China Planning Network (CPN)

China Week 2008

Confirmed speakers

The China Planning Network has confirmed so far 47 leading scholars and professionals to speak in CPN China Week 2008:

• Tridib Banerjee, Professor and James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning, former vice dean of the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of South California
• Alain Bertaud, independent consultant, former Principal Urban Planner, World Bank
• Rachel Bratt, Professor and Former Chair, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
• Salvano Briceno, Director, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, United Nations
• Xavier Briggs, Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning, MIT, Former
  Acting Assistant Secretary, U.S. HUD
• Robert B. Cervero, Chair and Professor of City and Regional Planning, Department
  of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
• Yung-Ho Chang, Professor and Head, Department of Architecture, MIT
• Wenzhen Chen, Assistant Professor, Tongji University
• Bernard Cohen, Secretary of Transportation, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Randall Crane, Acting Director and Professor of Urban Planning, Institute of
  Transportation Studies, UCLA
• Joseph Ferreira Jr, Professor of Urban Planning and Operations Research, Head of UIS, MIT, Former President of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)
• Peter Fong, Director of EMBA & Executive Programmes, Faculty of Business & Economics, the University of Hong Kong
• Steven French, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Director, Center for GIS, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Ralph Gakenheimer, Professor of Urban Planning, MIT, Chair, International Scientific Committee of CODATU (Collaborative on Urban Transport Improvement in the Developing World)
• Piper Gaubatz, Associate Professor, Program Head for Geography, Dept. of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts
• Yunchang Gu, Vice President, China Real Estate Association
• Lawrence Hannah, Former Lead Economist, World Bank
• Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Dean, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University. Chair, Scientific Committee of WCTRS. Member, Science Council of Japan
• Haruo Hayashi, Professor, Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
• Michael Hibbard, President, ACSP, Professor and Director, Institute for Policy Research and Innovation (IPRI), University of Oregon
• Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez, Sector Manager, China and Mongolia Sustainable Development Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region, the World Bank
• Martin de Jong, Associate professor of public management, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of TPM
• Fengmin Kan, Senior Coordinator, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, United Nations
• Bohumil Kasal, Hankin Chair of Residential Building Construction, Professor
  of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Architectural Engineering,
  Director of Research, Pennsylvania Housing Research Center
• Klaus Kunzmann, Jean Monnet professor for European Spatial Planning,  School of Planning, Universität Dortmund, Germany, founder President of the Association of European Schools of Planning
• Alven Lam, Director, Office of International Affairs, and Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. HUD
• Si Ming, Li, Chair Professor in Geography, Director of Centre for China Urban and Regional Studies, Hong Kong University
• Xiaodong Li, President and CEO, Union Trust, China
• Yuki Matsuoka, Officer in charge, Programme Officer, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, United Nations Hyogo Office
• Itsuki Nakabayashi, Professor, Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Meisheng Nie, President, China Real Estate Chamber of Commerce; Chairman, Housing Industrilization Office, Ministry of Construction
• Robert Olshansky, Professor, Dept of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Hugo Priemus, Professor and former Dean, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management,
  Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
• Jingjing Qian, Director for China Sustainable Cities Project, Natural Resources Defense Council
• Nicolas Retsinas, Director, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, Former
  U.S. HUD Assistant Secretary
• Bish Sanyal, Professor of Urban Development and Planning, Chair of Faculty, MIT
• Richard Stone, Asia news editor, Science Magazine
• Claudine Stuchell, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
• Lawrence Vale, Head and Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
• Robert Vale, Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland, Honorary Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney
• Robin Visser, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Dave Wetzel, Consultant - "Transforming Communities". Former Vice-Chair Transport for London. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.
• Michael Woo, Los Angeles Planning Commissioner, adjunct professor,  School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of South California
• Fulong Wu, Professor of East Asian Planning and Development, Director of Urban China Research International Network, Cardiff University, UK
• Xylina Wu, Director, Business Development, Greater China, Massachusetts International Office of Trade and Investment, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Ming Zhang, Assistant Prof, University of Texas at Austin
• Liang Zhao, lecturer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT