Matthias Nohn

Matt is an urban economist and development planner with over 20 years of work experience in more than 40 countries. He provides high-level strategic advice for climate-smart, inclusive, and fiscally responsible urbanization solutions for clients such as the UN, World Bank, EU, GIZ/KFW, and civic and private sector organizations (e.g., Gates Foundation, C40). As the CEO of the Initiative for Advanced Urbanization and Artificial Intelligence and as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard, he advances the Rapid Urbanism Framework for addressing the land, location, infrastructure, housing, livelihood, mobility, and environment conundrum. He holds postgraduate degrees in Advanced Environmental Design (Harvard), Public Policy and Macroeconomics (Harvard), International Affairs (German National Merit Foundation), and Architecture & Planning (TU Darmstadt).