| 2018 |
Professor of Sustainable Urbanism in the Global South and Academic Programme Director at the Masters Programme on Urban Ecological Planning, NTNU Trondheim (Norway) |
| 2017 |
Partner and steering board member in the Erasmus+ program IMPAQT: Integrative Multidisciplinary People-centred Architectural Qualification & Training, on behalf of the University of Kassel, a capacity building initiative between European and Egyptian institutions |
| 2017 |
External Evaluation of UN-Habitat's City Planning Expansion and Design Unit including the Global Programme on Public Space and the Urban Planning and Design Lab 2013-2016, together with Prof. Dina Shehayeb |
| 2017 |
Member of the United Nations working group on the human settlement indictors of the SDG’s |
| 2016 |
“The New Urban Agenda in the Global South: Engaging Research in Policy Making”, The United Nations Conference on Housing and
Sustainable Urban Development. Panel member and discussant. 17 - 20 October 2016, Quito - Ecuador |
| 2016 |
Partner, Coordinator in the Erasmus+ Project SES: Social Inclusion and Energy Management for Informal Settlements, on behalf of theUniversity of Kassel, a capacity building initiative between European and Ethiopian institutions |
| 2016 |
Trends and Typologies of Contemporary Urban Development in the Context of Climate Change. Key-note lecture at the IGCS Conference in Chennai, 05.12.2015 |
| 2015 |
Self-Organisation and Urban Sustainability, Lecture on at the Munich Science-days, 17.11.2015, http://www.muenchner-wissenschaftstage.de |
| 2015 |
Co-chair of the thematic group on Housing and Planning; Organising several workshops and drafting of a policy position paper for Habitat III in partnership with the Network-Association of urban Researchers on Urbanisation in the South, and the Cities Alliance, Brussels. |
| 2015 |
Participatory Design of Parks and Public Spaces using the Block-by-block approach: Model Project of the Endstreet Park North in the Inner City in Johannesburg; Public Space and Safety Expert |
