About the Speaker
Ronald Wall is an economic geographer and urban planner who has worked for various urban planning offices, governmental organizations and academic institutions. He is head of the economic geography department at the IHS / Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He specializes in economic network analysis e.g trade and investment flows between cities. Wall has worked on projects in Africa, The Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Over the past 15 years, the central focus of his work has been the development of resilient urban planning based on interdisciplinary collaboration and by understanding the local, regional and global network characteristics of cities. He has worked with architects, scientists, policymakers and academics – and won various architectural prizes, been awarded several research grants and published in leading journals. Wall lectures at a variety of urban planning and economics schools.