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International conference Future City – Diverse City CVs Steering Group Gothe, Ephraim Ephraim Gothe was trained as civil engineer, art history and architecture, and environmental protection engineering at Munich Technical University. Afterwards, he worked as urban planner in the Department for Capital City Affairs at the Berlin Senate Department for Building and Housing. In the following years, he was appointed several leading positions in the Senate Department for Urban Development and Personal Assistant to Berlin´s Senate Director for Urban Development. Since 2005, he is heading the Architectural Affairs Division of the Senate Department for Urban Development. Between 2006 and 2011, he was Councilor for Urban Development of the District Berlin-Mitte. Since 2012, Ephraim Gothe is Permanent State Secretary at the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment. Krönert, Sibylle Sibylle Krönert is a graduated geographer and works in the Head Department for Organizational and Human Resources at the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment. She is responsible for gender diversity as cross-sectional topic. Besides her function as a representative for gender equality she is the director of the Women´s Advisory Council. 1/14

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International conference Future City ndash Diverse City

CVs Steering Group Gothe Ephraim

Ephraim Gothe was trained as civil engineer art history and architecture and environmental protection engineering at Munich Technical University Afterwards he worked as urban planner in the Department for Capital City Affairs at the Berlin Senate Department for Building and Housing In the following years he was appointed several leading positions in the Senate Department for Urban Development and Personal Assistant to Berlinacutes Senate Director for Urban Development Since 2005 he is heading the Architectural Affairs Division of the Senate Department for Urban Development Between 2006 and 2011 he was Councilor for Urban Development of the District Berlin-Mitte Since 2012 Ephraim Gothe is Permanent State Secretary at the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment

Kroumlnert Sibylle

Sibylle Kroumlnert is a graduated geographer and works in the Head Department for Organizational and Human Resources at the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment She is responsible for gender diversity as cross-sectional topic Besides her function as a representative for gender equality she is the director of the Womenacutes Advisory Council

114

Januszewski Uwe

Uwe Januszewski works since 1975 as civil servant at the administration of the State of Berlin initially at the District of Berlin-Tempelhof At present he works in the unit of the Gender Equality Representative of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment Between 1996 and 2010 he was member of the executive board from 2006 to 2010 chairman of the Main Staff Council of the State of Berlin

Kaumlmper Gabriele

Dr Gabriele Kaumlmper is literary scholar and studied in Berlin and Madrid She heads the Office for Equal Rights of the State of Berlin and takes the responsibility for the conception and coordination of the statewide process to implement gender equality and Gender Mainstreaming within the Berlin Gender Equality Framework Programme Her latest project is the adoption of the Berlin Model for Equal Opportunities that aims at consolidating the successes and competences of the Berlin government and administration in the field of equal opportunities Kaumlmper published on issues of political rhetoric and the history of political thought as well as on cultural representations of gender and nation She is a member of the Advisory Council of Feministische Studien (Feminist Studies) a German journal that publishes interdisciplinary research on women and gender

214

Kock Liane

Liane Kock works since 2003 at the Office for Equal Opportunities that belongs on the technical level to the Senate Department for Labour Integration and Women Amongst other a main emphasis of the officersquos work is to conceptualise plan develop and coordinate the implementation of the Gender Equality Policy Framework throughout the Land of Berlin and interdepartmental in the Senatesrsquo and districtsrsquo administrations In this context she is responsible for the project management in the Senatersquos and Districtslsquo departments for committee-work and public relations

Droste Christiane

Christiane Droste owner and manager of the research and consultancy agency UrbanPlus (founded in 2006) is working as cultural- and social scientist and moderator Her research addresses integrated urban and neighbourhood development housing neighbourhood oriented participation structures and labour market initiatives urban governance and gender diversity aspects of these fields of action 2001-2005 she did research in European research projects on integrative urban- and neighbourhood development and large housing estates at the Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (Erkner) and lectured from 2006-2009 at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences on neighbourhood management practice and policies At present she is involved in international research on community oriented housing and policies As gendershyund diversity-consultant she supports public administration for example since 2006 the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment since 2008 the Senate Department for Public Health and Social Affairs and NGOs in her fields of research and also concerning public health consumerslsquo protection and public relations work Also she designs participation oriented projects in this context

314

CVs Chairs Kagel Ela

Ela Kagel develops as a freelance cultural producer events and strategies for open source technology media art and digital culture As a program curator of the Berlin festival transmediale she initiated in 2010 the Free Culture Incubator which is a series of events around the price and value of free creative work Since 2005 Ela Kagel works together with Public Art Lab Berlin where she initiated many media art projects for example Mobile Studios Upgrade Berlin or Mobicases In 2011 Ela Kagel founded SUPERMARKT Berlinacutes centre for creative resources As a creative director she is responsible for the monthly changing program with workshops conferences and events around digital culture Kagel holds a masteracutes degree in European Culture Planning at the De Montfort University (LeicesterUK) She gives on a regular basis lectures and moderates at international conferences for example transmediale Social Media Week republica Ars Electronica MUTEK Berlin Music Week or Future Everything

Walz Susanne

Susanne Walz is landscape planner and director of the urban development and regeneration agency LIST - Loumlsungen im Stadtteil Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft mbh From 1982 to 1989 she studied landscape planning at the Berlin Technical University (TU) Until 2000 she worked as a landscape architect at the planning office Oumlkologie und Planung (ecology and planning) and at the Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment in Berlin As research assistant and member of the work group for further education at the Institute for Management and Environmental Planning - TU Berlin Susanne Walz taught and developed further education programs for international environmental engineers Since 2000 she is doing neighbourhood work initially as assistant at ASUM GmbH in the redevelopment areas Samariterviertel and Warschauer Straszlige in Berlin-Friedrichshain afterwards as a project manager at the marketshyoriented neighbourhood marketing for the Stralauer Kiez in Berlin-Friedrichshain for BIS Stadtteilmanagement GmbH Since 2006 Susanne Walz is working at LIST mbH in the field of

414

neigbourhood management and project development Since 2011 she is the director of the company

Gerstenberg Frauke

Frauke Gerstenberg born 1968 in Berlin studied architecture at the Berlin University of Arts (HDK) and at the Barcelona Technical University for Architecture (ETSAB) and finished her studies in Berlin in 1998 with distinction (Max-Taut-Award) From 1999 to 2003 she worked for Sauerbruch Hutton Architekten in Berlin and was from 2003 to 2009 a teaching assistant of Prof Peter Ebner at the department for experimental housing projects at the Munich Technical University She also published books about experimental housing Since 2003 Gerstenberg works self-employed as an architect and a co-operation partner with raumlabor berlin on many projects in the area of conflict in urban space art and architecture with focus on public space and urban action strategies Important topics are participation in society process-oriented solution strategies artistic interventions and spaces of possibility as urban future Since 2013 Gerstenberg is partner in raumlabor berlin

Tummers Lidewij

Lidewij Tummers graduated in 1989 as building engineer at Delft Technical University After 10 years in practice she founded her own office based in Rotterdam Tussen Ruimte (Intermediate space) specializes in inclusive and sustainable approaches to architecture and urbanism Tummers has ample experience in applied research on planning instruments at different scales as well as international comparison From 2006 to date she is part-time tutor-researcher at the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft Chair of spatial planning and strategy She is teaching regional planning in the international master studies on urbanism Her main research areas are decentralized renewable energy networks innovation in planning instruments citizenrsquos initiatives in ecologicalcollective housing gender perspectives of spatial planning and architecture

514

Zeuner Nicole

Nicole Zeuner studied political sciences economics and history in Goumlttingen Berlin Munich and the USA and is since 2006 responsible for the area of work BerlinPolitik within the Berlin Forum of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Her responsibility in this area of work focuses particularly on dialogue oriented events on urban development

Droste Christiane

Christiane Droste owner and manager of the research and consultancy agency UrbanPlus (founded in 2006) is working as cultural- and social scientist and moderator Her research addresses integrated urban and neighbourhood development housing neighbourhood oriented participation structures and labour market initiatives urban governance and gender diversity aspects of these fields of action 2001-2005 she did research in European research projects on integrative urban- and neighbourhood development and large housing estates at the Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (Erkner) and lectured from 2006-2009 at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences on neighbourhood management practice and policies At present she is involved in international research on community oriented housing and policies

As gender- und diversity-consultant she supports public administration for example since 2006 the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment since 2008 the Senate Department for Public Health and Social Affairs and NGOs in her fields of research and also concerning public health consumerslsquo protection and public relations work Also she designs participation oriented projects in this context

614

Knorr-Siedow Thomas

Thomas Knorr-Siedow is urban sociologist and urban planner and senior partner at UrbanPlus He does research and consultancy on socially oriented urban development and housing knowledge based urban development and governance processes in Germany EU-countries (particularly Central and Eastern Europe) and in developing countries (Sri Lanka Vietnam) He has a sound experience in the conceptualisation of knowledge-based neighbourhood or urban development strategies and participation processes as well as in the moderation of steering processes in policy and administration and in the mediation of conflicts in urban development Also he has many years of experience with the management and organisation of project teams (team management team mediation training in communication and knowledge management group dynamics and adult education) the development of research strategies and communicative knowledge transfer in the state municipal and civil societyrsquos sector

Thomas Knorr-Siedow is since 1993 teaching at Cottbus Technical University (today BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg) and in different European universities (eg CEU Budapest TU Tallin) He is Coshycoordinator of the international working group Large Housing Estates and member of the Coordination Committee of the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) and member of the Netzwerk Berlin-Istanbul

714

Huning Sandra

Dr Sandra Huning studied spatial planning at Dortmund Technical University and at the University Pierre Mendegraves (France) Later she worked as a scientific assistant at the Berlin Institute for Social Research at the Institute of Sociology of the Technical University Berlin and at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Humanities She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate Research Program Berlin-New York Centre for Metropolitan Studies in Berlin Today Sandra Huning works as a scientific assistant at the faculty Urban and Region Sociology at Dortmund Technical University Furthermore she is a co-editor of the professional journal Planungsrundschau and amongst other she is member of the Berlin Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment During the winter term 201314 she holds a guest-professorship at the Berlin Humboldt Universityrsquos Institute for Geography

Muumlller Ines

Ines Muumlller studied sociology at Berlin Humboldt University She holds a diploma and works as a research assistant for the Institute for City Planning and Social Research Weeber+Partner since 1994 Since 1999 she is neighbourhood manager at High-Deck-SiedlungSonnenallee in Berlin-Neukoumllln Her field of work ranges from coordination of local practice including organisation and networking between social carriers and actors the development of an integrated action plan aiming at the involvement of residents She focuses on the development supervision and evaluation of projects dealing with different groups of actors and residents especially families from the arabic language area Turkey Southeast Europe and particularly Roma

814

Januszewski Uwe

Uwe Januszewski works since 1975 as civil servant at the administration of the State of Berlin initially at the District of Berlin-Tempelhof At present he works in the unit of the Gender Equality Representative of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment Between 1996 and 2010 he was member of the executive board from 2006 to 2010 chairman of the Main Staff Council of the State of Berlin

Schroumlder Anke

Anke Schroumlder PhD studied architecture and did her doctorate on Gender Mainstreaming and Housing at the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) She worked several years as a research assistant in the Department of Sociology of Planning and Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape at the LUH Since 2009 Schroumlder is a research assistant at the Lower Saxony State Investigation Department (LKA NI) and worked from 2009 to 2012 as project manager in the EUshyproject Planning urban Security ndash PluS Currently she works in the field of criminology research and statistics at the LKA NI and is the scientific project leader of the project Urban Safety funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Furthermore Schroumlder is a lecturer for the Sociology of Architecture at the LUH She represents the LKA in the Lower Saxony Partnership on Urban Safety and is an appointed member of the Women`s Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment in Berlin

914

Uken Sibylle

Sybille Uken living in Berlin is a graduated social economist and fully qualified lawyer She works as free-lance human resource and management consultant and as coach Since 2011 she is member of the Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Development and the Environment where her work focuses on mobility and traffic (especially mobility in the public space demography and mobility gender-equitable design of local public transport and public rail transport and social urban development) Moreover she is Chairwoman of the Committee of Experts of the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin where she is involved since many years

From 1999 to 2004 Sybille Uken was Member of the Supervisory Board of the Berlin Public Transportation Companies (BVG) and from 2002 to 2004 she the Economic Committee of the Supervisory Board Since 1972 she is engaged in several fields of voluntary work and was in 2002 awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her engagement in working with immigrant population

1014

CVs Respondents

Greve Katharina

Katharina Greve studied architecture at the Berlin Technical University Today she lives as comicdesigner cartoonist author and ex-architect in Berlin Apart from cartoons for the political satire magazin Titanic the daily newspapers Tagesspiegel (Berlin) and the Online-comic-portal electrocomicscom she published so far two graphic novels Ein Mann geht an die Decke (Die Biblyothek) ndash warded the ICOM Independent Comic Award category exceptional artwork ndash and Patchwork ndash Frau Doktor Waldbeck naumlht sich eine Familie (Guumltersloher Verlagshaus) In 2010 Katharina Greve was the first woman who was awarded the German Cartoon Award (Deutscher Cartoonpreis) for new talents in 2013 she was awarded the Sondermann Foumlrderpreis Since 2012 she is the designing member of the stage-quartett Pop-Puumlree

shy

1114

Reiszlig-Schmidt Stephan

After studying architecture and urban planning at the RWTH Aachen and training as a town planner in Nordrhein-Westfalen the graduated engineer Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt completed the civil service examination as Bauassessor (state construction assessment) In the following years he worked as the head of the Gelsenkirchen Urban Planning Office and as head of the planning department at the Communal Association of the Ruhr Area Since 1996 the todayacutes City Director was the Head of the Department of Urban Management at the Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulation of the City of Munich and since 2000 he is the Chairman of the Commission Urban Development Planning at the Deutscher Staumldtetag (German Association of Cities) Since 2008 Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt is furthermore chairman of the Bavarian regional faction in the Deutsche Akademie fuumlr Staumldtebau und Landesplanung (German Academy of Urban Development and Regional Planning)

Flade Luise

Luise Flade graduated in urban and a regional planning (Berlin and Rome) her key activities lie in the field of urban event management public relations and communication work digital media and the city In 2006 she co-founded the network urbanophilnet ndash Network for urban culture eV and is there responsible for public relations communication and the organization of various projects like film events panel discussions and city walks She blogs about the association and lectures (amongst others at HU Berlin and Kassel University) about their possibilities to influence processes in urban development Luise Flade wrote her diploma thesis Digitales Stadtgedaumlchtnis Neukoumllln (Digital urban memory Neukoumllln) about digital maps and memory Luise was also a project leader in social neighborhood projects for example in Valparaiacuteso Chile and Berlin-Charlottenburg Currently she works for the Bund Deutscher Architekten (Association of German Architects) in the unit for press and communication

1214

Kern Maren

After studying both law and architecture Maren Kern worked as a lawyer at a well-respected lawyerrsquos office in Berlin and focused on private and public building law In 1990 she was appointed Legal advisor of the Umbrella Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Building Companies (BBU) and in 1993 Special Representative of the Board of Management of the BBU In this function she supported building companies in Berlin and the new federal states to cope with the heavy challenges of the German reunification In the end of 1998 Kern took on the management of the BBU-subsidiary Domus Consult Wirtschaftsberatungsgesellschaft mbH Since 2009 Maren Kern is member of the BBU-Board of Management In this position she heads the field of interest that represents the needs of the member companies in dealings with politics administration and the public In addition she is Member of the Board of Management of the BBA Academy of Real Estate Management in Berlin Member of the Supervisory Board of the BBT GmbH and member of many more organizations and committees of the housing and real estate economy

Gross Monika

Monika Gross holds a PhD and professorship in Biology In 2011 she took up office as President of the Berlin Beuth Technical University where she was already in 1992 appointed professor for cell and molecular biology (at that time Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin) Before she did research at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg and at the University of California (IrvineUSA) Besides her teaching and researching activity she got involved in academic administration For example she was a Member of the Academic Senate and of the Academic Assembly Between 1997 and 2003 Gross was the Vice President for Teaching and Learning In this time she institutionalized the universityrsquos quality management and initiated the introduction of the bachelor and masters degrees the program accreditation and the universityrsquos advanced training in didactics In the time between 2008 and her assumption of office in the universityrsquos executive committee she was dean of the faculty of Life Sciences and Technology

