia (2017-2018).
He represents IAU-IdF to the World Urban Campaign of UN-Habitat, Climate Chance (in charge of Territorial planning alliance) and the global network of Metropolitan and Territorial planning agencies (MTPA). He is managing decentralized cooperation projects with Abidjan, Beijing and Beirut. He has also an academic experience as a scientific researcher in the Middle-East countries and as a lecturer in several universities in France (Paris 1 - Sorbonne university / Paris 7 Diderot university, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées) and abroad (MIT/Boston…), mainly on Territorial planning in the Global South. He is member of the scientific council of the Labex Dynamite (18 scientific research units focusing on Geography, History and Archeology).
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...
2. 7.4 Metropolis Management -
10 Sep, 2019
Metropolises-as expanding-are covering several jurisdictions. Infrastructures and public services are managed on different areas. The share of compete...
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...