1314

Goula Kalypso

Kalypso Goula attended the American High School Anatolia in Thessaloniki Upon graduation in 1984 she studied Law at the Aristotle University where she earned her Bachelorrsquos Degree in Law in 1988 After she successfully passed her bar-exam she started practicing law in 1991 specializing in criminal civil and commercial law In 1995 she earned her Masterrsquos Degree in Commercial and Financial Law again from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki In 2008 she was elected member of the governing board of the Thessaloniki Bar Association In the municipal elections in 2010 she won a seat in the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki the second biggest city in Greece Since 2011 she has been appointed by the Mayor as Vice-Mayor responsible for social solidarity

Yalccedilıntan Murat

Murat Cemal Yalccedilıntan is a city planner a researcher and an activist He studied city and regional planning and conservation planning at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University He finished his PhD on the interrelation of globalisation local politics and planning decisions in İstanbul at the London School of Economics (1997-2005) Since he returned to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2002 to work as a lecturer he is associated professor and has been giving courses at graduate and post graduate levels such as Planning Studio Research Methods Globalisation and Urban Social Movements etc He also carried on administrative duties in the university such as the Head of the Regional Planning Unit and edited several publications He has been giving volunteer consultancy to the neighbourhood organisations since 2004 against forced eviction and forced renewalregeneration and has been part of civil initiatives that have been advocating the rights of the people in the neighbourhoods subject to regeneration and renewal

1414

Page 2: Conference Future City – Diverse City, CVs Steering Group ... · International conference Future City – Diverse City CVs Steering Group Gothe, Ephraim Ephraim Gothe was trained

Januszewski Uwe

Uwe Januszewski works since 1975 as civil servant at the administration of the State of Berlin initially at the District of Berlin-Tempelhof At present he works in the unit of the Gender Equality Representative of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment Between 1996 and 2010 he was member of the executive board from 2006 to 2010 chairman of the Main Staff Council of the State of Berlin

Kaumlmper Gabriele

Dr Gabriele Kaumlmper is literary scholar and studied in Berlin and Madrid She heads the Office for Equal Rights of the State of Berlin and takes the responsibility for the conception and coordination of the statewide process to implement gender equality and Gender Mainstreaming within the Berlin Gender Equality Framework Programme Her latest project is the adoption of the Berlin Model for Equal Opportunities that aims at consolidating the successes and competences of the Berlin government and administration in the field of equal opportunities Kaumlmper published on issues of political rhetoric and the history of political thought as well as on cultural representations of gender and nation She is a member of the Advisory Council of Feministische Studien (Feminist Studies) a German journal that publishes interdisciplinary research on women and gender

214

Kock Liane

Liane Kock works since 2003 at the Office for Equal Opportunities that belongs on the technical level to the Senate Department for Labour Integration and Women Amongst other a main emphasis of the officersquos work is to conceptualise plan develop and coordinate the implementation of the Gender Equality Policy Framework throughout the Land of Berlin and interdepartmental in the Senatesrsquo and districtsrsquo administrations In this context she is responsible for the project management in the Senatersquos and Districtslsquo departments for committee-work and public relations

Droste Christiane

Christiane Droste owner and manager of the research and consultancy agency UrbanPlus (founded in 2006) is working as cultural- and social scientist and moderator Her research addresses integrated urban and neighbourhood development housing neighbourhood oriented participation structures and labour market initiatives urban governance and gender diversity aspects of these fields of action 2001-2005 she did research in European research projects on integrative urban- and neighbourhood development and large housing estates at the Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (Erkner) and lectured from 2006-2009 at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences on neighbourhood management practice and policies At present she is involved in international research on community oriented housing and policies As gendershyund diversity-consultant she supports public administration for example since 2006 the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment since 2008 the Senate Department for Public Health and Social Affairs and NGOs in her fields of research and also concerning public health consumerslsquo protection and public relations work Also she designs participation oriented projects in this context

314

CVs Chairs Kagel Ela

Ela Kagel develops as a freelance cultural producer events and strategies for open source technology media art and digital culture As a program curator of the Berlin festival transmediale she initiated in 2010 the Free Culture Incubator which is a series of events around the price and value of free creative work Since 2005 Ela Kagel works together with Public Art Lab Berlin where she initiated many media art projects for example Mobile Studios Upgrade Berlin or Mobicases In 2011 Ela Kagel founded SUPERMARKT Berlinacutes centre for creative resources As a creative director she is responsible for the monthly changing program with workshops conferences and events around digital culture Kagel holds a masteracutes degree in European Culture Planning at the De Montfort University (LeicesterUK) She gives on a regular basis lectures and moderates at international conferences for example transmediale Social Media Week republica Ars Electronica MUTEK Berlin Music Week or Future Everything

Walz Susanne

Susanne Walz is landscape planner and director of the urban development and regeneration agency LIST - Loumlsungen im Stadtteil Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft mbh From 1982 to 1989 she studied landscape planning at the Berlin Technical University (TU) Until 2000 she worked as a landscape architect at the planning office Oumlkologie und Planung (ecology and planning) and at the Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment in Berlin As research assistant and member of the work group for further education at the Institute for Management and Environmental Planning - TU Berlin Susanne Walz taught and developed further education programs for international environmental engineers Since 2000 she is doing neighbourhood work initially as assistant at ASUM GmbH in the redevelopment areas Samariterviertel and Warschauer Straszlige in Berlin-Friedrichshain afterwards as a project manager at the marketshyoriented neighbourhood marketing for the Stralauer Kiez in Berlin-Friedrichshain for BIS Stadtteilmanagement GmbH Since 2006 Susanne Walz is working at LIST mbH in the field of

414

neigbourhood management and project development Since 2011 she is the director of the company

Gerstenberg Frauke

Frauke Gerstenberg born 1968 in Berlin studied architecture at the Berlin University of Arts (HDK) and at the Barcelona Technical University for Architecture (ETSAB) and finished her studies in Berlin in 1998 with distinction (Max-Taut-Award) From 1999 to 2003 she worked for Sauerbruch Hutton Architekten in Berlin and was from 2003 to 2009 a teaching assistant of Prof Peter Ebner at the department for experimental housing projects at the Munich Technical University She also published books about experimental housing Since 2003 Gerstenberg works self-employed as an architect and a co-operation partner with raumlabor berlin on many projects in the area of conflict in urban space art and architecture with focus on public space and urban action strategies Important topics are participation in society process-oriented solution strategies artistic interventions and spaces of possibility as urban future Since 2013 Gerstenberg is partner in raumlabor berlin

Tummers Lidewij

Lidewij Tummers graduated in 1989 as building engineer at Delft Technical University After 10 years in practice she founded her own office based in Rotterdam Tussen Ruimte (Intermediate space) specializes in inclusive and sustainable approaches to architecture and urbanism Tummers has ample experience in applied research on planning instruments at different scales as well as international comparison From 2006 to date she is part-time tutor-researcher at the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft Chair of spatial planning and strategy She is teaching regional planning in the international master studies on urbanism Her main research areas are decentralized renewable energy networks innovation in planning instruments citizenrsquos initiatives in ecologicalcollective housing gender perspectives of spatial planning and architecture

514

Zeuner Nicole

Nicole Zeuner studied political sciences economics and history in Goumlttingen Berlin Munich and the USA and is since 2006 responsible for the area of work BerlinPolitik within the Berlin Forum of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Her responsibility in this area of work focuses particularly on dialogue oriented events on urban development

Droste Christiane

Christiane Droste owner and manager of the research and consultancy agency UrbanPlus (founded in 2006) is working as cultural- and social scientist and moderator Her research addresses integrated urban and neighbourhood development housing neighbourhood oriented participation structures and labour market initiatives urban governance and gender diversity aspects of these fields of action 2001-2005 she did research in European research projects on integrative urban- and neighbourhood development and large housing estates at the Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (Erkner) and lectured from 2006-2009 at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences on neighbourhood management practice and policies At present she is involved in international research on community oriented housing and policies

As gender- und diversity-consultant she supports public administration for example since 2006 the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment since 2008 the Senate Department for Public Health and Social Affairs and NGOs in her fields of research and also concerning public health consumerslsquo protection and public relations work Also she designs participation oriented projects in this context

614

Knorr-Siedow Thomas

Thomas Knorr-Siedow is urban sociologist and urban planner and senior partner at UrbanPlus He does research and consultancy on socially oriented urban development and housing knowledge based urban development and governance processes in Germany EU-countries (particularly Central and Eastern Europe) and in developing countries (Sri Lanka Vietnam) He has a sound experience in the conceptualisation of knowledge-based neighbourhood or urban development strategies and participation processes as well as in the moderation of steering processes in policy and administration and in the mediation of conflicts in urban development Also he has many years of experience with the management and organisation of project teams (team management team mediation training in communication and knowledge management group dynamics and adult education) the development of research strategies and communicative knowledge transfer in the state municipal and civil societyrsquos sector

Thomas Knorr-Siedow is since 1993 teaching at Cottbus Technical University (today BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg) and in different European universities (eg CEU Budapest TU Tallin) He is Coshycoordinator of the international working group Large Housing Estates and member of the Coordination Committee of the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) and member of the Netzwerk Berlin-Istanbul

714

Huning Sandra

Dr Sandra Huning studied spatial planning at Dortmund Technical University and at the University Pierre Mendegraves (France) Later she worked as a scientific assistant at the Berlin Institute for Social Research at the Institute of Sociology of the Technical University Berlin and at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Humanities She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate Research Program Berlin-New York Centre for Metropolitan Studies in Berlin Today Sandra Huning works as a scientific assistant at the faculty Urban and Region Sociology at Dortmund Technical University Furthermore she is a co-editor of the professional journal Planungsrundschau and amongst other she is member of the Berlin Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment During the winter term 201314 she holds a guest-professorship at the Berlin Humboldt Universityrsquos Institute for Geography

Muumlller Ines

Ines Muumlller studied sociology at Berlin Humboldt University She holds a diploma and works as a research assistant for the Institute for City Planning and Social Research Weeber+Partner since 1994 Since 1999 she is neighbourhood manager at High-Deck-SiedlungSonnenallee in Berlin-Neukoumllln Her field of work ranges from coordination of local practice including organisation and networking between social carriers and actors the development of an integrated action plan aiming at the involvement of residents She focuses on the development supervision and evaluation of projects dealing with different groups of actors and residents especially families from the arabic language area Turkey Southeast Europe and particularly Roma

814

Januszewski Uwe

Uwe Januszewski works since 1975 as civil servant at the administration of the State of Berlin initially at the District of Berlin-Tempelhof At present he works in the unit of the Gender Equality Representative of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment Between 1996 and 2010 he was member of the executive board from 2006 to 2010 chairman of the Main Staff Council of the State of Berlin

Schroumlder Anke

Anke Schroumlder PhD studied architecture and did her doctorate on Gender Mainstreaming and Housing at the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) She worked several years as a research assistant in the Department of Sociology of Planning and Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape at the LUH Since 2009 Schroumlder is a research assistant at the Lower Saxony State Investigation Department (LKA NI) and worked from 2009 to 2012 as project manager in the EUshyproject Planning urban Security ndash PluS Currently she works in the field of criminology research and statistics at the LKA NI and is the scientific project leader of the project Urban Safety funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Furthermore Schroumlder is a lecturer for the Sociology of Architecture at the LUH She represents the LKA in the Lower Saxony Partnership on Urban Safety and is an appointed member of the Women`s Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment in Berlin

914

Uken Sibylle

Sybille Uken living in Berlin is a graduated social economist and fully qualified lawyer She works as free-lance human resource and management consultant and as coach Since 2011 she is member of the Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Development and the Environment where her work focuses on mobility and traffic (especially mobility in the public space demography and mobility gender-equitable design of local public transport and public rail transport and social urban development) Moreover she is Chairwoman of the Committee of Experts of the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin where she is involved since many years

From 1999 to 2004 Sybille Uken was Member of the Supervisory Board of the Berlin Public Transportation Companies (BVG) and from 2002 to 2004 she the Economic Committee of the Supervisory Board Since 1972 she is engaged in several fields of voluntary work and was in 2002 awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her engagement in working with immigrant population

1014

CVs Respondents

Greve Katharina

Katharina Greve studied architecture at the Berlin Technical University Today she lives as comicdesigner cartoonist author and ex-architect in Berlin Apart from cartoons for the political satire magazin Titanic the daily newspapers Tagesspiegel (Berlin) and the Online-comic-portal electrocomicscom she published so far two graphic novels Ein Mann geht an die Decke (Die Biblyothek) ndash warded the ICOM Independent Comic Award category exceptional artwork ndash and Patchwork ndash Frau Doktor Waldbeck naumlht sich eine Familie (Guumltersloher Verlagshaus) In 2010 Katharina Greve was the first woman who was awarded the German Cartoon Award (Deutscher Cartoonpreis) for new talents in 2013 she was awarded the Sondermann Foumlrderpreis Since 2012 she is the designing member of the stage-quartett Pop-Puumlree

shy

1114

Reiszlig-Schmidt Stephan

After studying architecture and urban planning at the RWTH Aachen and training as a town planner in Nordrhein-Westfalen the graduated engineer Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt completed the civil service examination as Bauassessor (state construction assessment) In the following years he worked as the head of the Gelsenkirchen Urban Planning Office and as head of the planning department at the Communal Association of the Ruhr Area Since 1996 the todayacutes City Director was the Head of the Department of Urban Management at the Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulation of the City of Munich and since 2000 he is the Chairman of the Commission Urban Development Planning at the Deutscher Staumldtetag (German Association of Cities) Since 2008 Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt is furthermore chairman of the Bavarian regional faction in the Deutsche Akademie fuumlr Staumldtebau und Landesplanung (German Academy of Urban Development and Regional Planning)

Flade Luise

Luise Flade graduated in urban and a regional planning (Berlin and Rome) her key activities lie in the field of urban event management public relations and communication work digital media and the city In 2006 she co-founded the network urbanophilnet ndash Network for urban culture eV and is there responsible for public relations communication and the organization of various projects like film events panel discussions and city walks She blogs about the association and lectures (amongst others at HU Berlin and Kassel University) about their possibilities to influence processes in urban development Luise Flade wrote her diploma thesis Digitales Stadtgedaumlchtnis Neukoumllln (Digital urban memory Neukoumllln) about digital maps and memory Luise was also a project leader in social neighborhood projects for example in Valparaiacuteso Chile and Berlin-Charlottenburg Currently she works for the Bund Deutscher Architekten (Association of German Architects) in the unit for press and communication

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Kern Maren

After studying both law and architecture Maren Kern worked as a lawyer at a well-respected lawyerrsquos office in Berlin and focused on private and public building law In 1990 she was appointed Legal advisor of the Umbrella Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Building Companies (BBU) and in 1993 Special Representative of the Board of Management of the BBU In this function she supported building companies in Berlin and the new federal states to cope with the heavy challenges of the German reunification In the end of 1998 Kern took on the management of the BBU-subsidiary Domus Consult Wirtschaftsberatungsgesellschaft mbH Since 2009 Maren Kern is member of the BBU-Board of Management In this position she heads the field of interest that represents the needs of the member companies in dealings with politics administration and the public In addition she is Member of the Board of Management of the BBA Academy of Real Estate Management in Berlin Member of the Supervisory Board of the BBT GmbH and member of many more organizations and committees of the housing and real estate economy

Gross Monika

Monika Gross holds a PhD and professorship in Biology In 2011 she took up office as President of the Berlin Beuth Technical University where she was already in 1992 appointed professor for cell and molecular biology (at that time Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin) Before she did research at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg and at the University of California (IrvineUSA) Besides her teaching and researching activity she got involved in academic administration For example she was a Member of the Academic Senate and of the Academic Assembly Between 1997 and 2003 Gross was the Vice President for Teaching and Learning In this time she institutionalized the universityrsquos quality management and initiated the introduction of the bachelor and masters degrees the program accreditation and the universityrsquos advanced training in didactics In the time between 2008 and her assumption of office in the universityrsquos executive committee she was dean of the faculty of Life Sciences and Technology

1314

Goula Kalypso

Kalypso Goula attended the American High School Anatolia in Thessaloniki Upon graduation in 1984 she studied Law at the Aristotle University where she earned her Bachelorrsquos Degree in Law in 1988 After she successfully passed her bar-exam she started practicing law in 1991 specializing in criminal civil and commercial law In 1995 she earned her Masterrsquos Degree in Commercial and Financial Law again from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki In 2008 she was elected member of the governing board of the Thessaloniki Bar Association In the municipal elections in 2010 she won a seat in the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki the second biggest city in Greece Since 2011 she has been appointed by the Mayor as Vice-Mayor responsible for social solidarity

Yalccedilıntan Murat

Murat Cemal Yalccedilıntan is a city planner a researcher and an activist He studied city and regional planning and conservation planning at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University He finished his PhD on the interrelation of globalisation local politics and planning decisions in İstanbul at the London School of Economics (1997-2005) Since he returned to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2002 to work as a lecturer he is associated professor and has been giving courses at graduate and post graduate levels such as Planning Studio Research Methods Globalisation and Urban Social Movements etc He also carried on administrative duties in the university such as the Head of the Regional Planning Unit and edited several publications He has been giving volunteer consultancy to the neighbourhood organisations since 2004 against forced eviction and forced renewalregeneration and has been part of civil initiatives that have been advocating the rights of the people in the neighbourhoods subject to regeneration and renewal

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Kock Liane

Liane Kock works since 2003 at the Office for Equal Opportunities that belongs on the technical level to the Senate Department for Labour Integration and Women Amongst other a main emphasis of the officersquos work is to conceptualise plan develop and coordinate the implementation of the Gender Equality Policy Framework throughout the Land of Berlin and interdepartmental in the Senatesrsquo and districtsrsquo administrations In this context she is responsible for the project management in the Senatersquos and Districtslsquo departments for committee-work and public relations

Droste Christiane

Christiane Droste owner and manager of the research and consultancy agency UrbanPlus (founded in 2006) is working as cultural- and social scientist and moderator Her research addresses integrated urban and neighbourhood development housing neighbourhood oriented participation structures and labour market initiatives urban governance and gender diversity aspects of these fields of action 2001-2005 she did research in European research projects on integrative urban- and neighbourhood development and large housing estates at the Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (Erkner) and lectured from 2006-2009 at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences on neighbourhood management practice and policies At present she is involved in international research on community oriented housing and policies As gendershyund diversity-consultant she supports public administration for example since 2006 the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment since 2008 the Senate Department for Public Health and Social Affairs and NGOs in her fields of research and also concerning public health consumerslsquo protection and public relations work Also she designs participation oriented projects in this context

314

CVs Chairs Kagel Ela

Ela Kagel develops as a freelance cultural producer events and strategies for open source technology media art and digital culture As a program curator of the Berlin festival transmediale she initiated in 2010 the Free Culture Incubator which is a series of events around the price and value of free creative work Since 2005 Ela Kagel works together with Public Art Lab Berlin where she initiated many media art projects for example Mobile Studios Upgrade Berlin or Mobicases In 2011 Ela Kagel founded SUPERMARKT Berlinacutes centre for creative resources As a creative director she is responsible for the monthly changing program with workshops conferences and events around digital culture Kagel holds a masteracutes degree in European Culture Planning at the De Montfort University (LeicesterUK) She gives on a regular basis lectures and moderates at international conferences for example transmediale Social Media Week republica Ars Electronica MUTEK Berlin Music Week or Future Everything

Walz Susanne

Susanne Walz is landscape planner and director of the urban development and regeneration agency LIST - Loumlsungen im Stadtteil Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft mbh From 1982 to 1989 she studied landscape planning at the Berlin Technical University (TU) Until 2000 she worked as a landscape architect at the planning office Oumlkologie und Planung (ecology and planning) and at the Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment in Berlin As research assistant and member of the work group for further education at the Institute for Management and Environmental Planning - TU Berlin Susanne Walz taught and developed further education programs for international environmental engineers Since 2000 she is doing neighbourhood work initially as assistant at ASUM GmbH in the redevelopment areas Samariterviertel and Warschauer Straszlige in Berlin-Friedrichshain afterwards as a project manager at the marketshyoriented neighbourhood marketing for the Stralauer Kiez in Berlin-Friedrichshain for BIS Stadtteilmanagement GmbH Since 2006 Susanne Walz is working at LIST mbH in the field of

414

neigbourhood management and project development Since 2011 she is the director of the company

Gerstenberg Frauke

Frauke Gerstenberg born 1968 in Berlin studied architecture at the Berlin University of Arts (HDK) and at the Barcelona Technical University for Architecture (ETSAB) and finished her studies in Berlin in 1998 with distinction (Max-Taut-Award) From 1999 to 2003 she worked for Sauerbruch Hutton Architekten in Berlin and was from 2003 to 2009 a teaching assistant of Prof Peter Ebner at the department for experimental housing projects at the Munich Technical University She also published books about experimental housing Since 2003 Gerstenberg works self-employed as an architect and a co-operation partner with raumlabor berlin on many projects in the area of conflict in urban space art and architecture with focus on public space and urban action strategies Important topics are participation in society process-oriented solution strategies artistic interventions and spaces of possibility as urban future Since 2013 Gerstenberg is partner in raumlabor berlin

Tummers Lidewij

Lidewij Tummers graduated in 1989 as building engineer at Delft Technical University After 10 years in practice she founded her own office based in Rotterdam Tussen Ruimte (Intermediate space) specializes in inclusive and sustainable approaches to architecture and urbanism Tummers has ample experience in applied research on planning instruments at different scales as well as international comparison From 2006 to date she is part-time tutor-researcher at the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft Chair of spatial planning and strategy She is teaching regional planning in the international master studies on urbanism Her main research areas are decentralized renewable energy networks innovation in planning instruments citizenrsquos initiatives in ecologicalcollective housing gender perspectives of spatial planning and architecture

514

Zeuner Nicole

Nicole Zeuner studied political sciences economics and history in Goumlttingen Berlin Munich and the USA and is since 2006 responsible for the area of work BerlinPolitik within the Berlin Forum of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Her responsibility in this area of work focuses particularly on dialogue oriented events on urban development

Droste Christiane

Christiane Droste owner and manager of the research and consultancy agency UrbanPlus (founded in 2006) is working as cultural- and social scientist and moderator Her research addresses integrated urban and neighbourhood development housing neighbourhood oriented participation structures and labour market initiatives urban governance and gender diversity aspects of these fields of action 2001-2005 she did research in European research projects on integrative urban- and neighbourhood development and large housing estates at the Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (Erkner) and lectured from 2006-2009 at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences on neighbourhood management practice and policies At present she is involved in international research on community oriented housing and policies

As gender- und diversity-consultant she supports public administration for example since 2006 the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment since 2008 the Senate Department for Public Health and Social Affairs and NGOs in her fields of research and also concerning public health consumerslsquo protection and public relations work Also she designs participation oriented projects in this context

614

Knorr-Siedow Thomas

Thomas Knorr-Siedow is urban sociologist and urban planner and senior partner at UrbanPlus He does research and consultancy on socially oriented urban development and housing knowledge based urban development and governance processes in Germany EU-countries (particularly Central and Eastern Europe) and in developing countries (Sri Lanka Vietnam) He has a sound experience in the conceptualisation of knowledge-based neighbourhood or urban development strategies and participation processes as well as in the moderation of steering processes in policy and administration and in the mediation of conflicts in urban development Also he has many years of experience with the management and organisation of project teams (team management team mediation training in communication and knowledge management group dynamics and adult education) the development of research strategies and communicative knowledge transfer in the state municipal and civil societyrsquos sector

Thomas Knorr-Siedow is since 1993 teaching at Cottbus Technical University (today BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg) and in different European universities (eg CEU Budapest TU Tallin) He is Coshycoordinator of the international working group Large Housing Estates and member of the Coordination Committee of the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) and member of the Netzwerk Berlin-Istanbul

714

Huning Sandra

Dr Sandra Huning studied spatial planning at Dortmund Technical University and at the University Pierre Mendegraves (France) Later she worked as a scientific assistant at the Berlin Institute for Social Research at the Institute of Sociology of the Technical University Berlin and at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Humanities She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate Research Program Berlin-New York Centre for Metropolitan Studies in Berlin Today Sandra Huning works as a scientific assistant at the faculty Urban and Region Sociology at Dortmund Technical University Furthermore she is a co-editor of the professional journal Planungsrundschau and amongst other she is member of the Berlin Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment During the winter term 201314 she holds a guest-professorship at the Berlin Humboldt Universityrsquos Institute for Geography

Muumlller Ines

Ines Muumlller studied sociology at Berlin Humboldt University She holds a diploma and works as a research assistant for the Institute for City Planning and Social Research Weeber+Partner since 1994 Since 1999 she is neighbourhood manager at High-Deck-SiedlungSonnenallee in Berlin-Neukoumllln Her field of work ranges from coordination of local practice including organisation and networking between social carriers and actors the development of an integrated action plan aiming at the involvement of residents She focuses on the development supervision and evaluation of projects dealing with different groups of actors and residents especially families from the arabic language area Turkey Southeast Europe and particularly Roma

814

Januszewski Uwe

Uwe Januszewski works since 1975 as civil servant at the administration of the State of Berlin initially at the District of Berlin-Tempelhof At present he works in the unit of the Gender Equality Representative of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment Between 1996 and 2010 he was member of the executive board from 2006 to 2010 chairman of the Main Staff Council of the State of Berlin

Schroumlder Anke

Anke Schroumlder PhD studied architecture and did her doctorate on Gender Mainstreaming and Housing at the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) She worked several years as a research assistant in the Department of Sociology of Planning and Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape at the LUH Since 2009 Schroumlder is a research assistant at the Lower Saxony State Investigation Department (LKA NI) and worked from 2009 to 2012 as project manager in the EUshyproject Planning urban Security ndash PluS Currently she works in the field of criminology research and statistics at the LKA NI and is the scientific project leader of the project Urban Safety funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Furthermore Schroumlder is a lecturer for the Sociology of Architecture at the LUH She represents the LKA in the Lower Saxony Partnership on Urban Safety and is an appointed member of the Women`s Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment in Berlin

914

Uken Sibylle

Sybille Uken living in Berlin is a graduated social economist and fully qualified lawyer She works as free-lance human resource and management consultant and as coach Since 2011 she is member of the Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Development and the Environment where her work focuses on mobility and traffic (especially mobility in the public space demography and mobility gender-equitable design of local public transport and public rail transport and social urban development) Moreover she is Chairwoman of the Committee of Experts of the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin where she is involved since many years

From 1999 to 2004 Sybille Uken was Member of the Supervisory Board of the Berlin Public Transportation Companies (BVG) and from 2002 to 2004 she the Economic Committee of the Supervisory Board Since 1972 she is engaged in several fields of voluntary work and was in 2002 awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her engagement in working with immigrant population

1014

CVs Respondents

Greve Katharina

Katharina Greve studied architecture at the Berlin Technical University Today she lives as comicdesigner cartoonist author and ex-architect in Berlin Apart from cartoons for the political satire magazin Titanic the daily newspapers Tagesspiegel (Berlin) and the Online-comic-portal electrocomicscom she published so far two graphic novels Ein Mann geht an die Decke (Die Biblyothek) ndash warded the ICOM Independent Comic Award category exceptional artwork ndash and Patchwork ndash Frau Doktor Waldbeck naumlht sich eine Familie (Guumltersloher Verlagshaus) In 2010 Katharina Greve was the first woman who was awarded the German Cartoon Award (Deutscher Cartoonpreis) for new talents in 2013 she was awarded the Sondermann Foumlrderpreis Since 2012 she is the designing member of the stage-quartett Pop-Puumlree

shy

1114

Reiszlig-Schmidt Stephan

After studying architecture and urban planning at the RWTH Aachen and training as a town planner in Nordrhein-Westfalen the graduated engineer Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt completed the civil service examination as Bauassessor (state construction assessment) In the following years he worked as the head of the Gelsenkirchen Urban Planning Office and as head of the planning department at the Communal Association of the Ruhr Area Since 1996 the todayacutes City Director was the Head of the Department of Urban Management at the Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulation of the City of Munich and since 2000 he is the Chairman of the Commission Urban Development Planning at the Deutscher Staumldtetag (German Association of Cities) Since 2008 Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt is furthermore chairman of the Bavarian regional faction in the Deutsche Akademie fuumlr Staumldtebau und Landesplanung (German Academy of Urban Development and Regional Planning)

Flade Luise

Luise Flade graduated in urban and a regional planning (Berlin and Rome) her key activities lie in the field of urban event management public relations and communication work digital media and the city In 2006 she co-founded the network urbanophilnet ndash Network for urban culture eV and is there responsible for public relations communication and the organization of various projects like film events panel discussions and city walks She blogs about the association and lectures (amongst others at HU Berlin and Kassel University) about their possibilities to influence processes in urban development Luise Flade wrote her diploma thesis Digitales Stadtgedaumlchtnis Neukoumllln (Digital urban memory Neukoumllln) about digital maps and memory Luise was also a project leader in social neighborhood projects for example in Valparaiacuteso Chile and Berlin-Charlottenburg Currently she works for the Bund Deutscher Architekten (Association of German Architects) in the unit for press and communication

1214

Kern Maren

After studying both law and architecture Maren Kern worked as a lawyer at a well-respected lawyerrsquos office in Berlin and focused on private and public building law In 1990 she was appointed Legal advisor of the Umbrella Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Building Companies (BBU) and in 1993 Special Representative of the Board of Management of the BBU In this function she supported building companies in Berlin and the new federal states to cope with the heavy challenges of the German reunification In the end of 1998 Kern took on the management of the BBU-subsidiary Domus Consult Wirtschaftsberatungsgesellschaft mbH Since 2009 Maren Kern is member of the BBU-Board of Management In this position she heads the field of interest that represents the needs of the member companies in dealings with politics administration and the public In addition she is Member of the Board of Management of the BBA Academy of Real Estate Management in Berlin Member of the Supervisory Board of the BBT GmbH and member of many more organizations and committees of the housing and real estate economy

Gross Monika

Monika Gross holds a PhD and professorship in Biology In 2011 she took up office as President of the Berlin Beuth Technical University where she was already in 1992 appointed professor for cell and molecular biology (at that time Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin) Before she did research at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg and at the University of California (IrvineUSA) Besides her teaching and researching activity she got involved in academic administration For example she was a Member of the Academic Senate and of the Academic Assembly Between 1997 and 2003 Gross was the Vice President for Teaching and Learning In this time she institutionalized the universityrsquos quality management and initiated the introduction of the bachelor and masters degrees the program accreditation and the universityrsquos advanced training in didactics In the time between 2008 and her assumption of office in the universityrsquos executive committee she was dean of the faculty of Life Sciences and Technology

1314

Goula Kalypso

Kalypso Goula attended the American High School Anatolia in Thessaloniki Upon graduation in 1984 she studied Law at the Aristotle University where she earned her Bachelorrsquos Degree in Law in 1988 After she successfully passed her bar-exam she started practicing law in 1991 specializing in criminal civil and commercial law In 1995 she earned her Masterrsquos Degree in Commercial and Financial Law again from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki In 2008 she was elected member of the governing board of the Thessaloniki Bar Association In the municipal elections in 2010 she won a seat in the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki the second biggest city in Greece Since 2011 she has been appointed by the Mayor as Vice-Mayor responsible for social solidarity

Yalccedilıntan Murat

Murat Cemal Yalccedilıntan is a city planner a researcher and an activist He studied city and regional planning and conservation planning at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University He finished his PhD on the interrelation of globalisation local politics and planning decisions in İstanbul at the London School of Economics (1997-2005) Since he returned to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2002 to work as a lecturer he is associated professor and has been giving courses at graduate and post graduate levels such as Planning Studio Research Methods Globalisation and Urban Social Movements etc He also carried on administrative duties in the university such as the Head of the Regional Planning Unit and edited several publications He has been giving volunteer consultancy to the neighbourhood organisations since 2004 against forced eviction and forced renewalregeneration and has been part of civil initiatives that have been advocating the rights of the people in the neighbourhoods subject to regeneration and renewal

1414

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CVs Chairs Kagel Ela

Ela Kagel develops as a freelance cultural producer events and strategies for open source technology media art and digital culture As a program curator of the Berlin festival transmediale she initiated in 2010 the Free Culture Incubator which is a series of events around the price and value of free creative work Since 2005 Ela Kagel works together with Public Art Lab Berlin where she initiated many media art projects for example Mobile Studios Upgrade Berlin or Mobicases In 2011 Ela Kagel founded SUPERMARKT Berlinacutes centre for creative resources As a creative director she is responsible for the monthly changing program with workshops conferences and events around digital culture Kagel holds a masteracutes degree in European Culture Planning at the De Montfort University (LeicesterUK) She gives on a regular basis lectures and moderates at international conferences for example transmediale Social Media Week republica Ars Electronica MUTEK Berlin Music Week or Future Everything

Walz Susanne

Susanne Walz is landscape planner and director of the urban development and regeneration agency LIST - Loumlsungen im Stadtteil Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft mbh From 1982 to 1989 she studied landscape planning at the Berlin Technical University (TU) Until 2000 she worked as a landscape architect at the planning office Oumlkologie und Planung (ecology and planning) and at the Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment in Berlin As research assistant and member of the work group for further education at the Institute for Management and Environmental Planning - TU Berlin Susanne Walz taught and developed further education programs for international environmental engineers Since 2000 she is doing neighbourhood work initially as assistant at ASUM GmbH in the redevelopment areas Samariterviertel and Warschauer Straszlige in Berlin-Friedrichshain afterwards as a project manager at the marketshyoriented neighbourhood marketing for the Stralauer Kiez in Berlin-Friedrichshain for BIS Stadtteilmanagement GmbH Since 2006 Susanne Walz is working at LIST mbH in the field of

414

neigbourhood management and project development Since 2011 she is the director of the company

Gerstenberg Frauke

Frauke Gerstenberg born 1968 in Berlin studied architecture at the Berlin University of Arts (HDK) and at the Barcelona Technical University for Architecture (ETSAB) and finished her studies in Berlin in 1998 with distinction (Max-Taut-Award) From 1999 to 2003 she worked for Sauerbruch Hutton Architekten in Berlin and was from 2003 to 2009 a teaching assistant of Prof Peter Ebner at the department for experimental housing projects at the Munich Technical University She also published books about experimental housing Since 2003 Gerstenberg works self-employed as an architect and a co-operation partner with raumlabor berlin on many projects in the area of conflict in urban space art and architecture with focus on public space and urban action strategies Important topics are participation in society process-oriented solution strategies artistic interventions and spaces of possibility as urban future Since 2013 Gerstenberg is partner in raumlabor berlin

Tummers Lidewij

Lidewij Tummers graduated in 1989 as building engineer at Delft Technical University After 10 years in practice she founded her own office based in Rotterdam Tussen Ruimte (Intermediate space) specializes in inclusive and sustainable approaches to architecture and urbanism Tummers has ample experience in applied research on planning instruments at different scales as well as international comparison From 2006 to date she is part-time tutor-researcher at the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft Chair of spatial planning and strategy She is teaching regional planning in the international master studies on urbanism Her main research areas are decentralized renewable energy networks innovation in planning instruments citizenrsquos initiatives in ecologicalcollective housing gender perspectives of spatial planning and architecture

514

Zeuner Nicole

Nicole Zeuner studied political sciences economics and history in Goumlttingen Berlin Munich and the USA and is since 2006 responsible for the area of work BerlinPolitik within the Berlin Forum of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Her responsibility in this area of work focuses particularly on dialogue oriented events on urban development

Droste Christiane

Christiane Droste owner and manager of the research and consultancy agency UrbanPlus (founded in 2006) is working as cultural- and social scientist and moderator Her research addresses integrated urban and neighbourhood development housing neighbourhood oriented participation structures and labour market initiatives urban governance and gender diversity aspects of these fields of action 2001-2005 she did research in European research projects on integrative urban- and neighbourhood development and large housing estates at the Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (Erkner) and lectured from 2006-2009 at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences on neighbourhood management practice and policies At present she is involved in international research on community oriented housing and policies

As gender- und diversity-consultant she supports public administration for example since 2006 the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment since 2008 the Senate Department for Public Health and Social Affairs and NGOs in her fields of research and also concerning public health consumerslsquo protection and public relations work Also she designs participation oriented projects in this context

614

Knorr-Siedow Thomas

Thomas Knorr-Siedow is urban sociologist and urban planner and senior partner at UrbanPlus He does research and consultancy on socially oriented urban development and housing knowledge based urban development and governance processes in Germany EU-countries (particularly Central and Eastern Europe) and in developing countries (Sri Lanka Vietnam) He has a sound experience in the conceptualisation of knowledge-based neighbourhood or urban development strategies and participation processes as well as in the moderation of steering processes in policy and administration and in the mediation of conflicts in urban development Also he has many years of experience with the management and organisation of project teams (team management team mediation training in communication and knowledge management group dynamics and adult education) the development of research strategies and communicative knowledge transfer in the state municipal and civil societyrsquos sector

Thomas Knorr-Siedow is since 1993 teaching at Cottbus Technical University (today BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg) and in different European universities (eg CEU Budapest TU Tallin) He is Coshycoordinator of the international working group Large Housing Estates and member of the Coordination Committee of the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) and member of the Netzwerk Berlin-Istanbul

714

Huning Sandra

Dr Sandra Huning studied spatial planning at Dortmund Technical University and at the University Pierre Mendegraves (France) Later she worked as a scientific assistant at the Berlin Institute for Social Research at the Institute of Sociology of the Technical University Berlin and at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Humanities She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate Research Program Berlin-New York Centre for Metropolitan Studies in Berlin Today Sandra Huning works as a scientific assistant at the faculty Urban and Region Sociology at Dortmund Technical University Furthermore she is a co-editor of the professional journal Planungsrundschau and amongst other she is member of the Berlin Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment During the winter term 201314 she holds a guest-professorship at the Berlin Humboldt Universityrsquos Institute for Geography

Muumlller Ines

Ines Muumlller studied sociology at Berlin Humboldt University She holds a diploma and works as a research assistant for the Institute for City Planning and Social Research Weeber+Partner since 1994 Since 1999 she is neighbourhood manager at High-Deck-SiedlungSonnenallee in Berlin-Neukoumllln Her field of work ranges from coordination of local practice including organisation and networking between social carriers and actors the development of an integrated action plan aiming at the involvement of residents She focuses on the development supervision and evaluation of projects dealing with different groups of actors and residents especially families from the arabic language area Turkey Southeast Europe and particularly Roma

814

Januszewski Uwe

Uwe Januszewski works since 1975 as civil servant at the administration of the State of Berlin initially at the District of Berlin-Tempelhof At present he works in the unit of the Gender Equality Representative of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment Between 1996 and 2010 he was member of the executive board from 2006 to 2010 chairman of the Main Staff Council of the State of Berlin

Schroumlder Anke

Anke Schroumlder PhD studied architecture and did her doctorate on Gender Mainstreaming and Housing at the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) She worked several years as a research assistant in the Department of Sociology of Planning and Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape at the LUH Since 2009 Schroumlder is a research assistant at the Lower Saxony State Investigation Department (LKA NI) and worked from 2009 to 2012 as project manager in the EUshyproject Planning urban Security ndash PluS Currently she works in the field of criminology research and statistics at the LKA NI and is the scientific project leader of the project Urban Safety funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Furthermore Schroumlder is a lecturer for the Sociology of Architecture at the LUH She represents the LKA in the Lower Saxony Partnership on Urban Safety and is an appointed member of the Women`s Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment in Berlin

914

Uken Sibylle

Sybille Uken living in Berlin is a graduated social economist and fully qualified lawyer She works as free-lance human resource and management consultant and as coach Since 2011 she is member of the Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Development and the Environment where her work focuses on mobility and traffic (especially mobility in the public space demography and mobility gender-equitable design of local public transport and public rail transport and social urban development) Moreover she is Chairwoman of the Committee of Experts of the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin where she is involved since many years

From 1999 to 2004 Sybille Uken was Member of the Supervisory Board of the Berlin Public Transportation Companies (BVG) and from 2002 to 2004 she the Economic Committee of the Supervisory Board Since 1972 she is engaged in several fields of voluntary work and was in 2002 awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her engagement in working with immigrant population

1014

CVs Respondents

Greve Katharina

Katharina Greve studied architecture at the Berlin Technical University Today she lives as comicdesigner cartoonist author and ex-architect in Berlin Apart from cartoons for the political satire magazin Titanic the daily newspapers Tagesspiegel (Berlin) and the Online-comic-portal electrocomicscom she published so far two graphic novels Ein Mann geht an die Decke (Die Biblyothek) ndash warded the ICOM Independent Comic Award category exceptional artwork ndash and Patchwork ndash Frau Doktor Waldbeck naumlht sich eine Familie (Guumltersloher Verlagshaus) In 2010 Katharina Greve was the first woman who was awarded the German Cartoon Award (Deutscher Cartoonpreis) for new talents in 2013 she was awarded the Sondermann Foumlrderpreis Since 2012 she is the designing member of the stage-quartett Pop-Puumlree

shy

1114

Reiszlig-Schmidt Stephan

After studying architecture and urban planning at the RWTH Aachen and training as a town planner in Nordrhein-Westfalen the graduated engineer Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt completed the civil service examination as Bauassessor (state construction assessment) In the following years he worked as the head of the Gelsenkirchen Urban Planning Office and as head of the planning department at the Communal Association of the Ruhr Area Since 1996 the todayacutes City Director was the Head of the Department of Urban Management at the Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulation of the City of Munich and since 2000 he is the Chairman of the Commission Urban Development Planning at the Deutscher Staumldtetag (German Association of Cities) Since 2008 Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt is furthermore chairman of the Bavarian regional faction in the Deutsche Akademie fuumlr Staumldtebau und Landesplanung (German Academy of Urban Development and Regional Planning)

Flade Luise

Luise Flade graduated in urban and a regional planning (Berlin and Rome) her key activities lie in the field of urban event management public relations and communication work digital media and the city In 2006 she co-founded the network urbanophilnet ndash Network for urban culture eV and is there responsible for public relations communication and the organization of various projects like film events panel discussions and city walks She blogs about the association and lectures (amongst others at HU Berlin and Kassel University) about their possibilities to influence processes in urban development Luise Flade wrote her diploma thesis Digitales Stadtgedaumlchtnis Neukoumllln (Digital urban memory Neukoumllln) about digital maps and memory Luise was also a project leader in social neighborhood projects for example in Valparaiacuteso Chile and Berlin-Charlottenburg Currently she works for the Bund Deutscher Architekten (Association of German Architects) in the unit for press and communication

1214

Kern Maren

After studying both law and architecture Maren Kern worked as a lawyer at a well-respected lawyerrsquos office in Berlin and focused on private and public building law In 1990 she was appointed Legal advisor of the Umbrella Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Building Companies (BBU) and in 1993 Special Representative of the Board of Management of the BBU In this function she supported building companies in Berlin and the new federal states to cope with the heavy challenges of the German reunification In the end of 1998 Kern took on the management of the BBU-subsidiary Domus Consult Wirtschaftsberatungsgesellschaft mbH Since 2009 Maren Kern is member of the BBU-Board of Management In this position she heads the field of interest that represents the needs of the member companies in dealings with politics administration and the public In addition she is Member of the Board of Management of the BBA Academy of Real Estate Management in Berlin Member of the Supervisory Board of the BBT GmbH and member of many more organizations and committees of the housing and real estate economy

Gross Monika

Monika Gross holds a PhD and professorship in Biology In 2011 she took up office as President of the Berlin Beuth Technical University where she was already in 1992 appointed professor for cell and molecular biology (at that time Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin) Before she did research at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg and at the University of California (IrvineUSA) Besides her teaching and researching activity she got involved in academic administration For example she was a Member of the Academic Senate and of the Academic Assembly Between 1997 and 2003 Gross was the Vice President for Teaching and Learning In this time she institutionalized the universityrsquos quality management and initiated the introduction of the bachelor and masters degrees the program accreditation and the universityrsquos advanced training in didactics In the time between 2008 and her assumption of office in the universityrsquos executive committee she was dean of the faculty of Life Sciences and Technology

1314

Goula Kalypso

Kalypso Goula attended the American High School Anatolia in Thessaloniki Upon graduation in 1984 she studied Law at the Aristotle University where she earned her Bachelorrsquos Degree in Law in 1988 After she successfully passed her bar-exam she started practicing law in 1991 specializing in criminal civil and commercial law In 1995 she earned her Masterrsquos Degree in Commercial and Financial Law again from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki In 2008 she was elected member of the governing board of the Thessaloniki Bar Association In the municipal elections in 2010 she won a seat in the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki the second biggest city in Greece Since 2011 she has been appointed by the Mayor as Vice-Mayor responsible for social solidarity

Yalccedilıntan Murat

Murat Cemal Yalccedilıntan is a city planner a researcher and an activist He studied city and regional planning and conservation planning at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University He finished his PhD on the interrelation of globalisation local politics and planning decisions in İstanbul at the London School of Economics (1997-2005) Since he returned to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2002 to work as a lecturer he is associated professor and has been giving courses at graduate and post graduate levels such as Planning Studio Research Methods Globalisation and Urban Social Movements etc He also carried on administrative duties in the university such as the Head of the Regional Planning Unit and edited several publications He has been giving volunteer consultancy to the neighbourhood organisations since 2004 against forced eviction and forced renewalregeneration and has been part of civil initiatives that have been advocating the rights of the people in the neighbourhoods subject to regeneration and renewal

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neigbourhood management and project development Since 2011 she is the director of the company

Gerstenberg Frauke

Frauke Gerstenberg born 1968 in Berlin studied architecture at the Berlin University of Arts (HDK) and at the Barcelona Technical University for Architecture (ETSAB) and finished her studies in Berlin in 1998 with distinction (Max-Taut-Award) From 1999 to 2003 she worked for Sauerbruch Hutton Architekten in Berlin and was from 2003 to 2009 a teaching assistant of Prof Peter Ebner at the department for experimental housing projects at the Munich Technical University She also published books about experimental housing Since 2003 Gerstenberg works self-employed as an architect and a co-operation partner with raumlabor berlin on many projects in the area of conflict in urban space art and architecture with focus on public space and urban action strategies Important topics are participation in society process-oriented solution strategies artistic interventions and spaces of possibility as urban future Since 2013 Gerstenberg is partner in raumlabor berlin

Tummers Lidewij

Lidewij Tummers graduated in 1989 as building engineer at Delft Technical University After 10 years in practice she founded her own office based in Rotterdam Tussen Ruimte (Intermediate space) specializes in inclusive and sustainable approaches to architecture and urbanism Tummers has ample experience in applied research on planning instruments at different scales as well as international comparison From 2006 to date she is part-time tutor-researcher at the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft Chair of spatial planning and strategy She is teaching regional planning in the international master studies on urbanism Her main research areas are decentralized renewable energy networks innovation in planning instruments citizenrsquos initiatives in ecologicalcollective housing gender perspectives of spatial planning and architecture

514

Zeuner Nicole

Nicole Zeuner studied political sciences economics and history in Goumlttingen Berlin Munich and the USA and is since 2006 responsible for the area of work BerlinPolitik within the Berlin Forum of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Her responsibility in this area of work focuses particularly on dialogue oriented events on urban development

Droste Christiane

Christiane Droste owner and manager of the research and consultancy agency UrbanPlus (founded in 2006) is working as cultural- and social scientist and moderator Her research addresses integrated urban and neighbourhood development housing neighbourhood oriented participation structures and labour market initiatives urban governance and gender diversity aspects of these fields of action 2001-2005 she did research in European research projects on integrative urban- and neighbourhood development and large housing estates at the Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (Erkner) and lectured from 2006-2009 at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences on neighbourhood management practice and policies At present she is involved in international research on community oriented housing and policies

As gender- und diversity-consultant she supports public administration for example since 2006 the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment since 2008 the Senate Department for Public Health and Social Affairs and NGOs in her fields of research and also concerning public health consumerslsquo protection and public relations work Also she designs participation oriented projects in this context

614

Knorr-Siedow Thomas

Thomas Knorr-Siedow is urban sociologist and urban planner and senior partner at UrbanPlus He does research and consultancy on socially oriented urban development and housing knowledge based urban development and governance processes in Germany EU-countries (particularly Central and Eastern Europe) and in developing countries (Sri Lanka Vietnam) He has a sound experience in the conceptualisation of knowledge-based neighbourhood or urban development strategies and participation processes as well as in the moderation of steering processes in policy and administration and in the mediation of conflicts in urban development Also he has many years of experience with the management and organisation of project teams (team management team mediation training in communication and knowledge management group dynamics and adult education) the development of research strategies and communicative knowledge transfer in the state municipal and civil societyrsquos sector

Thomas Knorr-Siedow is since 1993 teaching at Cottbus Technical University (today BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg) and in different European universities (eg CEU Budapest TU Tallin) He is Coshycoordinator of the international working group Large Housing Estates and member of the Coordination Committee of the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) and member of the Netzwerk Berlin-Istanbul

714

Huning Sandra

Dr Sandra Huning studied spatial planning at Dortmund Technical University and at the University Pierre Mendegraves (France) Later she worked as a scientific assistant at the Berlin Institute for Social Research at the Institute of Sociology of the Technical University Berlin and at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Humanities She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate Research Program Berlin-New York Centre for Metropolitan Studies in Berlin Today Sandra Huning works as a scientific assistant at the faculty Urban and Region Sociology at Dortmund Technical University Furthermore she is a co-editor of the professional journal Planungsrundschau and amongst other she is member of the Berlin Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment During the winter term 201314 she holds a guest-professorship at the Berlin Humboldt Universityrsquos Institute for Geography

Muumlller Ines

Ines Muumlller studied sociology at Berlin Humboldt University She holds a diploma and works as a research assistant for the Institute for City Planning and Social Research Weeber+Partner since 1994 Since 1999 she is neighbourhood manager at High-Deck-SiedlungSonnenallee in Berlin-Neukoumllln Her field of work ranges from coordination of local practice including organisation and networking between social carriers and actors the development of an integrated action plan aiming at the involvement of residents She focuses on the development supervision and evaluation of projects dealing with different groups of actors and residents especially families from the arabic language area Turkey Southeast Europe and particularly Roma

814

Januszewski Uwe

Uwe Januszewski works since 1975 as civil servant at the administration of the State of Berlin initially at the District of Berlin-Tempelhof At present he works in the unit of the Gender Equality Representative of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment Between 1996 and 2010 he was member of the executive board from 2006 to 2010 chairman of the Main Staff Council of the State of Berlin

Schroumlder Anke

Anke Schroumlder PhD studied architecture and did her doctorate on Gender Mainstreaming and Housing at the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) She worked several years as a research assistant in the Department of Sociology of Planning and Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape at the LUH Since 2009 Schroumlder is a research assistant at the Lower Saxony State Investigation Department (LKA NI) and worked from 2009 to 2012 as project manager in the EUshyproject Planning urban Security ndash PluS Currently she works in the field of criminology research and statistics at the LKA NI and is the scientific project leader of the project Urban Safety funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Furthermore Schroumlder is a lecturer for the Sociology of Architecture at the LUH She represents the LKA in the Lower Saxony Partnership on Urban Safety and is an appointed member of the Women`s Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment in Berlin

914

Uken Sibylle

Sybille Uken living in Berlin is a graduated social economist and fully qualified lawyer She works as free-lance human resource and management consultant and as coach Since 2011 she is member of the Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Development and the Environment where her work focuses on mobility and traffic (especially mobility in the public space demography and mobility gender-equitable design of local public transport and public rail transport and social urban development) Moreover she is Chairwoman of the Committee of Experts of the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin where she is involved since many years

From 1999 to 2004 Sybille Uken was Member of the Supervisory Board of the Berlin Public Transportation Companies (BVG) and from 2002 to 2004 she the Economic Committee of the Supervisory Board Since 1972 she is engaged in several fields of voluntary work and was in 2002 awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her engagement in working with immigrant population

1014

CVs Respondents

Greve Katharina

Katharina Greve studied architecture at the Berlin Technical University Today she lives as comicdesigner cartoonist author and ex-architect in Berlin Apart from cartoons for the political satire magazin Titanic the daily newspapers Tagesspiegel (Berlin) and the Online-comic-portal electrocomicscom she published so far two graphic novels Ein Mann geht an die Decke (Die Biblyothek) ndash warded the ICOM Independent Comic Award category exceptional artwork ndash and Patchwork ndash Frau Doktor Waldbeck naumlht sich eine Familie (Guumltersloher Verlagshaus) In 2010 Katharina Greve was the first woman who was awarded the German Cartoon Award (Deutscher Cartoonpreis) for new talents in 2013 she was awarded the Sondermann Foumlrderpreis Since 2012 she is the designing member of the stage-quartett Pop-Puumlree

shy

1114

Reiszlig-Schmidt Stephan

After studying architecture and urban planning at the RWTH Aachen and training as a town planner in Nordrhein-Westfalen the graduated engineer Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt completed the civil service examination as Bauassessor (state construction assessment) In the following years he worked as the head of the Gelsenkirchen Urban Planning Office and as head of the planning department at the Communal Association of the Ruhr Area Since 1996 the todayacutes City Director was the Head of the Department of Urban Management at the Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulation of the City of Munich and since 2000 he is the Chairman of the Commission Urban Development Planning at the Deutscher Staumldtetag (German Association of Cities) Since 2008 Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt is furthermore chairman of the Bavarian regional faction in the Deutsche Akademie fuumlr Staumldtebau und Landesplanung (German Academy of Urban Development and Regional Planning)

Flade Luise

Luise Flade graduated in urban and a regional planning (Berlin and Rome) her key activities lie in the field of urban event management public relations and communication work digital media and the city In 2006 she co-founded the network urbanophilnet ndash Network for urban culture eV and is there responsible for public relations communication and the organization of various projects like film events panel discussions and city walks She blogs about the association and lectures (amongst others at HU Berlin and Kassel University) about their possibilities to influence processes in urban development Luise Flade wrote her diploma thesis Digitales Stadtgedaumlchtnis Neukoumllln (Digital urban memory Neukoumllln) about digital maps and memory Luise was also a project leader in social neighborhood projects for example in Valparaiacuteso Chile and Berlin-Charlottenburg Currently she works for the Bund Deutscher Architekten (Association of German Architects) in the unit for press and communication

1214

Kern Maren

After studying both law and architecture Maren Kern worked as a lawyer at a well-respected lawyerrsquos office in Berlin and focused on private and public building law In 1990 she was appointed Legal advisor of the Umbrella Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Building Companies (BBU) and in 1993 Special Representative of the Board of Management of the BBU In this function she supported building companies in Berlin and the new federal states to cope with the heavy challenges of the German reunification In the end of 1998 Kern took on the management of the BBU-subsidiary Domus Consult Wirtschaftsberatungsgesellschaft mbH Since 2009 Maren Kern is member of the BBU-Board of Management In this position she heads the field of interest that represents the needs of the member companies in dealings with politics administration and the public In addition she is Member of the Board of Management of the BBA Academy of Real Estate Management in Berlin Member of the Supervisory Board of the BBT GmbH and member of many more organizations and committees of the housing and real estate economy

Gross Monika

Monika Gross holds a PhD and professorship in Biology In 2011 she took up office as President of the Berlin Beuth Technical University where she was already in 1992 appointed professor for cell and molecular biology (at that time Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin) Before she did research at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg and at the University of California (IrvineUSA) Besides her teaching and researching activity she got involved in academic administration For example she was a Member of the Academic Senate and of the Academic Assembly Between 1997 and 2003 Gross was the Vice President for Teaching and Learning In this time she institutionalized the universityrsquos quality management and initiated the introduction of the bachelor and masters degrees the program accreditation and the universityrsquos advanced training in didactics In the time between 2008 and her assumption of office in the universityrsquos executive committee she was dean of the faculty of Life Sciences and Technology

1314

Goula Kalypso

Kalypso Goula attended the American High School Anatolia in Thessaloniki Upon graduation in 1984 she studied Law at the Aristotle University where she earned her Bachelorrsquos Degree in Law in 1988 After she successfully passed her bar-exam she started practicing law in 1991 specializing in criminal civil and commercial law In 1995 she earned her Masterrsquos Degree in Commercial and Financial Law again from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki In 2008 she was elected member of the governing board of the Thessaloniki Bar Association In the municipal elections in 2010 she won a seat in the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki the second biggest city in Greece Since 2011 she has been appointed by the Mayor as Vice-Mayor responsible for social solidarity

Yalccedilıntan Murat

Murat Cemal Yalccedilıntan is a city planner a researcher and an activist He studied city and regional planning and conservation planning at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University He finished his PhD on the interrelation of globalisation local politics and planning decisions in İstanbul at the London School of Economics (1997-2005) Since he returned to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2002 to work as a lecturer he is associated professor and has been giving courses at graduate and post graduate levels such as Planning Studio Research Methods Globalisation and Urban Social Movements etc He also carried on administrative duties in the university such as the Head of the Regional Planning Unit and edited several publications He has been giving volunteer consultancy to the neighbourhood organisations since 2004 against forced eviction and forced renewalregeneration and has been part of civil initiatives that have been advocating the rights of the people in the neighbourhoods subject to regeneration and renewal

1414

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Zeuner Nicole

Nicole Zeuner studied political sciences economics and history in Goumlttingen Berlin Munich and the USA and is since 2006 responsible for the area of work BerlinPolitik within the Berlin Forum of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Her responsibility in this area of work focuses particularly on dialogue oriented events on urban development

Droste Christiane

Christiane Droste owner and manager of the research and consultancy agency UrbanPlus (founded in 2006) is working as cultural- and social scientist and moderator Her research addresses integrated urban and neighbourhood development housing neighbourhood oriented participation structures and labour market initiatives urban governance and gender diversity aspects of these fields of action 2001-2005 she did research in European research projects on integrative urban- and neighbourhood development and large housing estates at the Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (Erkner) and lectured from 2006-2009 at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences on neighbourhood management practice and policies At present she is involved in international research on community oriented housing and policies

As gender- und diversity-consultant she supports public administration for example since 2006 the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment since 2008 the Senate Department for Public Health and Social Affairs and NGOs in her fields of research and also concerning public health consumerslsquo protection and public relations work Also she designs participation oriented projects in this context

614

Knorr-Siedow Thomas

Thomas Knorr-Siedow is urban sociologist and urban planner and senior partner at UrbanPlus He does research and consultancy on socially oriented urban development and housing knowledge based urban development and governance processes in Germany EU-countries (particularly Central and Eastern Europe) and in developing countries (Sri Lanka Vietnam) He has a sound experience in the conceptualisation of knowledge-based neighbourhood or urban development strategies and participation processes as well as in the moderation of steering processes in policy and administration and in the mediation of conflicts in urban development Also he has many years of experience with the management and organisation of project teams (team management team mediation training in communication and knowledge management group dynamics and adult education) the development of research strategies and communicative knowledge transfer in the state municipal and civil societyrsquos sector

Thomas Knorr-Siedow is since 1993 teaching at Cottbus Technical University (today BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg) and in different European universities (eg CEU Budapest TU Tallin) He is Coshycoordinator of the international working group Large Housing Estates and member of the Coordination Committee of the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) and member of the Netzwerk Berlin-Istanbul

714

Huning Sandra

Dr Sandra Huning studied spatial planning at Dortmund Technical University and at the University Pierre Mendegraves (France) Later she worked as a scientific assistant at the Berlin Institute for Social Research at the Institute of Sociology of the Technical University Berlin and at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Humanities She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate Research Program Berlin-New York Centre for Metropolitan Studies in Berlin Today Sandra Huning works as a scientific assistant at the faculty Urban and Region Sociology at Dortmund Technical University Furthermore she is a co-editor of the professional journal Planungsrundschau and amongst other she is member of the Berlin Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment During the winter term 201314 she holds a guest-professorship at the Berlin Humboldt Universityrsquos Institute for Geography

Muumlller Ines

Ines Muumlller studied sociology at Berlin Humboldt University She holds a diploma and works as a research assistant for the Institute for City Planning and Social Research Weeber+Partner since 1994 Since 1999 she is neighbourhood manager at High-Deck-SiedlungSonnenallee in Berlin-Neukoumllln Her field of work ranges from coordination of local practice including organisation and networking between social carriers and actors the development of an integrated action plan aiming at the involvement of residents She focuses on the development supervision and evaluation of projects dealing with different groups of actors and residents especially families from the arabic language area Turkey Southeast Europe and particularly Roma

814

Januszewski Uwe

Uwe Januszewski works since 1975 as civil servant at the administration of the State of Berlin initially at the District of Berlin-Tempelhof At present he works in the unit of the Gender Equality Representative of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment Between 1996 and 2010 he was member of the executive board from 2006 to 2010 chairman of the Main Staff Council of the State of Berlin

Schroumlder Anke

Anke Schroumlder PhD studied architecture and did her doctorate on Gender Mainstreaming and Housing at the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) She worked several years as a research assistant in the Department of Sociology of Planning and Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape at the LUH Since 2009 Schroumlder is a research assistant at the Lower Saxony State Investigation Department (LKA NI) and worked from 2009 to 2012 as project manager in the EUshyproject Planning urban Security ndash PluS Currently she works in the field of criminology research and statistics at the LKA NI and is the scientific project leader of the project Urban Safety funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Furthermore Schroumlder is a lecturer for the Sociology of Architecture at the LUH She represents the LKA in the Lower Saxony Partnership on Urban Safety and is an appointed member of the Women`s Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment in Berlin

914

Uken Sibylle

Sybille Uken living in Berlin is a graduated social economist and fully qualified lawyer She works as free-lance human resource and management consultant and as coach Since 2011 she is member of the Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Development and the Environment where her work focuses on mobility and traffic (especially mobility in the public space demography and mobility gender-equitable design of local public transport and public rail transport and social urban development) Moreover she is Chairwoman of the Committee of Experts of the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin where she is involved since many years

From 1999 to 2004 Sybille Uken was Member of the Supervisory Board of the Berlin Public Transportation Companies (BVG) and from 2002 to 2004 she the Economic Committee of the Supervisory Board Since 1972 she is engaged in several fields of voluntary work and was in 2002 awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her engagement in working with immigrant population

1014

CVs Respondents

Greve Katharina

Katharina Greve studied architecture at the Berlin Technical University Today she lives as comicdesigner cartoonist author and ex-architect in Berlin Apart from cartoons for the political satire magazin Titanic the daily newspapers Tagesspiegel (Berlin) and the Online-comic-portal electrocomicscom she published so far two graphic novels Ein Mann geht an die Decke (Die Biblyothek) ndash warded the ICOM Independent Comic Award category exceptional artwork ndash and Patchwork ndash Frau Doktor Waldbeck naumlht sich eine Familie (Guumltersloher Verlagshaus) In 2010 Katharina Greve was the first woman who was awarded the German Cartoon Award (Deutscher Cartoonpreis) for new talents in 2013 she was awarded the Sondermann Foumlrderpreis Since 2012 she is the designing member of the stage-quartett Pop-Puumlree

shy

1114

Reiszlig-Schmidt Stephan

After studying architecture and urban planning at the RWTH Aachen and training as a town planner in Nordrhein-Westfalen the graduated engineer Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt completed the civil service examination as Bauassessor (state construction assessment) In the following years he worked as the head of the Gelsenkirchen Urban Planning Office and as head of the planning department at the Communal Association of the Ruhr Area Since 1996 the todayacutes City Director was the Head of the Department of Urban Management at the Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulation of the City of Munich and since 2000 he is the Chairman of the Commission Urban Development Planning at the Deutscher Staumldtetag (German Association of Cities) Since 2008 Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt is furthermore chairman of the Bavarian regional faction in the Deutsche Akademie fuumlr Staumldtebau und Landesplanung (German Academy of Urban Development and Regional Planning)

Flade Luise

Luise Flade graduated in urban and a regional planning (Berlin and Rome) her key activities lie in the field of urban event management public relations and communication work digital media and the city In 2006 she co-founded the network urbanophilnet ndash Network for urban culture eV and is there responsible for public relations communication and the organization of various projects like film events panel discussions and city walks She blogs about the association and lectures (amongst others at HU Berlin and Kassel University) about their possibilities to influence processes in urban development Luise Flade wrote her diploma thesis Digitales Stadtgedaumlchtnis Neukoumllln (Digital urban memory Neukoumllln) about digital maps and memory Luise was also a project leader in social neighborhood projects for example in Valparaiacuteso Chile and Berlin-Charlottenburg Currently she works for the Bund Deutscher Architekten (Association of German Architects) in the unit for press and communication

1214

Kern Maren

After studying both law and architecture Maren Kern worked as a lawyer at a well-respected lawyerrsquos office in Berlin and focused on private and public building law In 1990 she was appointed Legal advisor of the Umbrella Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Building Companies (BBU) and in 1993 Special Representative of the Board of Management of the BBU In this function she supported building companies in Berlin and the new federal states to cope with the heavy challenges of the German reunification In the end of 1998 Kern took on the management of the BBU-subsidiary Domus Consult Wirtschaftsberatungsgesellschaft mbH Since 2009 Maren Kern is member of the BBU-Board of Management In this position she heads the field of interest that represents the needs of the member companies in dealings with politics administration and the public In addition she is Member of the Board of Management of the BBA Academy of Real Estate Management in Berlin Member of the Supervisory Board of the BBT GmbH and member of many more organizations and committees of the housing and real estate economy

Gross Monika

Monika Gross holds a PhD and professorship in Biology In 2011 she took up office as President of the Berlin Beuth Technical University where she was already in 1992 appointed professor for cell and molecular biology (at that time Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin) Before she did research at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg and at the University of California (IrvineUSA) Besides her teaching and researching activity she got involved in academic administration For example she was a Member of the Academic Senate and of the Academic Assembly Between 1997 and 2003 Gross was the Vice President for Teaching and Learning In this time she institutionalized the universityrsquos quality management and initiated the introduction of the bachelor and masters degrees the program accreditation and the universityrsquos advanced training in didactics In the time between 2008 and her assumption of office in the universityrsquos executive committee she was dean of the faculty of Life Sciences and Technology

1314

Goula Kalypso

Kalypso Goula attended the American High School Anatolia in Thessaloniki Upon graduation in 1984 she studied Law at the Aristotle University where she earned her Bachelorrsquos Degree in Law in 1988 After she successfully passed her bar-exam she started practicing law in 1991 specializing in criminal civil and commercial law In 1995 she earned her Masterrsquos Degree in Commercial and Financial Law again from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki In 2008 she was elected member of the governing board of the Thessaloniki Bar Association In the municipal elections in 2010 she won a seat in the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki the second biggest city in Greece Since 2011 she has been appointed by the Mayor as Vice-Mayor responsible for social solidarity

Yalccedilıntan Murat

Murat Cemal Yalccedilıntan is a city planner a researcher and an activist He studied city and regional planning and conservation planning at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University He finished his PhD on the interrelation of globalisation local politics and planning decisions in İstanbul at the London School of Economics (1997-2005) Since he returned to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2002 to work as a lecturer he is associated professor and has been giving courses at graduate and post graduate levels such as Planning Studio Research Methods Globalisation and Urban Social Movements etc He also carried on administrative duties in the university such as the Head of the Regional Planning Unit and edited several publications He has been giving volunteer consultancy to the neighbourhood organisations since 2004 against forced eviction and forced renewalregeneration and has been part of civil initiatives that have been advocating the rights of the people in the neighbourhoods subject to regeneration and renewal

1414

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Knorr-Siedow Thomas

Thomas Knorr-Siedow is urban sociologist and urban planner and senior partner at UrbanPlus He does research and consultancy on socially oriented urban development and housing knowledge based urban development and governance processes in Germany EU-countries (particularly Central and Eastern Europe) and in developing countries (Sri Lanka Vietnam) He has a sound experience in the conceptualisation of knowledge-based neighbourhood or urban development strategies and participation processes as well as in the moderation of steering processes in policy and administration and in the mediation of conflicts in urban development Also he has many years of experience with the management and organisation of project teams (team management team mediation training in communication and knowledge management group dynamics and adult education) the development of research strategies and communicative knowledge transfer in the state municipal and civil societyrsquos sector

Thomas Knorr-Siedow is since 1993 teaching at Cottbus Technical University (today BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg) and in different European universities (eg CEU Budapest TU Tallin) He is Coshycoordinator of the international working group Large Housing Estates and member of the Coordination Committee of the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) and member of the Netzwerk Berlin-Istanbul

714

Huning Sandra

Dr Sandra Huning studied spatial planning at Dortmund Technical University and at the University Pierre Mendegraves (France) Later she worked as a scientific assistant at the Berlin Institute for Social Research at the Institute of Sociology of the Technical University Berlin and at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Humanities She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate Research Program Berlin-New York Centre for Metropolitan Studies in Berlin Today Sandra Huning works as a scientific assistant at the faculty Urban and Region Sociology at Dortmund Technical University Furthermore she is a co-editor of the professional journal Planungsrundschau and amongst other she is member of the Berlin Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment During the winter term 201314 she holds a guest-professorship at the Berlin Humboldt Universityrsquos Institute for Geography

Muumlller Ines

Ines Muumlller studied sociology at Berlin Humboldt University She holds a diploma and works as a research assistant for the Institute for City Planning and Social Research Weeber+Partner since 1994 Since 1999 she is neighbourhood manager at High-Deck-SiedlungSonnenallee in Berlin-Neukoumllln Her field of work ranges from coordination of local practice including organisation and networking between social carriers and actors the development of an integrated action plan aiming at the involvement of residents She focuses on the development supervision and evaluation of projects dealing with different groups of actors and residents especially families from the arabic language area Turkey Southeast Europe and particularly Roma

814

Januszewski Uwe

Uwe Januszewski works since 1975 as civil servant at the administration of the State of Berlin initially at the District of Berlin-Tempelhof At present he works in the unit of the Gender Equality Representative of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment Between 1996 and 2010 he was member of the executive board from 2006 to 2010 chairman of the Main Staff Council of the State of Berlin

Schroumlder Anke

Anke Schroumlder PhD studied architecture and did her doctorate on Gender Mainstreaming and Housing at the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) She worked several years as a research assistant in the Department of Sociology of Planning and Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape at the LUH Since 2009 Schroumlder is a research assistant at the Lower Saxony State Investigation Department (LKA NI) and worked from 2009 to 2012 as project manager in the EUshyproject Planning urban Security ndash PluS Currently she works in the field of criminology research and statistics at the LKA NI and is the scientific project leader of the project Urban Safety funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Furthermore Schroumlder is a lecturer for the Sociology of Architecture at the LUH She represents the LKA in the Lower Saxony Partnership on Urban Safety and is an appointed member of the Women`s Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment in Berlin

914

Uken Sibylle

Sybille Uken living in Berlin is a graduated social economist and fully qualified lawyer She works as free-lance human resource and management consultant and as coach Since 2011 she is member of the Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Development and the Environment where her work focuses on mobility and traffic (especially mobility in the public space demography and mobility gender-equitable design of local public transport and public rail transport and social urban development) Moreover she is Chairwoman of the Committee of Experts of the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin where she is involved since many years

From 1999 to 2004 Sybille Uken was Member of the Supervisory Board of the Berlin Public Transportation Companies (BVG) and from 2002 to 2004 she the Economic Committee of the Supervisory Board Since 1972 she is engaged in several fields of voluntary work and was in 2002 awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her engagement in working with immigrant population

1014

CVs Respondents

Greve Katharina

Katharina Greve studied architecture at the Berlin Technical University Today she lives as comicdesigner cartoonist author and ex-architect in Berlin Apart from cartoons for the political satire magazin Titanic the daily newspapers Tagesspiegel (Berlin) and the Online-comic-portal electrocomicscom she published so far two graphic novels Ein Mann geht an die Decke (Die Biblyothek) ndash warded the ICOM Independent Comic Award category exceptional artwork ndash and Patchwork ndash Frau Doktor Waldbeck naumlht sich eine Familie (Guumltersloher Verlagshaus) In 2010 Katharina Greve was the first woman who was awarded the German Cartoon Award (Deutscher Cartoonpreis) for new talents in 2013 she was awarded the Sondermann Foumlrderpreis Since 2012 she is the designing member of the stage-quartett Pop-Puumlree

shy

1114

Reiszlig-Schmidt Stephan

After studying architecture and urban planning at the RWTH Aachen and training as a town planner in Nordrhein-Westfalen the graduated engineer Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt completed the civil service examination as Bauassessor (state construction assessment) In the following years he worked as the head of the Gelsenkirchen Urban Planning Office and as head of the planning department at the Communal Association of the Ruhr Area Since 1996 the todayacutes City Director was the Head of the Department of Urban Management at the Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulation of the City of Munich and since 2000 he is the Chairman of the Commission Urban Development Planning at the Deutscher Staumldtetag (German Association of Cities) Since 2008 Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt is furthermore chairman of the Bavarian regional faction in the Deutsche Akademie fuumlr Staumldtebau und Landesplanung (German Academy of Urban Development and Regional Planning)

Flade Luise

Luise Flade graduated in urban and a regional planning (Berlin and Rome) her key activities lie in the field of urban event management public relations and communication work digital media and the city In 2006 she co-founded the network urbanophilnet ndash Network for urban culture eV and is there responsible for public relations communication and the organization of various projects like film events panel discussions and city walks She blogs about the association and lectures (amongst others at HU Berlin and Kassel University) about their possibilities to influence processes in urban development Luise Flade wrote her diploma thesis Digitales Stadtgedaumlchtnis Neukoumllln (Digital urban memory Neukoumllln) about digital maps and memory Luise was also a project leader in social neighborhood projects for example in Valparaiacuteso Chile and Berlin-Charlottenburg Currently she works for the Bund Deutscher Architekten (Association of German Architects) in the unit for press and communication

1214

Kern Maren

After studying both law and architecture Maren Kern worked as a lawyer at a well-respected lawyerrsquos office in Berlin and focused on private and public building law In 1990 she was appointed Legal advisor of the Umbrella Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Building Companies (BBU) and in 1993 Special Representative of the Board of Management of the BBU In this function she supported building companies in Berlin and the new federal states to cope with the heavy challenges of the German reunification In the end of 1998 Kern took on the management of the BBU-subsidiary Domus Consult Wirtschaftsberatungsgesellschaft mbH Since 2009 Maren Kern is member of the BBU-Board of Management In this position she heads the field of interest that represents the needs of the member companies in dealings with politics administration and the public In addition she is Member of the Board of Management of the BBA Academy of Real Estate Management in Berlin Member of the Supervisory Board of the BBT GmbH and member of many more organizations and committees of the housing and real estate economy

Gross Monika

Monika Gross holds a PhD and professorship in Biology In 2011 she took up office as President of the Berlin Beuth Technical University where she was already in 1992 appointed professor for cell and molecular biology (at that time Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin) Before she did research at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg and at the University of California (IrvineUSA) Besides her teaching and researching activity she got involved in academic administration For example she was a Member of the Academic Senate and of the Academic Assembly Between 1997 and 2003 Gross was the Vice President for Teaching and Learning In this time she institutionalized the universityrsquos quality management and initiated the introduction of the bachelor and masters degrees the program accreditation and the universityrsquos advanced training in didactics In the time between 2008 and her assumption of office in the universityrsquos executive committee she was dean of the faculty of Life Sciences and Technology

1314

Goula Kalypso

Kalypso Goula attended the American High School Anatolia in Thessaloniki Upon graduation in 1984 she studied Law at the Aristotle University where she earned her Bachelorrsquos Degree in Law in 1988 After she successfully passed her bar-exam she started practicing law in 1991 specializing in criminal civil and commercial law In 1995 she earned her Masterrsquos Degree in Commercial and Financial Law again from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki In 2008 she was elected member of the governing board of the Thessaloniki Bar Association In the municipal elections in 2010 she won a seat in the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki the second biggest city in Greece Since 2011 she has been appointed by the Mayor as Vice-Mayor responsible for social solidarity

Yalccedilıntan Murat

Murat Cemal Yalccedilıntan is a city planner a researcher and an activist He studied city and regional planning and conservation planning at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University He finished his PhD on the interrelation of globalisation local politics and planning decisions in İstanbul at the London School of Economics (1997-2005) Since he returned to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2002 to work as a lecturer he is associated professor and has been giving courses at graduate and post graduate levels such as Planning Studio Research Methods Globalisation and Urban Social Movements etc He also carried on administrative duties in the university such as the Head of the Regional Planning Unit and edited several publications He has been giving volunteer consultancy to the neighbourhood organisations since 2004 against forced eviction and forced renewalregeneration and has been part of civil initiatives that have been advocating the rights of the people in the neighbourhoods subject to regeneration and renewal

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Huning Sandra

Dr Sandra Huning studied spatial planning at Dortmund Technical University and at the University Pierre Mendegraves (France) Later she worked as a scientific assistant at the Berlin Institute for Social Research at the Institute of Sociology of the Technical University Berlin and at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Humanities She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate Research Program Berlin-New York Centre for Metropolitan Studies in Berlin Today Sandra Huning works as a scientific assistant at the faculty Urban and Region Sociology at Dortmund Technical University Furthermore she is a co-editor of the professional journal Planungsrundschau and amongst other she is member of the Berlin Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment During the winter term 201314 she holds a guest-professorship at the Berlin Humboldt Universityrsquos Institute for Geography

Muumlller Ines

Ines Muumlller studied sociology at Berlin Humboldt University She holds a diploma and works as a research assistant for the Institute for City Planning and Social Research Weeber+Partner since 1994 Since 1999 she is neighbourhood manager at High-Deck-SiedlungSonnenallee in Berlin-Neukoumllln Her field of work ranges from coordination of local practice including organisation and networking between social carriers and actors the development of an integrated action plan aiming at the involvement of residents She focuses on the development supervision and evaluation of projects dealing with different groups of actors and residents especially families from the arabic language area Turkey Southeast Europe and particularly Roma

814

Januszewski Uwe

Uwe Januszewski works since 1975 as civil servant at the administration of the State of Berlin initially at the District of Berlin-Tempelhof At present he works in the unit of the Gender Equality Representative of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment Between 1996 and 2010 he was member of the executive board from 2006 to 2010 chairman of the Main Staff Council of the State of Berlin

Schroumlder Anke

Anke Schroumlder PhD studied architecture and did her doctorate on Gender Mainstreaming and Housing at the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) She worked several years as a research assistant in the Department of Sociology of Planning and Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape at the LUH Since 2009 Schroumlder is a research assistant at the Lower Saxony State Investigation Department (LKA NI) and worked from 2009 to 2012 as project manager in the EUshyproject Planning urban Security ndash PluS Currently she works in the field of criminology research and statistics at the LKA NI and is the scientific project leader of the project Urban Safety funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Furthermore Schroumlder is a lecturer for the Sociology of Architecture at the LUH She represents the LKA in the Lower Saxony Partnership on Urban Safety and is an appointed member of the Women`s Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment in Berlin

914

Uken Sibylle

Sybille Uken living in Berlin is a graduated social economist and fully qualified lawyer She works as free-lance human resource and management consultant and as coach Since 2011 she is member of the Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Development and the Environment where her work focuses on mobility and traffic (especially mobility in the public space demography and mobility gender-equitable design of local public transport and public rail transport and social urban development) Moreover she is Chairwoman of the Committee of Experts of the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin where she is involved since many years

From 1999 to 2004 Sybille Uken was Member of the Supervisory Board of the Berlin Public Transportation Companies (BVG) and from 2002 to 2004 she the Economic Committee of the Supervisory Board Since 1972 she is engaged in several fields of voluntary work and was in 2002 awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her engagement in working with immigrant population

1014

CVs Respondents

Greve Katharina

Katharina Greve studied architecture at the Berlin Technical University Today she lives as comicdesigner cartoonist author and ex-architect in Berlin Apart from cartoons for the political satire magazin Titanic the daily newspapers Tagesspiegel (Berlin) and the Online-comic-portal electrocomicscom she published so far two graphic novels Ein Mann geht an die Decke (Die Biblyothek) ndash warded the ICOM Independent Comic Award category exceptional artwork ndash and Patchwork ndash Frau Doktor Waldbeck naumlht sich eine Familie (Guumltersloher Verlagshaus) In 2010 Katharina Greve was the first woman who was awarded the German Cartoon Award (Deutscher Cartoonpreis) for new talents in 2013 she was awarded the Sondermann Foumlrderpreis Since 2012 she is the designing member of the stage-quartett Pop-Puumlree

shy

1114

Reiszlig-Schmidt Stephan

After studying architecture and urban planning at the RWTH Aachen and training as a town planner in Nordrhein-Westfalen the graduated engineer Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt completed the civil service examination as Bauassessor (state construction assessment) In the following years he worked as the head of the Gelsenkirchen Urban Planning Office and as head of the planning department at the Communal Association of the Ruhr Area Since 1996 the todayacutes City Director was the Head of the Department of Urban Management at the Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulation of the City of Munich and since 2000 he is the Chairman of the Commission Urban Development Planning at the Deutscher Staumldtetag (German Association of Cities) Since 2008 Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt is furthermore chairman of the Bavarian regional faction in the Deutsche Akademie fuumlr Staumldtebau und Landesplanung (German Academy of Urban Development and Regional Planning)

Flade Luise

Luise Flade graduated in urban and a regional planning (Berlin and Rome) her key activities lie in the field of urban event management public relations and communication work digital media and the city In 2006 she co-founded the network urbanophilnet ndash Network for urban culture eV and is there responsible for public relations communication and the organization of various projects like film events panel discussions and city walks She blogs about the association and lectures (amongst others at HU Berlin and Kassel University) about their possibilities to influence processes in urban development Luise Flade wrote her diploma thesis Digitales Stadtgedaumlchtnis Neukoumllln (Digital urban memory Neukoumllln) about digital maps and memory Luise was also a project leader in social neighborhood projects for example in Valparaiacuteso Chile and Berlin-Charlottenburg Currently she works for the Bund Deutscher Architekten (Association of German Architects) in the unit for press and communication

1214

Kern Maren

After studying both law and architecture Maren Kern worked as a lawyer at a well-respected lawyerrsquos office in Berlin and focused on private and public building law In 1990 she was appointed Legal advisor of the Umbrella Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Building Companies (BBU) and in 1993 Special Representative of the Board of Management of the BBU In this function she supported building companies in Berlin and the new federal states to cope with the heavy challenges of the German reunification In the end of 1998 Kern took on the management of the BBU-subsidiary Domus Consult Wirtschaftsberatungsgesellschaft mbH Since 2009 Maren Kern is member of the BBU-Board of Management In this position she heads the field of interest that represents the needs of the member companies in dealings with politics administration and the public In addition she is Member of the Board of Management of the BBA Academy of Real Estate Management in Berlin Member of the Supervisory Board of the BBT GmbH and member of many more organizations and committees of the housing and real estate economy

Gross Monika

Monika Gross holds a PhD and professorship in Biology In 2011 she took up office as President of the Berlin Beuth Technical University where she was already in 1992 appointed professor for cell and molecular biology (at that time Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin) Before she did research at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg and at the University of California (IrvineUSA) Besides her teaching and researching activity she got involved in academic administration For example she was a Member of the Academic Senate and of the Academic Assembly Between 1997 and 2003 Gross was the Vice President for Teaching and Learning In this time she institutionalized the universityrsquos quality management and initiated the introduction of the bachelor and masters degrees the program accreditation and the universityrsquos advanced training in didactics In the time between 2008 and her assumption of office in the universityrsquos executive committee she was dean of the faculty of Life Sciences and Technology

1314

Goula Kalypso

Kalypso Goula attended the American High School Anatolia in Thessaloniki Upon graduation in 1984 she studied Law at the Aristotle University where she earned her Bachelorrsquos Degree in Law in 1988 After she successfully passed her bar-exam she started practicing law in 1991 specializing in criminal civil and commercial law In 1995 she earned her Masterrsquos Degree in Commercial and Financial Law again from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki In 2008 she was elected member of the governing board of the Thessaloniki Bar Association In the municipal elections in 2010 she won a seat in the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki the second biggest city in Greece Since 2011 she has been appointed by the Mayor as Vice-Mayor responsible for social solidarity

Yalccedilıntan Murat

Murat Cemal Yalccedilıntan is a city planner a researcher and an activist He studied city and regional planning and conservation planning at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University He finished his PhD on the interrelation of globalisation local politics and planning decisions in İstanbul at the London School of Economics (1997-2005) Since he returned to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2002 to work as a lecturer he is associated professor and has been giving courses at graduate and post graduate levels such as Planning Studio Research Methods Globalisation and Urban Social Movements etc He also carried on administrative duties in the university such as the Head of the Regional Planning Unit and edited several publications He has been giving volunteer consultancy to the neighbourhood organisations since 2004 against forced eviction and forced renewalregeneration and has been part of civil initiatives that have been advocating the rights of the people in the neighbourhoods subject to regeneration and renewal

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Januszewski Uwe

Uwe Januszewski works since 1975 as civil servant at the administration of the State of Berlin initially at the District of Berlin-Tempelhof At present he works in the unit of the Gender Equality Representative of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment Between 1996 and 2010 he was member of the executive board from 2006 to 2010 chairman of the Main Staff Council of the State of Berlin

Schroumlder Anke

Anke Schroumlder PhD studied architecture and did her doctorate on Gender Mainstreaming and Housing at the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) She worked several years as a research assistant in the Department of Sociology of Planning and Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape at the LUH Since 2009 Schroumlder is a research assistant at the Lower Saxony State Investigation Department (LKA NI) and worked from 2009 to 2012 as project manager in the EUshyproject Planning urban Security ndash PluS Currently she works in the field of criminology research and statistics at the LKA NI and is the scientific project leader of the project Urban Safety funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Furthermore Schroumlder is a lecturer for the Sociology of Architecture at the LUH She represents the LKA in the Lower Saxony Partnership on Urban Safety and is an appointed member of the Women`s Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment in Berlin

914

Uken Sibylle

Sybille Uken living in Berlin is a graduated social economist and fully qualified lawyer She works as free-lance human resource and management consultant and as coach Since 2011 she is member of the Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Development and the Environment where her work focuses on mobility and traffic (especially mobility in the public space demography and mobility gender-equitable design of local public transport and public rail transport and social urban development) Moreover she is Chairwoman of the Committee of Experts of the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin where she is involved since many years

From 1999 to 2004 Sybille Uken was Member of the Supervisory Board of the Berlin Public Transportation Companies (BVG) and from 2002 to 2004 she the Economic Committee of the Supervisory Board Since 1972 she is engaged in several fields of voluntary work and was in 2002 awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her engagement in working with immigrant population

1014

CVs Respondents

Greve Katharina

Katharina Greve studied architecture at the Berlin Technical University Today she lives as comicdesigner cartoonist author and ex-architect in Berlin Apart from cartoons for the political satire magazin Titanic the daily newspapers Tagesspiegel (Berlin) and the Online-comic-portal electrocomicscom she published so far two graphic novels Ein Mann geht an die Decke (Die Biblyothek) ndash warded the ICOM Independent Comic Award category exceptional artwork ndash and Patchwork ndash Frau Doktor Waldbeck naumlht sich eine Familie (Guumltersloher Verlagshaus) In 2010 Katharina Greve was the first woman who was awarded the German Cartoon Award (Deutscher Cartoonpreis) for new talents in 2013 she was awarded the Sondermann Foumlrderpreis Since 2012 she is the designing member of the stage-quartett Pop-Puumlree

shy

1114

Reiszlig-Schmidt Stephan

After studying architecture and urban planning at the RWTH Aachen and training as a town planner in Nordrhein-Westfalen the graduated engineer Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt completed the civil service examination as Bauassessor (state construction assessment) In the following years he worked as the head of the Gelsenkirchen Urban Planning Office and as head of the planning department at the Communal Association of the Ruhr Area Since 1996 the todayacutes City Director was the Head of the Department of Urban Management at the Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulation of the City of Munich and since 2000 he is the Chairman of the Commission Urban Development Planning at the Deutscher Staumldtetag (German Association of Cities) Since 2008 Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt is furthermore chairman of the Bavarian regional faction in the Deutsche Akademie fuumlr Staumldtebau und Landesplanung (German Academy of Urban Development and Regional Planning)

Flade Luise

Luise Flade graduated in urban and a regional planning (Berlin and Rome) her key activities lie in the field of urban event management public relations and communication work digital media and the city In 2006 she co-founded the network urbanophilnet ndash Network for urban culture eV and is there responsible for public relations communication and the organization of various projects like film events panel discussions and city walks She blogs about the association and lectures (amongst others at HU Berlin and Kassel University) about their possibilities to influence processes in urban development Luise Flade wrote her diploma thesis Digitales Stadtgedaumlchtnis Neukoumllln (Digital urban memory Neukoumllln) about digital maps and memory Luise was also a project leader in social neighborhood projects for example in Valparaiacuteso Chile and Berlin-Charlottenburg Currently she works for the Bund Deutscher Architekten (Association of German Architects) in the unit for press and communication

1214

Kern Maren

After studying both law and architecture Maren Kern worked as a lawyer at a well-respected lawyerrsquos office in Berlin and focused on private and public building law In 1990 she was appointed Legal advisor of the Umbrella Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Building Companies (BBU) and in 1993 Special Representative of the Board of Management of the BBU In this function she supported building companies in Berlin and the new federal states to cope with the heavy challenges of the German reunification In the end of 1998 Kern took on the management of the BBU-subsidiary Domus Consult Wirtschaftsberatungsgesellschaft mbH Since 2009 Maren Kern is member of the BBU-Board of Management In this position she heads the field of interest that represents the needs of the member companies in dealings with politics administration and the public In addition she is Member of the Board of Management of the BBA Academy of Real Estate Management in Berlin Member of the Supervisory Board of the BBT GmbH and member of many more organizations and committees of the housing and real estate economy

Gross Monika

Monika Gross holds a PhD and professorship in Biology In 2011 she took up office as President of the Berlin Beuth Technical University where she was already in 1992 appointed professor for cell and molecular biology (at that time Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin) Before she did research at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg and at the University of California (IrvineUSA) Besides her teaching and researching activity she got involved in academic administration For example she was a Member of the Academic Senate and of the Academic Assembly Between 1997 and 2003 Gross was the Vice President for Teaching and Learning In this time she institutionalized the universityrsquos quality management and initiated the introduction of the bachelor and masters degrees the program accreditation and the universityrsquos advanced training in didactics In the time between 2008 and her assumption of office in the universityrsquos executive committee she was dean of the faculty of Life Sciences and Technology

1314

Goula Kalypso

Kalypso Goula attended the American High School Anatolia in Thessaloniki Upon graduation in 1984 she studied Law at the Aristotle University where she earned her Bachelorrsquos Degree in Law in 1988 After she successfully passed her bar-exam she started practicing law in 1991 specializing in criminal civil and commercial law In 1995 she earned her Masterrsquos Degree in Commercial and Financial Law again from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki In 2008 she was elected member of the governing board of the Thessaloniki Bar Association In the municipal elections in 2010 she won a seat in the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki the second biggest city in Greece Since 2011 she has been appointed by the Mayor as Vice-Mayor responsible for social solidarity

Yalccedilıntan Murat

Murat Cemal Yalccedilıntan is a city planner a researcher and an activist He studied city and regional planning and conservation planning at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University He finished his PhD on the interrelation of globalisation local politics and planning decisions in İstanbul at the London School of Economics (1997-2005) Since he returned to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2002 to work as a lecturer he is associated professor and has been giving courses at graduate and post graduate levels such as Planning Studio Research Methods Globalisation and Urban Social Movements etc He also carried on administrative duties in the university such as the Head of the Regional Planning Unit and edited several publications He has been giving volunteer consultancy to the neighbourhood organisations since 2004 against forced eviction and forced renewalregeneration and has been part of civil initiatives that have been advocating the rights of the people in the neighbourhoods subject to regeneration and renewal

1414

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Uken Sibylle

Sybille Uken living in Berlin is a graduated social economist and fully qualified lawyer She works as free-lance human resource and management consultant and as coach Since 2011 she is member of the Womenacutes Advisory Council of the Senate Department for Development and the Environment where her work focuses on mobility and traffic (especially mobility in the public space demography and mobility gender-equitable design of local public transport and public rail transport and social urban development) Moreover she is Chairwoman of the Committee of Experts of the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin where she is involved since many years

From 1999 to 2004 Sybille Uken was Member of the Supervisory Board of the Berlin Public Transportation Companies (BVG) and from 2002 to 2004 she the Economic Committee of the Supervisory Board Since 1972 she is engaged in several fields of voluntary work and was in 2002 awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her engagement in working with immigrant population

1014

CVs Respondents

Greve Katharina

Katharina Greve studied architecture at the Berlin Technical University Today she lives as comicdesigner cartoonist author and ex-architect in Berlin Apart from cartoons for the political satire magazin Titanic the daily newspapers Tagesspiegel (Berlin) and the Online-comic-portal electrocomicscom she published so far two graphic novels Ein Mann geht an die Decke (Die Biblyothek) ndash warded the ICOM Independent Comic Award category exceptional artwork ndash and Patchwork ndash Frau Doktor Waldbeck naumlht sich eine Familie (Guumltersloher Verlagshaus) In 2010 Katharina Greve was the first woman who was awarded the German Cartoon Award (Deutscher Cartoonpreis) for new talents in 2013 she was awarded the Sondermann Foumlrderpreis Since 2012 she is the designing member of the stage-quartett Pop-Puumlree

shy

1114

Reiszlig-Schmidt Stephan

After studying architecture and urban planning at the RWTH Aachen and training as a town planner in Nordrhein-Westfalen the graduated engineer Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt completed the civil service examination as Bauassessor (state construction assessment) In the following years he worked as the head of the Gelsenkirchen Urban Planning Office and as head of the planning department at the Communal Association of the Ruhr Area Since 1996 the todayacutes City Director was the Head of the Department of Urban Management at the Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulation of the City of Munich and since 2000 he is the Chairman of the Commission Urban Development Planning at the Deutscher Staumldtetag (German Association of Cities) Since 2008 Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt is furthermore chairman of the Bavarian regional faction in the Deutsche Akademie fuumlr Staumldtebau und Landesplanung (German Academy of Urban Development and Regional Planning)

Flade Luise

Luise Flade graduated in urban and a regional planning (Berlin and Rome) her key activities lie in the field of urban event management public relations and communication work digital media and the city In 2006 she co-founded the network urbanophilnet ndash Network for urban culture eV and is there responsible for public relations communication and the organization of various projects like film events panel discussions and city walks She blogs about the association and lectures (amongst others at HU Berlin and Kassel University) about their possibilities to influence processes in urban development Luise Flade wrote her diploma thesis Digitales Stadtgedaumlchtnis Neukoumllln (Digital urban memory Neukoumllln) about digital maps and memory Luise was also a project leader in social neighborhood projects for example in Valparaiacuteso Chile and Berlin-Charlottenburg Currently she works for the Bund Deutscher Architekten (Association of German Architects) in the unit for press and communication

1214

Kern Maren

After studying both law and architecture Maren Kern worked as a lawyer at a well-respected lawyerrsquos office in Berlin and focused on private and public building law In 1990 she was appointed Legal advisor of the Umbrella Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Building Companies (BBU) and in 1993 Special Representative of the Board of Management of the BBU In this function she supported building companies in Berlin and the new federal states to cope with the heavy challenges of the German reunification In the end of 1998 Kern took on the management of the BBU-subsidiary Domus Consult Wirtschaftsberatungsgesellschaft mbH Since 2009 Maren Kern is member of the BBU-Board of Management In this position she heads the field of interest that represents the needs of the member companies in dealings with politics administration and the public In addition she is Member of the Board of Management of the BBA Academy of Real Estate Management in Berlin Member of the Supervisory Board of the BBT GmbH and member of many more organizations and committees of the housing and real estate economy

Gross Monika

Monika Gross holds a PhD and professorship in Biology In 2011 she took up office as President of the Berlin Beuth Technical University where she was already in 1992 appointed professor for cell and molecular biology (at that time Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin) Before she did research at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg and at the University of California (IrvineUSA) Besides her teaching and researching activity she got involved in academic administration For example she was a Member of the Academic Senate and of the Academic Assembly Between 1997 and 2003 Gross was the Vice President for Teaching and Learning In this time she institutionalized the universityrsquos quality management and initiated the introduction of the bachelor and masters degrees the program accreditation and the universityrsquos advanced training in didactics In the time between 2008 and her assumption of office in the universityrsquos executive committee she was dean of the faculty of Life Sciences and Technology

1314

Goula Kalypso

Kalypso Goula attended the American High School Anatolia in Thessaloniki Upon graduation in 1984 she studied Law at the Aristotle University where she earned her Bachelorrsquos Degree in Law in 1988 After she successfully passed her bar-exam she started practicing law in 1991 specializing in criminal civil and commercial law In 1995 she earned her Masterrsquos Degree in Commercial and Financial Law again from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki In 2008 she was elected member of the governing board of the Thessaloniki Bar Association In the municipal elections in 2010 she won a seat in the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki the second biggest city in Greece Since 2011 she has been appointed by the Mayor as Vice-Mayor responsible for social solidarity

Yalccedilıntan Murat

Murat Cemal Yalccedilıntan is a city planner a researcher and an activist He studied city and regional planning and conservation planning at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University He finished his PhD on the interrelation of globalisation local politics and planning decisions in İstanbul at the London School of Economics (1997-2005) Since he returned to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2002 to work as a lecturer he is associated professor and has been giving courses at graduate and post graduate levels such as Planning Studio Research Methods Globalisation and Urban Social Movements etc He also carried on administrative duties in the university such as the Head of the Regional Planning Unit and edited several publications He has been giving volunteer consultancy to the neighbourhood organisations since 2004 against forced eviction and forced renewalregeneration and has been part of civil initiatives that have been advocating the rights of the people in the neighbourhoods subject to regeneration and renewal

1414

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CVs Respondents

Greve Katharina

Katharina Greve studied architecture at the Berlin Technical University Today she lives as comicdesigner cartoonist author and ex-architect in Berlin Apart from cartoons for the political satire magazin Titanic the daily newspapers Tagesspiegel (Berlin) and the Online-comic-portal electrocomicscom she published so far two graphic novels Ein Mann geht an die Decke (Die Biblyothek) ndash warded the ICOM Independent Comic Award category exceptional artwork ndash and Patchwork ndash Frau Doktor Waldbeck naumlht sich eine Familie (Guumltersloher Verlagshaus) In 2010 Katharina Greve was the first woman who was awarded the German Cartoon Award (Deutscher Cartoonpreis) for new talents in 2013 she was awarded the Sondermann Foumlrderpreis Since 2012 she is the designing member of the stage-quartett Pop-Puumlree

shy

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Reiszlig-Schmidt Stephan

After studying architecture and urban planning at the RWTH Aachen and training as a town planner in Nordrhein-Westfalen the graduated engineer Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt completed the civil service examination as Bauassessor (state construction assessment) In the following years he worked as the head of the Gelsenkirchen Urban Planning Office and as head of the planning department at the Communal Association of the Ruhr Area Since 1996 the todayacutes City Director was the Head of the Department of Urban Management at the Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulation of the City of Munich and since 2000 he is the Chairman of the Commission Urban Development Planning at the Deutscher Staumldtetag (German Association of Cities) Since 2008 Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt is furthermore chairman of the Bavarian regional faction in the Deutsche Akademie fuumlr Staumldtebau und Landesplanung (German Academy of Urban Development and Regional Planning)

Flade Luise

Luise Flade graduated in urban and a regional planning (Berlin and Rome) her key activities lie in the field of urban event management public relations and communication work digital media and the city In 2006 she co-founded the network urbanophilnet ndash Network for urban culture eV and is there responsible for public relations communication and the organization of various projects like film events panel discussions and city walks She blogs about the association and lectures (amongst others at HU Berlin and Kassel University) about their possibilities to influence processes in urban development Luise Flade wrote her diploma thesis Digitales Stadtgedaumlchtnis Neukoumllln (Digital urban memory Neukoumllln) about digital maps and memory Luise was also a project leader in social neighborhood projects for example in Valparaiacuteso Chile and Berlin-Charlottenburg Currently she works for the Bund Deutscher Architekten (Association of German Architects) in the unit for press and communication

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Kern Maren

After studying both law and architecture Maren Kern worked as a lawyer at a well-respected lawyerrsquos office in Berlin and focused on private and public building law In 1990 she was appointed Legal advisor of the Umbrella Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Building Companies (BBU) and in 1993 Special Representative of the Board of Management of the BBU In this function she supported building companies in Berlin and the new federal states to cope with the heavy challenges of the German reunification In the end of 1998 Kern took on the management of the BBU-subsidiary Domus Consult Wirtschaftsberatungsgesellschaft mbH Since 2009 Maren Kern is member of the BBU-Board of Management In this position she heads the field of interest that represents the needs of the member companies in dealings with politics administration and the public In addition she is Member of the Board of Management of the BBA Academy of Real Estate Management in Berlin Member of the Supervisory Board of the BBT GmbH and member of many more organizations and committees of the housing and real estate economy

Gross Monika

Monika Gross holds a PhD and professorship in Biology In 2011 she took up office as President of the Berlin Beuth Technical University where she was already in 1992 appointed professor for cell and molecular biology (at that time Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin) Before she did research at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg and at the University of California (IrvineUSA) Besides her teaching and researching activity she got involved in academic administration For example she was a Member of the Academic Senate and of the Academic Assembly Between 1997 and 2003 Gross was the Vice President for Teaching and Learning In this time she institutionalized the universityrsquos quality management and initiated the introduction of the bachelor and masters degrees the program accreditation and the universityrsquos advanced training in didactics In the time between 2008 and her assumption of office in the universityrsquos executive committee she was dean of the faculty of Life Sciences and Technology

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Goula Kalypso

Kalypso Goula attended the American High School Anatolia in Thessaloniki Upon graduation in 1984 she studied Law at the Aristotle University where she earned her Bachelorrsquos Degree in Law in 1988 After she successfully passed her bar-exam she started practicing law in 1991 specializing in criminal civil and commercial law In 1995 she earned her Masterrsquos Degree in Commercial and Financial Law again from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki In 2008 she was elected member of the governing board of the Thessaloniki Bar Association In the municipal elections in 2010 she won a seat in the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki the second biggest city in Greece Since 2011 she has been appointed by the Mayor as Vice-Mayor responsible for social solidarity

Yalccedilıntan Murat

Murat Cemal Yalccedilıntan is a city planner a researcher and an activist He studied city and regional planning and conservation planning at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University He finished his PhD on the interrelation of globalisation local politics and planning decisions in İstanbul at the London School of Economics (1997-2005) Since he returned to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2002 to work as a lecturer he is associated professor and has been giving courses at graduate and post graduate levels such as Planning Studio Research Methods Globalisation and Urban Social Movements etc He also carried on administrative duties in the university such as the Head of the Regional Planning Unit and edited several publications He has been giving volunteer consultancy to the neighbourhood organisations since 2004 against forced eviction and forced renewalregeneration and has been part of civil initiatives that have been advocating the rights of the people in the neighbourhoods subject to regeneration and renewal

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Reiszlig-Schmidt Stephan

After studying architecture and urban planning at the RWTH Aachen and training as a town planner in Nordrhein-Westfalen the graduated engineer Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt completed the civil service examination as Bauassessor (state construction assessment) In the following years he worked as the head of the Gelsenkirchen Urban Planning Office and as head of the planning department at the Communal Association of the Ruhr Area Since 1996 the todayacutes City Director was the Head of the Department of Urban Management at the Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulation of the City of Munich and since 2000 he is the Chairman of the Commission Urban Development Planning at the Deutscher Staumldtetag (German Association of Cities) Since 2008 Stephan Reiszlig-Schmidt is furthermore chairman of the Bavarian regional faction in the Deutsche Akademie fuumlr Staumldtebau und Landesplanung (German Academy of Urban Development and Regional Planning)

Flade Luise

Luise Flade graduated in urban and a regional planning (Berlin and Rome) her key activities lie in the field of urban event management public relations and communication work digital media and the city In 2006 she co-founded the network urbanophilnet ndash Network for urban culture eV and is there responsible for public relations communication and the organization of various projects like film events panel discussions and city walks She blogs about the association and lectures (amongst others at HU Berlin and Kassel University) about their possibilities to influence processes in urban development Luise Flade wrote her diploma thesis Digitales Stadtgedaumlchtnis Neukoumllln (Digital urban memory Neukoumllln) about digital maps and memory Luise was also a project leader in social neighborhood projects for example in Valparaiacuteso Chile and Berlin-Charlottenburg Currently she works for the Bund Deutscher Architekten (Association of German Architects) in the unit for press and communication

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Kern Maren

After studying both law and architecture Maren Kern worked as a lawyer at a well-respected lawyerrsquos office in Berlin and focused on private and public building law In 1990 she was appointed Legal advisor of the Umbrella Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Building Companies (BBU) and in 1993 Special Representative of the Board of Management of the BBU In this function she supported building companies in Berlin and the new federal states to cope with the heavy challenges of the German reunification In the end of 1998 Kern took on the management of the BBU-subsidiary Domus Consult Wirtschaftsberatungsgesellschaft mbH Since 2009 Maren Kern is member of the BBU-Board of Management In this position she heads the field of interest that represents the needs of the member companies in dealings with politics administration and the public In addition she is Member of the Board of Management of the BBA Academy of Real Estate Management in Berlin Member of the Supervisory Board of the BBT GmbH and member of many more organizations and committees of the housing and real estate economy

Gross Monika

Monika Gross holds a PhD and professorship in Biology In 2011 she took up office as President of the Berlin Beuth Technical University where she was already in 1992 appointed professor for cell and molecular biology (at that time Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin) Before she did research at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg and at the University of California (IrvineUSA) Besides her teaching and researching activity she got involved in academic administration For example she was a Member of the Academic Senate and of the Academic Assembly Between 1997 and 2003 Gross was the Vice President for Teaching and Learning In this time she institutionalized the universityrsquos quality management and initiated the introduction of the bachelor and masters degrees the program accreditation and the universityrsquos advanced training in didactics In the time between 2008 and her assumption of office in the universityrsquos executive committee she was dean of the faculty of Life Sciences and Technology

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Goula Kalypso

Kalypso Goula attended the American High School Anatolia in Thessaloniki Upon graduation in 1984 she studied Law at the Aristotle University where she earned her Bachelorrsquos Degree in Law in 1988 After she successfully passed her bar-exam she started practicing law in 1991 specializing in criminal civil and commercial law In 1995 she earned her Masterrsquos Degree in Commercial and Financial Law again from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki In 2008 she was elected member of the governing board of the Thessaloniki Bar Association In the municipal elections in 2010 she won a seat in the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki the second biggest city in Greece Since 2011 she has been appointed by the Mayor as Vice-Mayor responsible for social solidarity

Yalccedilıntan Murat

Murat Cemal Yalccedilıntan is a city planner a researcher and an activist He studied city and regional planning and conservation planning at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University He finished his PhD on the interrelation of globalisation local politics and planning decisions in İstanbul at the London School of Economics (1997-2005) Since he returned to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2002 to work as a lecturer he is associated professor and has been giving courses at graduate and post graduate levels such as Planning Studio Research Methods Globalisation and Urban Social Movements etc He also carried on administrative duties in the university such as the Head of the Regional Planning Unit and edited several publications He has been giving volunteer consultancy to the neighbourhood organisations since 2004 against forced eviction and forced renewalregeneration and has been part of civil initiatives that have been advocating the rights of the people in the neighbourhoods subject to regeneration and renewal

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Kern Maren

After studying both law and architecture Maren Kern worked as a lawyer at a well-respected lawyerrsquos office in Berlin and focused on private and public building law In 1990 she was appointed Legal advisor of the Umbrella Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Building Companies (BBU) and in 1993 Special Representative of the Board of Management of the BBU In this function she supported building companies in Berlin and the new federal states to cope with the heavy challenges of the German reunification In the end of 1998 Kern took on the management of the BBU-subsidiary Domus Consult Wirtschaftsberatungsgesellschaft mbH Since 2009 Maren Kern is member of the BBU-Board of Management In this position she heads the field of interest that represents the needs of the member companies in dealings with politics administration and the public In addition she is Member of the Board of Management of the BBA Academy of Real Estate Management in Berlin Member of the Supervisory Board of the BBT GmbH and member of many more organizations and committees of the housing and real estate economy

Gross Monika

Monika Gross holds a PhD and professorship in Biology In 2011 she took up office as President of the Berlin Beuth Technical University where she was already in 1992 appointed professor for cell and molecular biology (at that time Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin) Before she did research at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg and at the University of California (IrvineUSA) Besides her teaching and researching activity she got involved in academic administration For example she was a Member of the Academic Senate and of the Academic Assembly Between 1997 and 2003 Gross was the Vice President for Teaching and Learning In this time she institutionalized the universityrsquos quality management and initiated the introduction of the bachelor and masters degrees the program accreditation and the universityrsquos advanced training in didactics In the time between 2008 and her assumption of office in the universityrsquos executive committee she was dean of the faculty of Life Sciences and Technology

1314

Goula Kalypso

Kalypso Goula attended the American High School Anatolia in Thessaloniki Upon graduation in 1984 she studied Law at the Aristotle University where she earned her Bachelorrsquos Degree in Law in 1988 After she successfully passed her bar-exam she started practicing law in 1991 specializing in criminal civil and commercial law In 1995 she earned her Masterrsquos Degree in Commercial and Financial Law again from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki In 2008 she was elected member of the governing board of the Thessaloniki Bar Association In the municipal elections in 2010 she won a seat in the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki the second biggest city in Greece Since 2011 she has been appointed by the Mayor as Vice-Mayor responsible for social solidarity

Yalccedilıntan Murat

Murat Cemal Yalccedilıntan is a city planner a researcher and an activist He studied city and regional planning and conservation planning at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University He finished his PhD on the interrelation of globalisation local politics and planning decisions in İstanbul at the London School of Economics (1997-2005) Since he returned to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2002 to work as a lecturer he is associated professor and has been giving courses at graduate and post graduate levels such as Planning Studio Research Methods Globalisation and Urban Social Movements etc He also carried on administrative duties in the university such as the Head of the Regional Planning Unit and edited several publications He has been giving volunteer consultancy to the neighbourhood organisations since 2004 against forced eviction and forced renewalregeneration and has been part of civil initiatives that have been advocating the rights of the people in the neighbourhoods subject to regeneration and renewal

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Goula Kalypso

Kalypso Goula attended the American High School Anatolia in Thessaloniki Upon graduation in 1984 she studied Law at the Aristotle University where she earned her Bachelorrsquos Degree in Law in 1988 After she successfully passed her bar-exam she started practicing law in 1991 specializing in criminal civil and commercial law In 1995 she earned her Masterrsquos Degree in Commercial and Financial Law again from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki In 2008 she was elected member of the governing board of the Thessaloniki Bar Association In the municipal elections in 2010 she won a seat in the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki the second biggest city in Greece Since 2011 she has been appointed by the Mayor as Vice-Mayor responsible for social solidarity

Yalccedilıntan Murat

Murat Cemal Yalccedilıntan is a city planner a researcher and an activist He studied city and regional planning and conservation planning at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University He finished his PhD on the interrelation of globalisation local politics and planning decisions in İstanbul at the London School of Economics (1997-2005) Since he returned to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2002 to work as a lecturer he is associated professor and has been giving courses at graduate and post graduate levels such as Planning Studio Research Methods Globalisation and Urban Social Movements etc He also carried on administrative duties in the university such as the Head of the Regional Planning Unit and edited several publications He has been giving volunteer consultancy to the neighbourhood organisations since 2004 against forced eviction and forced renewalregeneration and has been part of civil initiatives that have been advocating the rights of the people in the neighbourhoods subject to regeneration and renewal

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